Monica Mendel Bensoussan is a member of Wexner Heritage Montreal 09 group. She is an involved member of the Montreal Jewish community through her work with the Bronfman Jewish Education Center, United Talmud Torah and Herzliah High School and the Akiva School.  Monica can be reached at ben@videotron.ca. I experienced a simple, personal and intensely profound leadership moment years ago while serving as chair of my children’s elementary school Yearbook

Rachel Isaacs is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program.  She is a fourth year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is the rabbinic intern at the Park Slope Jewish Center.  She can be reached at risaacs@alum.wellesley.edu I am the type of person who likes large stages and grand gestures.  As a general rule, I compensate for the shortness of my stature with the volume of

Jonathan Gribetz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, and the Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Next year, he will be the Ray D. Wolfe Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.  Jonathan can be reached at gribetz@post.harvard.edu We met Yosef at a small synagogue in Istanbul a few years back.  There were just eighteen people

Nessa Liben is a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar alumnus, FEREP Scholar alumnus, and recent graduate of the NYU Dual Degree program in Nonprofit Management and Judaic Studies.  She can be reached at Nessa.Liben@gmail.com On purim night, I joined a dozen octogenarians for a conveniently located megilla reading at my neighbors’ apartment across the hall.  My neighbors have been married for almost 50 years, during which they have experienced both the