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Feb 2016
I’m sure it won’t shock you, as part of the Wexner network, that this story begins on a buffet line. This particular buffet line was at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem last summer. Before the Wexner Heritage Summer Institute was scheduled to begin that evening, I had arranged a few meetings to plan a new grant. My morning consisted of an appointment with Dr. Yafa Haron, head of the
Jan 2016
My second child (and first son) was born just one hour before kick-off on Super Bowl Sunday in 2005. From that point on, I knew I would always have an affinity for this momentous day in American life. Little did I know that I would one day live in North Carolina, where people greet each other during the NFL season with the Panthers' motto, “Keep pounding,” and where Super Bowl
Reprinted with thanks to ejewishphilantrhopy.com We all want our board members to be focused on development – to do those solicitations! So it’s not surprising that solicitation training is the most requested board training. However, we can’t stop there if we want our donors to renew their gifts next year. We need our board to be trained on and focusing on stewardship as well. Stewardship is all about maintaining and
The Community Foundation for Jewish Education of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (CFJE) is tasked with, among other things, improving support for some 50 congregational education programs in the Chicagoland area. I have long been concerned that congregational education is not engaging kids with meaningful curricula and compelling teachers. I know there is great work being done across the Wexner network on improving what we all formerly referred
Jan 2016
Photo: WGF Class 25 celebrates their graduation after four years in the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (not pictured: Dalit Horn and Raysh Weiss). The following remarks – originally started with a joke – are excerpted from a talk Jeremy gave during last week’s WGF Winter Institute in Fort Myers, Florida. According to the Pew Study, 42% of North American Jews think that having a sense of humor is an essential part of
Jan 2016
Jan 2016
I wrote "The Tide is Rising" after being asked to lead a song at Coming Together In Faith On Climate, an interfaith service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC during Pope Francis's visit. Raised in the folk scene, I have experienced the power of music to move groups of people and inspire shared vision and identity. "The Tide Is Rising" has gone viral in the climate movement, and I'm
Jan 2016
Last week's Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumni (WGFA) Institute was focused on the theme "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Sharing the Teachings that Animate our Work and our Lives," planned by WGF alumni Miriam Heller Stern (Class 13), Scott Meltzer (Class 4) and Devin Villarreal (Class 18). Alumni had opportunities to share what they have learned from the giants in their life. As part of the Institute, Miriam Heller Stern
Jan 2016
If you want to influence someone’s behavior, it helps to ask who they know. Thanks to the groundbreaking research of Nick Christakis and others, there is now a mounting body of evidence showing that a range of our behaviors and attitudes are influenced by our social networks. Your friends help shape whether or not you smoke, if you can lose weight, how happy you say you are, where you live
Jan 2016
Opening night of the Miami Jewish Film Festival is tonight! We will be screening 80 films over two weeks and are almost entirely sold out. I am especially proud that we will be screening the North American premiere of Natalie Portman's new film, A Tale of Love and Darkness. This is her directorial debut and she stars in the movie, too. Most people don't know that she was born in Israel