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Oct 2014
Last summer, at the Wexner Heritage Summer Institute in Snowbird, Utah, participants brainstormed about challenges facing Jewish life in North America. I listened: “How can Judaism be more meaningful for people’s lives today?” “How can synagogues be more relevant for Jewish life?” “How can young professionals be drawn into Jewish life?” All of these questions were similarly on our minds when the Jewish Mindfulness Center of Washington (JMCW) was just
Oct 2014
In the wake of Rabbi Barry Freundel’s recent arrest for voyeurism in a D.C. mikvah, many of our alumni are publishing deep analyses and ideas for how to prevent future abuses. One such article was written by Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg (WGFA, Class 20) and is reprinted here with permission from The Jewish Week. Feel free to add your thoughts below in the comments section or post other article links you
Oct 2014
The Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly (GA) gathers together Federation volunteer leaders and professionals and those involved in the business of Jewish philanthropy from across North America and around the world. JFNA represents 153 Jewish Federations and more than 300 Network Communities, which together raise and distribute more than $3 billion annually for social welfare, social services and educational needs in their local communities and around the
Oct 2014
What do you get when you combine 23 Wexner Heritage Alumni from 14 cities (and a variety of program years), the spectacular Wexner staff, brilliant faculty and nonstop food and drink (besides weight gain)? I had the pleasure of being an alumni representative and a speaker at the Wexner Heritage Alumni Delegates Council Annual In-Person Meeting a few weekends ago in Chicago. The Council is made up of about 50
The current issue of the Peoplehood Papers published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education (CJPE), includes many provocative and constructive essays by fellow Wexner alumni, as well as Larry Moses, Senior Philanthropic Advisor and President Emeritus of The Wexner Foundation. You can access their insightful writing by clicking here. CJPE is seeking a few select board members for our international board of directors, so if you are passionate about deep
Oct 2014
Teen philanthropists award grants to deserving nonprofits (Jewish Community Youth Foundation, Princeton, NJ). It doesn’t look like much at first: a garden, just a pile of dirt. With the right natural elements and people to tend to it, that pile of dirt transforms; its space turns into a gathering place for community, its food turns into sustenance for families, its process turns into a learning experience for young and old.
Nearly two years ago I began research for the Jewish Funders NetworkGreenbook on Jewish Day School Financial Sustainability and Affordability. The publication, sponsored by the AVI CHAI Foundation, offers a landscape study of initiatives designed to buttress the financial picture of day schools. Conveniently, the Greenbook was published in January, concurrent with my beginning work at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education. Since then it has
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Oct 2014
I was brought up in Haifa, Israel, a symbol city of Jewish-Arab co-existence. During all my adolescent life I used to meet with Palestinians, either on personal occasions or within my military capacity. In late September 1996, I was leading the Israeli team of the Regional Security Committee (RSC) in the West Bank. After almost a year of mutual efforts to implement the security annex of the Peace accord, a
“The Wexner Israel Fellows spent the first two Sundays of September together with 75 Center for Public Leadership (CPL) fellows from around the world who are all studying at the Harvard Kennedy School. The first Sunday was an Outward Bound Experience on Thompson Island where fellows engaged in a number of physical and mental challenges in mixed teams – including scaling a 60-foot alpine tower. It was the first time