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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Jun 2013
I have been really fortunate throughout my marketing career. I have worked with some great brands, including Clorox Bleach, Durkee and French’s Spices & Seasonings, Scotts Turf Builder and Miracle-Gro. For the past eight years, I was a Senior Vice President at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, reminding Americans that “Nationwide is on your side”. But since graduating from the Wexner Heritage Program in 2002, I increasingly found something was missing
This is my first blogging experience. I dedicate it to fellow Atlanta Wexner Heritage alum, Seth Cohen, a well-known and highly successful blogger and the first person I discussed a pooled giving fund with. I hereby summon his blogging aura to this post. As has been reported in two previous Wexner newsletters, we in the Atlanta 10 class have undertaken to establish a pooled giving fund/giving collaborative/Jewish social venture fund.
Jun 2013
(Pictured) Wexner Heritage Alumni Dan Perla (NY 1) and Rae Janvey (NY/Skadden) meet up at Mechon Hadar’s Summer Kick Off More than 150 people from all walks of Jewish life came together Monday evening to kick off Mechon Hadar’s annual summer program in New York City. Many Wexner Heritage and Graduate Fellowship Alumni were present, including Mechon Hadar’s three founders, Rabbis Shai Held (Class 7), Ethan Tucker (Class 11), and
What a happy mix: a group of eighteen Wexner Heritage Alumni and current National Young Leadership Cabinet members from Pittsburgh, sharing a breakfast study session with Wexner faculty, Arna Poupko Fisher. So, how do you become a stronger leader? Arna came armed with both traditional and nontraditional texts for our discussion, and it was a thrill to see a Talmudic text, rather than, say, Forbes Magazine, illustrate the power
The first cohort of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumni Mentoring Program officially launched on February 20, 2013 in Princeton, NJ. Twenty mentors and twenty mentees, having applied and been selected to be part of the Mentoring Program, participated in a full day of training with consultant Rae Ringel, . The Mentoring Program was developed in partnership with the Jim Joseph Foundation. The group began in-depth training initially as a
Jun 2013
I joined the board of the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) in 2004 and am now in my third year as president. For more than 90 years, the JTA has been the definitive supplier of national and international news to Jewish print publications (as the AP is to local newspapers). Today, however, our main growth is online, as we reach far more people directly via JTA.org, our daily e-newsletter and social
For our last session of the Wexner Heritage Program, we were challenged to create an ‘ot’ (a sign / symbol) that could be presented to each member of our cohort as a marker or remembrance of our last two years. The genesis of this idea stems from the tradition of a Siyuum, a celebration that takes place upon the conclusion of something important like the conclusion of the writing a
Jun 2013
Nathalie Kaspy Shtern is a member of the Montreal Wexner Heritage 09 group. Nathalie is the President of Akiva School, the Founder and Executive Director of The Comfy Cozy Fund, and involved in and a member of various organizations in the Montreal community. She is a Criminologist by profession. Nathalie can be reached at natshtern@gmail.com. The best lessons are learned through unexpected opportunities. We often do not realize the breadth
Jun 2013
Josh Dinar is a Wexner Heritage Alumnus, Denver 08. Josh is the co-founder of DiningOut Magazines,and a hotel/nightclub/restaurant operator. He can be reached at josh@diningout.com. My wife’s family happened to be visiting us during Passover this year. We’d been graciously invited to several families’ celebrations, but we were a large crew – siblings, significant others, children, etc. – so crashing another dinner would have been pushing the boundaries of the
Jun 2013
Dr. Sherry Israel is a social psychologist, who was a member of the faculty of the Hornstein Program at Brandeis University from 1991 until her retirement two years ago. She has been on the faculty of the Wexner Graduate Fellows/Davidson Scholars Program Winter Institute since 2000. She can be reached at israel@brandeis.edu. A number of years ago, one of our daughters and a friend were hanging around in our living