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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Feb 2012
Barry is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus and currently serves as the Head of School at Fuchs Mizrachi in Cleveland. OH. Barry can be reached at bkislowicz@fuchsmizrachi.org When it comes to day schools it seems that the buzz word of the moment is Sustainability: the rising price of tuition, the inability of families to afford our day schools, and the struggle for institutional fundraising to keep up with the cost
Feb 2012
Rabbi Carol Davidson is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class II. Rabbi Davidson is the Associate Executive Director for External Affairs at the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services. Rabbi Carol Davidson can be reached at: cdavidson@jbfcs.org. Once a year, UJA Federation of NY sends the email to our CEO and me, telling us it’s “that time of year again.” For once, they are not referring to
Feb 2012
Allison is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XIV, and a Jewish Educator. She is currently working with a fellow Class XIV Graduate Fellowship alumna, Orit Kent, on the Beit Midrash Research Project at Brandeis University, developing, researching, and teaching a “Havruta-Inspired Pedagogy.” Allison can be reached at alltcook@earthlink.net. Last month I made what felt like a triumphant return to Israel after too many years. This time I
Feb 2012
Jamie Borstein is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (Class 18). Jamie is the Assistant Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, North America, and can be reached at james.bornstein@gmail.com. If Roger Schwarz had a dollar for every marital spat he’s helped me to avoid, he’d be a wealthy man. Roger, President of Roger Schwarz and Associates, and a master of effective communication strategies, taught my class during
Feb 2012
Jacob is a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. He is writing his dissertation on Jewish-state relations in communist Czechoslovakia. He lectures regularly at the St. Louis Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center. Jacob can be reached at labendz@gmail.com. The results of a recent study shocked the Israeli Army (http://tinyurl.com/7337tob). It seems that their program of sending officers to visit Auschwitz backfired among a significant cohort, actually diminishing their
Jan 2012
Rabbi Edward S. Boraz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, (Class I) and is the Rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish Community and is the Michael Steinberg ’61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel, now in his 14th year of service. He can be reached at Edward.S.Boraz@darthmouth.EDU. For the past two years, we had approximately 20 people attend our Simchat Torah celebrations. This year, with Meira, a new Educational
Jan 2012
Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna, (Class 13) who works at Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Life in Glencoe, Illinois. She also serves as the Director of the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism and is the Executive Director of the National Organization of American Mohalim. She received master’s degrees from the University of Judaism and from Harvard Graduate School of Education and was ordained as
Jan 2012
Barat Ellman is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class XII). A rabbi, she received her Ph.D. in Bible from JTS this past spring. She is teaching as an adjunct professor at JTS and Fordham, and is actively looking for a full-time position. Barat can be reached at barat@mindspring.com. As we begin the book of Shemot this week, my thoughts have turned to Moses. Not the Moses of
Jan 2012
Jacob is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (Class VII), and Rabbi of Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Rabbi Blumenthal can be reached at rabbijacob@shaaretorah.org. I was at a “call back” interview with a rapidly-growing congregation that was seeking its first assistant rabbi. After a lovely and warm Shabbat, the search committee organized an “ask the candidate” session on Sunday morning. It turned out that this involved sitting in
Jan 2012
Tamra is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (Class I) and the Current Project Director of the new Ramah in the Rockies. Tamra can be reached at tdollin@ramahrockies.org The day school’s board of directors was seated around a large dining room table at the home of one of the school’s founders and major donors. The young school was at a precipice, not yet having reached a sustainable size, and