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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Apr 2012
Jodi is an Atlanta 05 Wexner Heritage alumna. She is an urban planner who works at Jamestown Development and Construction on new urbanist development projects. She connects her volunteers and values through direct service work in the community and by serving on the boards of Limmud Atlanta+SE and Repair the World. Jodi can be reached at jodi.mansbach@gmail.com. I’d venture to say that for most participants in a Wexner program, engaging
Mar 2012
Robert Chazan has served for 25 years as the Chair of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Selection Committee, and he is an S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; Director, Wagner-Skirball Dual Degree Program and Co-Director, Doctoral Program in Education and Jewish Studies. In August 1985, Rabbi Maurice Corson, newly appointed as President of the recently created Wexner
Mar 2012
Lisa, a member of the East Bay 10 Wexner Heritage Program, is an editor at Literary Mama . She serves as Board Secretary of the Contra Costa Jewish Day School in Lafayette, California. She is also a member of the Jewish Federation of the East Bay’s Women’s Philanthropy Board. Lisa can be reached at llmo@yahoo.com. Put 40 Jewish education leaders in a room and surround them with good food
Mar 2012
David A. Mersky is Managing Director of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that solves problems in marketing, communication and resource development for non-profit organizations and private businesses. He can be reached at: www.merskyjaffe.com. The single most important committee of a nonprofit organization’s board is its committee on governance and leadership development (whatever it may be called). It is charged with identifying and successfully engaging the future leadership
Michael is a graduate student at Emory University getting his PhD in American Religious Cultures. His work focuses on North American Jews and therapeutic culture. He is a Fellow of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory, and an alumnus of the Atlanta 2005 Wexner Heritage Program. Purim was wonderful this year. My three children really get into the joy of the holiday. They eagerly anticipate shaloch manot deliveries,
Mar 2012
Barb, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna of Class IV, is the Director of Education at Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the mother of three inspirational teenagers. Barb can be reached at: barbg@timemphis.org. I had a personal milestone recently. My youngest child became bar mitzvah. People were congratulating me and joking that the next big thing I would have to do is a wedding. It made me laugh, and
Mar 2012
Justus Baird is an alumnus of The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XV and the rabbi and director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Seminary in New York. He can be reached at: jbaird@auburnseminary.org In recent years I developed a new respect for the idea embodied in the line of prayer ‘Blessed is the One who spoke and the world came to be’ (Baruch she-amar v’hayah ha-olam). My younger
Mar 2012
Liz is a current Wexner Graduate Fellow (Class XXIII) and a second-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR in New York. Liz can be reached at lizraeli@gmail.com. I have been thinking about what makes a text holy. At my core, I am a librarian’s daughter. So during winter vacation, when I reorganized all of the books in my room, I arranged them topically, like a microcosmic and eclectic Dewey Decimal system. Various
David is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program, Chicago 2006, a financial advisor on the North Shore of Chicago and teacher of spirituality classes in the Jewish community. He can be reached at dstrulow@gmail.com. What I’ve been thinking about lately is my enduring need to connect my lifelong study and practice of Judaism with spirituality. By way of background, I feel like I woke up one day to a
Feb 2012
Miriam is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, (Class IX) and currently serves as the Director of Educational Engagement at the Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore where she tries to creatively, thoughtfully and passionately inspire families to connect with Judaism and Jewish community through meaningful encounters with our tradition and our people. Miriam can be reached at: miriamburg@yahoo.com. My son has decided that he is going to be