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Oct 2013
“Our son said there were over 750,000 people at the funeral and while he wanted to go, he and many of his friends decided it would be too difficult to get into Jerusalem logistically. How big a giant of Torah law and commentary was R. Ovadiah Yosef, z"l? Imagine for every person who went, 1-3 wanted to go. That equates to a quarter to a half of the Jewish people
I recently studied a teaching on aging with a group of six women (ranging in age from 49 to 70-something), who have been learning with me for several years. Through the lens of Jewish text, we’ve grappled with many of the core questions of life, including the challenges of aging – both our parents, and ourselves. But this particular text – a commentary by the Mei Hashiloach on the patriarch
Oct 2013
The Wexner Foundation convened a conference call yesterday, October 9, to discuss implications of the recent Pew Study for Jewish leaders. The call was chaired by The Wexner Foundation President, Rabbi B. Elka Abrahamson, and featured Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor (WGFA, Class 11) and sociologist Dr. Steven M. Cohen, who were all members of the Advisory Panel for the Pew Trust. Close to 200 Wexner members, fellows, and alumni participated.
Oct 2013
Funny story: Torah teaches this week that God was furious over human violence and morbid stupidity and decided to flood the world. The only way to survive was for Noah and Na'amah to build an ark and invite creatures from all walks of life aboard. We're all in the same boat, they realized. Congress, get the message? Rabbi Michael Adam Latz, is the Senior Rabbi at Shir Tikvah Congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where
Sep 2013
“Having recently completed a two year leadership program that was funded by the Columbus Jewish Federation and the Wexner Foundation, I especially want to thank these two remarkable organizations for recognizing and investing in young leaders. Their investment in me and my peers is a gift, one that I hope to repay through my continued commitment to our community.” -Aaron Shocket, a Columbus 11 Wexner Heritage Alum, upon receiving the
“Shadow in Baghdad” is a new documentary film that traces the story of the Jewish community and its disappearance from Baghdad by focusing on the narrative of Wexner Israel Fellowship Alum, Linda Menuhin Abdel Aziz (Class 6), who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the 1970’s. Duki Dror, one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers in Israel, set out to tell the story of Iraqi Jewry through this film. On
Sep 2013
Rabbi Alan Lew z’’l wrote that “when we put the charged words or phrases or sentences together with the charged moments , we may find a significant rhyme, we find that one instructs us about the other, and that both taken together are extremely significant for us, telling us something we really needed to know.” In his memoir Be Still and Get Going, Rabbi Lew
Sep 2013
Photo credit from TabletMag.com. Mechon Hadar was launched 7 years ago by 3 Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumni (myself, Rabbi Ethan Tucker, Class 11, and Rabbi Shai Held, Class 7). We have often been asked to bring the compelling Torah taught by our faculty (including many more Wexner alumni!) to a much wider audience. The three of us have also had the honor to serve at various times as Wexner faculty
On Sukkot, we reap what we have planted. We celebrate community. There is great potential in working together – whether cooperating, coordinating, or collaborating. Working together across agencies presents tremendous opportunities to leverage individual expertise into greater impact. Why don’t we work together more? Why do some collaborations succeed and others fail? We know planting some fruits and vegetables together creates greater growth. Similarly, there are planting practices that create
CORE18 Leaders Lab, a new and exclusive social entrepreneurial boot camp for Jewish leaders ages 19-25, is being co- chaired by actor Mayim Bialik, of The Big Bang Theory, UK Chief Rabbi Emeritus Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Dr. Tal ben-Shahar, who taught Harvard’s hugely popular course “Positive Psychology and Leadership.” CORE18 gives young Jewish leaders a platform to build themselves, their ideas and their communities through a high-powered