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Our year-long series of 36 Minutes LIVE: Beyond the Book is going strong! Check out the recordings of our two most recent calls and stay tuned for more information about upcoming calls! A surface look at the “leadership industry” reveals enormous investment in the development of leaders, but limited time and money spent on leadership research. We have turned toward teaching the how of leading rather than teaching about leadership.
May 2017
I recently published a CD called “May the Angels Carry You: Jewish Songs of Comfort for Death, Burial and Mourning," designed as a companion to my husband Simcha Raphael’s book of deathbed prayers, “May the Angels Carry You: Jewish Prayers and Meditations for the Deathbed.” The Wexner community might want to know about this collection of traditional and newly created end-of-life prayer resources. Here is an example of the title
May 2017
Reprinted with thanks to eJewish Philanthropy In my early days of working at Hillel, I remember having a conversation with a campus professional about how to find the Jews on campus. “You want to know who’s Jewish?” he asked, “Put up a sukkah on one side of the street and see who crosses to the other side to avoid you. That’s how you’ll know who is Jewish.” It was a
May 2017
It was one of those dark, stormy spring weeknights that had an autumn feeling to it — it's the kind of night when you cancel whatever is on your social calendar and cuddle up to re-binge Game of Thrones so that it's nice and fresh in your mind ahead of Season 7. Yet, despite all odds, 20 or so Russian Speaking Jews (RSJs) gathered all the way uptown — crossing 14th,
May 2017
At The Wexner Foundation, we assess and adapt our work constantly so that we continue to excel in training you, our leaders, who strengthen communities in North America and Israel. Part of our formula requires us to stay at the front of fast-breaking technological developments so that members of our network can use an optimal set of tools to “change the world for the better” — to quote Les. Toward
The WhatsApp group for the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) Wexner cohort of New York 16 has been a lively forum for political debate and discussion since its inception last summer during the New Member Institute (NMI) in Snowmass, CO. Frankly, it’s been hard to discern whether we terribly like each other and want to talk all the time or whether the unprecedented political events of the last eight months have gotten
May 2017
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Sarah Benor, WGF Alum (Class 11), on publishing her book, We the Resilient: Wisdom for America from Women Born Before Suffrage. Maital Friedman, WGF Alum (Class 23), on becoming Alumni Director for the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Elisha Gechter, TWF Staff, on receiving the Spot Award from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Public Leadership and to her and her husband Sam for receiving
May 2017
The Wexner Foundation is proud to announce the members of Class 30 of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program. As these exceptional professionals pursue graduate training for careers in Jewish Education, Jewish Professional Leadership, Jewish Studies and the Rabbinate, they will participate in a prestigious four-year professional development program comprised of leadership training, cohort-based learning, peer support, professional mentoring and networking. They join a network of Jewish leadership excellence
Apr 2017
Ever since I can remember, we celebrated a communal birthday for my father, Danny Levonovski. He is one of 25 that survived from a group of 131 children from Kaunas. They were exiled from their hometown, separated from their parents and sent by train, in the cold, to Auschwitz. When they got there, sequential numbers were branded on their arms. Regardless of their own birthdays, they celebrate the day of
Apr 2017
Ninety alumni from all of our programs report back on highlights, challenges and take-aways from the recent Summit's concluding gathering in Zichron Yaakov. How might we (Re)Imagine the North American Jewish Community and Israel's Relationship? Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, WGF Alum (Class 2) I think one of the most important things that has happened in terms of my own understanding of the relationship between the two communities — as somebody who has