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Geoffrey Lewis, an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program from Boston, is an attorney; he is active in numerous Jewish communal organizations and is involved in a variety of business activities in Israel. He can be reached at GHLewis@plgt.com Vayechi, translated “and he lived,” paradoxically records the last years and death of the Patriarch Jacob. Having lived in Egypt for 17 years, Jacob, at the end of his life, calls
Elisa Spungen Bildner is an alumna of Wexner Heritage from MetroWest. She is a member of the Wexner Heritage Alumni Council and she and her husband Rob, also a Wexner Heritage alumnus, are founders of the Foundation for Jewish Camping. Elisa was one of ten women honored by Jewish Women International in Washington, DC last week. Tucked away in the chaos that is my closet, in a white felt jewelry
Dec 2007
Naomi Katz-Lulav is Senior Deputy to the State Attorney in the Israeli Ministry of Justice, and an alumna of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program. She is a participant in the Kolot program, aimed at bringing religious and non-religious Israelis together, and has given lectures abroad regarding Israel-Diaspora connections and the Jewish Identity of the Jewish state. She is currently on her first maternity leave, at home with her seven-month old son, Elisha
Dec 2007
Evan Segal, a current Wexner Heritage Member from Pittsburgh, is the Chairman of the Florence Melton Communiteen High School, a member of Hillel Board of Governors & Directors, and active with the UJF Pittsburgh, Community Day School & AIPAC. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the CMU Tepper Graduate School of Business. He can be reached at evanjsegal@aol.com One of the biggest issues confronting us today is Jewish Continuity. In
Dec 2007
Shira Levine is a member of the Wexner Heritage Program San Francisco 06 group. She is the Community Marketing Director for Prosper.com, an online person-to-person lending platform. Shira can be reached at shira_levine@yahoo.com. In 1993, I had the opportunity to travel with a Hillel program called Bridges of Understanding to Austria to forge relationships between young American Jews and our Austrian non-Jewish peers. Before the trip, I was just another
Dec 2007
Evan Segal, a current Wexner Heritage Member from Pittsburgh, is the Chairman of the Florence Melton Communiteen High School, a member of Hillel Board of Governors & Directors, and active with the UJF Pittsburgh, Community Day School & AIPAC. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the CMU Tepper Graduate School of Business. He can be reached at evanjsegal@aol.com One of the biggest issues confronting us today is Jewish Continuity. In
Nov 2007
Hearing the Call of Torah By Howard Steiermann July 25, 2007 Howard Steiermann, a San Francisco Wexner Heritage alumnus, is motivated by his experiences as a son of German refugees, as a gay man, and by trying to find a great-tasting, low-fat, chocolate chip cookie. He is past Board President of the Brandeis-Hillel Day School, has served on numerous Jewish and Community boards and was the 2000 recipient of the
Nov 2007
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Program. He is the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University, where he is Vice President. He is the author of 6 books, most recently Gift of Soul, Gift of Wisdom: Spiritual Resources for Leadership and Mentoring. Rabbi Artson can be reached at www.bradartson.com Our Judaism is not merely learned. It is lived.
Nov 2007
Rabbi Jordan Millstein, an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, serves Temple Emanuel of Worcester, MA. He can be reached at rabbijbm@aol.com “What should I call you?” It is among the most common questions a rabbi gets when he/she meets a congregant or visitor to the congregation for the first time. Invariably, when I am asked this question it triggers in my mind a series of old, bad jokes:
Nov 2007
Israel at the UN: Because Words Matter By Hillel Neuer July 18, 2007 Hillel Neuer is executive director of UN Watch in Geneva, an organization that monitors the UN according to the principles of its charter and stands at the forefront of combating anti-semitism at the UN. Formerly with the law firm of Paul Weiss in New York, Hillel routinely testifies before the UN Human Rights Council and other UN