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Feb 2016
Last week, the Portland Heritage Class, which graduated in 1997, got together as a group for the first time in about 15 years. We have all seen each other informally and at various communal events, even board meetings over the years, but this was the first time we gathered intentionally as Wexner alumni to think about the future of the Portland Jewish community. We also reached out to Graduate Fellowship
Feb 2016
Foundation Chairman Leslie Wexner was at Harvard's Kennedy School yesterday. He taught a master class in leadership to our 40 Wexner Senior Leaders, who are participating in an Executive in-residence program for the month and our year-long Wexner Israel Fellows. Les emphasized that leaders must take responsibility for ongoing leadership development, that effective leaders self-coach. “They know that leadership is not about them,” he stressed, “It’s about me. Its about
Feb 2016
Back in 2012, the Israeli Consulate in Boston reached out to campuses, declaring March the "Month of the Israeli Woman" and providing a list of Israelis in the area who could speak to student audiences. WGF alum Michelle Fisher (Class 10), Executive Director of the MIT Hillel, saw the list, but none of the women seemed appropriate for MIT. Wanting still to support the endeavor, she remembered there were Wexner
Feb 2016
We are bombarded from every side with requests to give our time and money to support worthy organizations. Considering the overwhelming number of requests we receive, we begin to question why we are supporting those organizations. What is the motivation? Other than a “love of humanity” (or the Jewish people), what drives our giving? Is it the sense of responsibility that our parents instilled in us? Or perhaps our religious
Video reposted from ELI Talks. A few months ago, Shmuly Yanklowitz donated a kidney to a complete stranger. How much can and should we give of ourselves? Shmuly Yanklowitz, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alum (Class 19), is President and Dean of the Valley Beit Midrash. He is also the founder and president of Uri L’Tzedek and the founder and CEO of The Shamayim V’Aretz Insitute. Rav Shmuly completed his Master's at
Feb 2016
I've heard that for those who come to use the mikveh (ritual bath) with ImmerseNYC and other community mikvaot across the country, one of the most powerful aspects is the embodied experience of feeling fully accepted and enveloped in the warm water. Our lay-led planning team for Water and Wine, ImmerseNYC’s launch event, attempted to replicate that experience for attendees. We wanted to send the message that through various life
Feb 2016
There is nothing that bothers me more than people who complain but never take action to change things. This generally stems from a lack of leadership. In the face of criticism that the Los Angeles Jewish community was not doing enough to train effective new communal leaders, I decided to create a new program. After two years of planning, the development of a creative funding strategy and the hiring of
Feb 2016
The distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco is roughly 1.2 miles. About a 15-minute ferry ride. That lonely, iconic island in the middle of the Bay is not very far from the city at all, but when I stood on the small beach just below Ghirardelli Square and looked out, when my toes curled in protest in the icy water and I struggled to yank the zipper of my wetsuit
Feb 2016
It was with absolute delight, and déjà vu, that 21 Wexner alumni and some spouses of the San Diego Heritage classes met this past week to study with Rabbi Nathan Laufer. What a treat! Rabbi Laufer, the former president and CEO of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, was visiting San Diego and we were honored to have the opportunity to offer our fellow alumni the chance to learn together with
Feb 2016
Top row, from left to right: Ra'anan Avital, Director General - The Wexner Foundation, Israel; Tal Winbrom, Manager, Wexner Senior Leaders; Ido Nehushtan, Chair, Advisory Committee for The Wexner Foundation, Israel Office; Tania Boguslavsky, WSL ('16); Bottom row, from left to right: Moshe Dayan, Civil Service Commissioner; Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel. The second cohort of Wexner Senior Leaders (WSL '16) cohort was hosted last week by the President of