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Dec 2017
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Nina Butler, WGF Alum (Class 8), on her new position at Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Eric S. Kassoff, WHP Alum (Washington DC 03), on earning the AJC Washington 2017 Civic Achievement Award. Tziona Koenig-Yair, WIF Alum (Class 24), on her appointment as the new Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Ann Luban, WGF Alum (Class 4), on earning her degree as Doctor of Jewish Nonprofit Management (honoris
Dec 2017
The Wexner Heritage Program Montreal 17 Members held their first annual family Chanukah party. This was our opportunity to meet each other’s children and families and enjoy Chanukah together. After our fall session of learning, we have come together as a group in friendship and in leadership. For our Chanukah celebration, we all purchased new clothes to be donated to the local Jewish women's shelter and we were so happy
Dec 2017
The views expressed in this blog does not necessarily reflect those of The Wexner Foundation. Poland is complicated. Since returning from a week in and around Warsaw and Krakow last summer, I’ve found that I can’t describe the trip without first establishing this basic fact. A few months ago, I was among eight Jewish leaders from Phoenix, Los Angeles and Seattle who travelled to Poland together as guests of the
Dec 2017
President Trump’s announcement about the intended relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and his acknowledgement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has sparked the gamut of reactions in the Jewish and Israeli world. For many it is an unnecessary reflection of an evident truth, for others a long overdue recognition, and for others still, a provocative gamble. We welcome the reactions of the Wexner network and ask you
Reposted with thanks to ejewishphilanthropy.com The teamwork among clergy, teachers, directors of education, administrators, and lay leaders was on full display at Congregation Beth Israel, a large Reform congregation in Houston, Texas, during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. While Beth Israel itself was flooded with over 600,000 gallons of water, The Shlenker School, located on the same campus, did not suffer major flooding. The school, which houses over three hundred
Dec 2017
The following d'var torah set the tone for one of our days at the Wexner Summit on Civil Discourse, which brought together close to 60 of our alumni dedicated to raising the level of dialogue across difference in the North American Jewish Community and Israel. A few months ago I started a new job as Dean of Students in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. I am responsible for the learning
Dec 2017
Kislev. Last shabbat and this shabbat -- the two that come in the earliest in the year --just after 4 pm. Literally, the darkest time of year. The Torah begins with the creation of light, but the sun and moon were not created until the fourth day. Our sages explain this discrepancy by suggesting that the light that was created with the first utterance was not the light of the
On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the ratification of the UN Partition Plan, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has launched Settlements and Solutions, a first-of-its-kind interactive mapping tool that clarifies the reality of West Bank demography — both Israeli and Palestinian — in unprecedented detail. It is as fact-based, neutral, in-depth and easy-to-use as any resource I've seen. Therefore, I wanted to share it with the
The cobblestone streets of the medieval Swiss town of Zug were filled with the marching band’s drumbeats, the flag bearers’ footsteps and the exuberant conversations of faith leaders from around the world. The grand procession marked the end of the three-day Faith In Finance Summit, and the release of the “Zug Guidelines on Faith-Consistent Investing,” prepared by representatives of eight major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto and
A group of Wexner Israel Fellowship alumni recently accompanied the Mengistu family to Los Angeles, Washington and New York, on a visit aimed at raising awareness and gaining support for the release of their son, Avera, from his imprisonment by Hamas in Gaza. And there are many more of us alumni working on this cause in addition to those who went to the States. We are moved with compassion for