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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Jun 2016
Designed to inspire and unite Jewish teens in the Columbus area to engage in service learning, the Wexner Service Corps selects rising 10th and 11th grade students to participate in the Wexner Service Corps (WSC), beginning with a 5-day service trip, followed by year-round service in Columbus. I was lucky enough to travel again with the Wexner Service Corps to Philadelphia with a group of 40 other Jewish Columbus
Jun 2016
Photo: Wexner Israel Fellows (Class 27) during graduation weekend On the morning of May 25th, the day before HKS graduation, Wexner Israel Fellows Class 27 gathered with their families to mark the end of their year at Harvard. During the ceremony, they received certificates from the Foundation for having completed their year of seminars, institutes and learning. The fellows shared reflections on the year and made public declarations about the
Jun 2016
Our nation and our communities continue to grieve over the senseless loss of 49 precious souls from the devastating tragedy that unfolded in Orlando on Sunday. As Jews around the world were reaffirming the Covenant on the holiday of Shavuot, recommitting to a tradition and a Torah which sanctify life — a murderer was unleashing his fury on innocent revelers. Our hearts are anguished and we share in the pain
Jun 2016
Im Tirtzu Ein Zo Agadah, if you will it, it is no dream. Herzl’s words resonate with the journey Camp Daisy and Harry Stein — formerly Camp Charles Pearlstein — has experienced over the past 25 years. In this blog, I share a case study of how our camp went from good to great since many of you are also trying to get your organizations to be great and maybe there are
Jun 2016
I fell in love with camp late; I didn’t go to sleepover camp until I was 15 — the last summer I could be a regular camper — but since then I’ve been going back, first to Camp Kadimah in Nova Scotia and last summer to Camp Ramah in Canada. To me, there is nothing more magical and inspiring than the power of camp and I have spent years doing what I can to
Dear Wexnerites, I was directed to this you tube of the Yeshiva University Commencement address by Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots. I thought that it was one of the best speeches that I have heard in years. It seems to resonate with the teachings of Wexner and Hillel: If not you, then who? and if not now, when? Regards, Raphael Lavin, clfp
A friend sent me the You Tube link of Robert Kraft’s address at the Yeshiva University commencement. It is something we all should think and rethink about. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oBkAADG09BY&sns=em
Jewish overnight camps are powerful incubators of Jewish identity, movements for social change and the next generation of Jewish leadership. So, why are they built in the middle of nowhere? As we move into camp season, I’d like to share these questions and more from a piece I wrote last year. I look forward to the joyous sounds of campers and counselors arriving and to exploring these questions more thoroughly
Jun 2016
Often when we travel to both Israel and the United States, we visit “places” and not “people.” This results in us failing to develop meaningful personal relationships that would facilitate better understanding between our communities as people. The misconceptions of what it means to be a Jew in North America, what it means to be a Jew in Israel and how we relate to each other were reflected in the