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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
The WhatsApp group for the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) Wexner cohort of New York 16 has been a lively forum for political debate and discussion since its inception last summer during the New Member Institute (NMI) in Snowmass, CO. Frankly, it’s been hard to discern whether we terribly like each other and want to talk all the time or whether the unprecedented political events of the last eight months have gotten
May 2017
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Sarah Benor, WGF Alum (Class 11), on publishing her book, We the Resilient: Wisdom for America from Women Born Before Suffrage. Maital Friedman, WGF Alum (Class 23), on becoming Alumni Director for the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Elisha Gechter, TWF Staff, on receiving the Spot Award from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Public Leadership and to her and her husband Sam for receiving
May 2017
The Wexner Foundation is proud to announce the members of Class 30 of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program. As these exceptional professionals pursue graduate training for careers in Jewish Education, Jewish Professional Leadership, Jewish Studies and the Rabbinate, they will participate in a prestigious four-year professional development program comprised of leadership training, cohort-based learning, peer support, professional mentoring and networking. They join a network of Jewish leadership excellence
Apr 2017
Ever since I can remember, we celebrated a communal birthday for my father, Danny Levonovski. He is one of 25 that survived from a group of 131 children from Kaunas. They were exiled from their hometown, separated from their parents and sent by train, in the cold, to Auschwitz. When they got there, sequential numbers were branded on their arms. Regardless of their own birthdays, they celebrate the day of
Apr 2017
Ninety alumni from all of our programs report back on highlights, challenges and take-aways from the recent Summit’s concluding gathering in Zichron Yaakov. How might we (Re)Imagine the North American Jewish Community and Israel’s Relationship? Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, WGF Alum (Class 2) I think one of the most important things that has happened in terms of my own understanding of the relationship between the two communities — as somebody who has
Apr 2017
Reposted with thanks to JCastNetwork.org Another Yom HaShoah has come and gone, now 67 years since the end of World War II. Not that in all those years we’ve gotten it just right when it comes to marking these most overwhelming events in all the 4,000 years of the Jewish people. I think about this a lot, as a synagogue rabbi trying to program something moving and intelligent each spring.
Apr 2017
CONGRATULATIONS TO: Noa Asher, alum of The WIF (Class 22), on becoming Trade Representative for the Ministry of Economics in Israel’s Embassy in Japan. Moshe Elad, alum of The WIF (Class 6), on his book, “The Core Problems in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict.” (Haifa: Pardes Publishers, 2014). Uri Gordin, alum of The WIF (Class 22), on being appointed Commander of Israel’s NACHAL Brigade. Shira Hammerman, alum of The WGF (Class
Larry Moses, Senior Philanthropic Advisor and President Emeritus, recently served as Scholar in Residence for the Yom HaShoah events in South Bend, Indiana, his home town. In addition to delivering keynote presentations at the Jewish community’s Yom HaShoah ceremony and the city-wide gathering at the courthouse the next day, the Moses family commissioned and dedicated an addition to the Holocaust memorial on the campus of the Jewish Federation of St.
At the Crossroads of Negotiations and Crises: Iran and the Palestinians An Exclusive Conference Call for our Constituents May 14, 2014 10am to 11am EDT, 17:00 – 18:00 Israel time Major-General (Res.) Amos Yadlin, who heads Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies and is an alum of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program (Class 5) will speak on a conference call open to the WexNetwork. He’ll discuss two of the
With thanks to all nominators, partners, selection committees, and candidates, The Wexner Foundation is pleased to announce the newest Wexner cohorts for 2014. The Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program, Class 27 Davidson Scholars Jordanna Birnbaum, JPL, NYU Dual Degree (Wagner/Skirball) David Block, JE, Azrieli School of Jewish Education and Administration (YU) Alena Gomulina, JPL, Brandeis University (Hornstein/Heller) Zoe Jick, JE, Harvard Divinity School Sasha Kopp, JE, Hebrew Union