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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Oct 2008
Rabbi Dov Weiss, an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, is the Director of Admissions of Yeshiva Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is also pursuing a PhD in Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He can be reached at dyweiss@aol.com. Over the last ten years, I have had the distinct privilege of working with one of
Oct 2008
Shafi Nujidat, an alumnus of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program, is Head of the Department of Education of the Bu’eina-Nujidat Local Council, a Bedouin town located in the north of Israel. He is happy to host Wexner alumni in his town and can be reached at 4shafi@gmail.com. For many years, I have been Head of the Department of Education and Culture of the Bu’eina- Nujidat Local Council. Bu’eina-Nujidat is a
Sep 2008
Stefanie Zelkind, an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, serves as the Director of Youth Philanthropy at the Jewish Funders Network. If you are interested in bringing Jewish youth philanthropy to your community and joining the Jewish TEEN Funders Network, please contact Stefanie at szelkind@jfunders.org. You must not remain indifferent. Deuteronomy 22:3 Brightly colored posters lined the corridor of the high school. Conference registrants wore huge buttons on their
Rabbi Joshua Elkin is the Executive Director of the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (www.peje.org). He can be reached at josh@peje.org The high drama found in the book of Devarim is unmistakable: the revered leader Moshe is addressing the people of Israel in the twilight of his life and just prior to the entry into the promised land of Israel (Canaan), which he will never experience, Moshe steps back
Sep 2008
Rabbi Allen Sellis is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Allen is Head of School of The Solomon Schechter Day School of St. Louis. He can be reached at aselis@ssdsstl.org. If you’re a leader, don’t be afraid to do these three things: Face up. Fess up. Fix up. In the summer of 2007, I assumed the headship of a Jewish day school in St. Louis. I spent that
Don Abramson, a Wexner Heritage alumnus from San Francisco, is a past chair of the American Jewish World Service and a current board member. His support of the Jerusalem AIDS Project is independent of AJWS. If interested in being involved in the Jerusalem AIDS Project’s work, please contact Don at borscht88@aol.com. How do we know how to act properly and effectively in facing one of the biggest moral and medical
Aug 2008
Allison Shapira is the coordinator of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program and is based at the Harvard Kennedy School. She can be reached at ashapira@wexner.net Jews in Italy normally keep a low profile – when I lived in the northern city of Padova, the Jewish ghetto was a quiet place with few people walking around. Not so in Rome, where the Jewish ghetto is a vibrant quarter alongside the Tiber
Aug 2008
Howard Lichtman is a Virtual Chief Marketing Officer for a number of leading corporations and non- profit organizations. He is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program from Toronto and recently participated in the alumni trip to Poland and Hungary. He can be reached at Hlichtman1@aol.com The expression “speak up” is all about being heard. Many non-profits and Jewish organizations use high- profile speakers as an attraction and as a
Aug 2008
Rabbi David Hoffman, an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, teaches Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is the Scholar-in-Residence in its Department of Institutional Advancement. He can be reached at dahoffman@jtsa.edu “You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low (katan) and high (gadol) alike. Fear no man, for judgment is God’s.” (Deuteronomy 1:17) Philo, the great first-century Alexandrian Jewish thinker, was engaged in a project
Jul 2008
Seth Cohen, an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program from Atlanta, is a partner in the law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. He is involved in a variety of Jewish initiatives, most importantly, his own family. He can be reached at scohen@kilpatrickstockton.com, and his blog on Jewish community issues can be found at www.boundlessdramaofcreation.com. What is in a name? That is the question my wife Marci and I recently were