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Apr 2015
In the words of our founder Leslie Wexner, "Make an impact. Change the world." Watch these three brief videos as we honor our visionary funder's dreams becoming a reality today. Feel free to comment below if these videos or your experience at the 30th have sparked any ideas about where to go from here (or, as Les says, "what got us here, won't get us there"). Below is another brief
Tammy Dollin, WGF, Class 1 What struck me immediately was the magnitude and the import of the event. I entered the ballroom filled with 1200 people, all gathered in gratitude to recognize and communicate the impact of the nearly $1 billion investment in Jewish leadership made over the last 30 years by Les and Abigail Wexner. The room was filled with enormous potential, an electric energy, ideas born and nurtured,
Apr 2015
This week, Jewish World Watch (JWW) – an organization that I co-founded with Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, z"l, just over a decade ago – brought together more than 3,500 people in Los Angeles for our Walk to End Genocide. It was incredible to look out from the stage and see so many faces of all backgrounds and faiths (many of whom are Wexner alums!) – united around the idea that
Apr 2015
These last few days, I have been thinking of Elisha crying after Eliyahu, “My father, my father! Chariot of Israel!” as the prophet is seized from his pupil in a whirlwind. To me, and to thousands of his students and followers around the globe, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l, was the gadol hador – the greatest rabbinic personality in the world, and his departure from us Monday morning is an upheaving
Apr 2015
"Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right." Jerry Garcia/ Robert Hunter I remember well my Bar Mitzvah. It took place May 22, 1965 and was one of the happiest weekends of my life. My parents, humble people from modest backgrounds, were so proud of the event and equally proud that they had just completed, in time for
Apr 2015
Reprinted with thanks to Abby's blog "Shameless Judaism/Adventures in Spiritual Refinement." Ask any one of my students, past or present: discipline has never been my strong suit. I tend to laugh more than yell, compliment more than critique and, to my embarrassment, give many more A's than B's. So today, the 9th day of the Omer, is a spiritually challenging day. The second week of the Omer mystically focuses on
"This is not the religious school you dreaded as a child," proclaims the website of Adventure Rabbi Kids, a Boulder, CO Jewish educational program for children. "A unique weekday Hebrew school that works for your busy family" is how Atlanta-based Jewish Kids Groups Afterschool Community describes itself. "We partner with children in long-term, project-based Jewish exploration, in a warm, Hebrew- and text-rich environment," says the publicity for the Chicago-area Jewish
Wilderness Torah led 150 people into the desert to experience the Passover Story. With thanks to NPR, All Things Considered, who broadcast our adventure. Click here to listen or read. Zelig Golden is a current Wexner Graduate Fellow in Class 27 and the Founding Director of Wilderness Torah. A community Maggid, wilderness guide, youth mentor, environmental educator and attorney, Zelig has helped develop and guide programs such as the Jewish Vision
The dishes I planned for Seder would have gone well with rice, were it not Pesach and were I not Ashkenazi. Little potatoes would be okay, too. But upon learning that quinoa is not chametz, I thought, “Perfect. So healthy, so organic, so trendy, and so pretty with its red curls, it could symbolize the Red Sea.” Standing in the pasta aisle of my currently-being-renovated Key Food Store, where they
Apr 2015
Photograph of Judith Trijtel, 1943 by Annemie Wolff (Copyright: Monica Kaltenschnee, Haarlem Holland) This is the time of year we tell stories. At Passover, we are commanded to tell the story of our ancestors’ exodus from Egypt. We recall the story as if we ourselves came out of Egypt, from slavery to freedom. For the generation of Holocaust survivors and their immediate descendents, this story of oppression and liberation goes