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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Aug 2010
Ramie Arian is a a consultant who works with Jewish camps, youth movements and other agencies concerned with building Jewish identity and commitment. He was a senior member of the Wexner Heritage Foundation staff for nine years, ending as Vice President in 1998. He can be reached at ramie.arian@gmail.com. The reordering of priorities which was recently approved by the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) has
Aug 2010
Rebecca Gold is an Alumna of the Metrowest, NJ Wexner Heritage Program. She is the VP of Training & Education for the Metrowest UJC Women’s Philanthropy Board and sits on the Executive Committee of UJC. She can be reached at rbgold@optonline.net. “Where tzedakah is a gift or loan of money, hessed is the gift of the person. It costs less and more: less because its gestures often cost little or
Aug 2010
Even Kresin Steinber is Executive Director of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation and a Wexner Heritage Program Alumna from Baltimore. Eve can be reached at ESteinberg@BTFILOH.org. It was 20 years ago that I boarded the plane for Snowbird, Utah as a new participant in the Wexner Heritage Foundation program. I was young, and my children were young. I was just establishing myself as a committed (and hopefully valued) member of the
Aug 2010
Alison Betts is a member of the Phoenix Wexner Heritage 2009 class and works in International Marketing for American Express. She is the Co-Founder of the “PJ Library” initiative in Phoenix and can be reached at alison.h.betts@gmail.com Jason Israel is a member of the Phoenix Wexner Heritage 2009 class. Jason is President of Hayden Properties, an investment and development firm focusing on healthcare for seniors. He is Co-Founder of the
Aug 2010
Amber Powers is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Rabbi Powers serves as the Dean of Admissions and Recruitment at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She can be reached at apowers@rrc.edu. I was always a very good student. I loved learning and was very self-motivated. Most of my learning came easily to me. Half-way through rabbinical school, I was surprised to find myself struggling to fully understand the material
Jul 2010
Jacob Labendz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program. He is a PhD Candidate in the History Department of Washington University in St. Louis. Jacob is writing his dissertation on Jewish-state relations in Communist-led Czechoslovakia, and spent four years working in and alongside the Jewish community in Prague. He can be reached at labendz@hotmail.com. We had won. After fruitless negotiation with leaders whom we felt to be
Jul 2010
This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Jewish Journal and www.jewishjournal.com Lorin Fife is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program, Los Angeles. He is a recovering attorney, former waiter and accomplished artist, serves on the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors and its Committee on the Unity of the Jewish People. He has co-chaired the Israel and Overseas programming of L.A.’s Jewish Federation as well as its Tel
Noam Pianko is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He is a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage program and a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus. Noam just published Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn (Indiana University Press), blogs at www.noampianko.com, and lives in Seattle with his wife Rachel Nussbaum (also a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alum) and daughters, Yona and Mia. He can
Jul 2010
Skip Vichness is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage MetroWest group. Skip is the Chair of the Foundation for Jewish Camp and is the Managing Partner of GreyPine,LLC which is involved in the operation of day, resident and special needs camps in the Northeast. He can be reached at skipv@nyc.rr.com. Over the years, mostly with the help of the Wexner Heritage program, I have thought long and hard about what
Jul 2010
Michael Alon is founder of the Let All the Children Play Foundation and an alumnus of the NY Wexner Heritage Program. He is a businessman living in Long Island, NY. For more information on how you can get involved with LATCP, go to www.latcp.org. Michael can be reached at Malon7@aol.com. Summer 1992 I am in Israel, along with a group of other Wexner Heritage members at our Wexner Heritage Program