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I invite all WHF members, past, present and future, to our first NYC area Sacred Rights, Sacred Song, Concert of Concern. Come and support the creative activism of your fellow WHF member. Let me give a bit of background about the Sacred Rights, Sacred Song Project. Looking at Israel, from numerous vantage points, there is much to be concerned about. I founded SRSS in 2010 with the mission to use
Reprinted with thanks to the DRG Newsletter As CEO’s around the nation step down from leadership positions at nonprofits, their boards are faced with the challenging task of finding their successors, but few are prepared. According to a recent report by Third Sector New England, a Boston-based resource center for nonprofits, 64% of executives planned to leave their jobs within the next five years yet 60% of organizations did not
Sep 2015
Since the start of my career as a young physician, from a battalion surgeon to the Surgeon General of the IDF, I have practiced medicine and learned leadership lessons along the way. In this TedMed talk I hope to share with you some insights based on my experience running the IDF Field Hospital after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, for example, and also drawing on the strong organizational culture of leadership in crisis that the
The young woman standing in front of us is seemingly nervous and out of her comfort zone. She is likely new at this — presenting to grant committees. But as our dialogue unfolds, this initial impression quickly evaporates. Our presenter is sharing the work she is doing in Baltimore with Russian-Jewish teenagers — kids who, while Jewish by birth, either grew up in the former Soviet Union or are growing
Sep 2015
This post originally appeared on JOFA’s blog, “The Torch,” and is reposted with permission. “Imma, I want an upsherin!” My daughter revealed this mid-way through her first year at a Chabad preschool, where she had attended several of her classmate’s upsherins. A party and a first haircut (upsherin literally translates to shearing) was what she saw for those little boys, whose families were upholding a centuries-old chasidic custom that grew
Last March I teamed up with an Israeli classmate to take our MBA peers on an innovation and entrepreneurship trek to Israel. To incentivize students, we fundraised $75,000 toward subsidizing the 8-day trip and designed an itinerary based on student interests. Of the 31 travelers, 28 were not Jewish and 25 were international participants representing 15 countries. The majority of their views on Israel were based on biased media. Some students
Sep 2015
Reposted with thanks to the new JTS series of short videos entitled Sound Bytes of Torah for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. WGF alum, David Hoffman (Class 6), gives us a teaching and some koach to continue our work in 5776. Rabbi David Hoffman, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alum (Class 6), is the Vice Chancellor and Chief Advancement Officer at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He can be
Sep 2015
Dear Pope Francis, I’m sure your much-anticipated visit to the United States was not timed to coincide with our season of holy days, a time of personal renewal and return to God, all in celebration of the world’s creation. But we are delighted to share this special season with you, since you are a religious teacher who so deeply appreciates its meaning. It is becoming increasingly clear that the most
Pictured: Andrea Pino and Annie Clark used phone, email, in-person visits, and every social media platform available to empower young women across the country who previously felt marginalized: “No one connected the dots before.” We did not expect that before the age of 25, either of us would be making headlines, let alone headlines for taking on a major educational institution, and we certainly did not expect these headlines
I grew up in a small suburb of Los Angeles where we were one of the only Jewish families, and always yearned to experience a sense of Jewish community. I found my Jewish community two weeks ago at the New Member Institute. I have never experienced such a level of warmth, openness and acceptance as I did that week, no matter how different our backgrounds. Having lost both of my