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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

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

Working as a Jewish Chaplain at Rikers Island Correctional Facility comes with a unique set of challenges.  For instance, something as simple as sitting down to write this piece involved going through eight metal gates, waiting for an “inmate altercation” to clear and securing one of the few computers in the facility.  When I clicked on an old WexnerLEADS article for inspiration, I received the following message: “Content blocked by

In 2013, the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) voted to close down after 32 years. JESNA Board Chair and Wexner Heritage alum Cass Gottlieb (Baltimore) and Jonathan Woocher (former President and Chief Ideas Officer) thought it would be helpful to the Jewish Community at large to be transparent about how they shut down their organization. Reposted with thanks to ejewishphilanthropy.com. The JESNA Board held its final meeting a

I became Executive Director of Hillel at Drexel University by accident.  Sometimes you look for captivating leadership opportunities – sometimes they find you. I graduated from rabbinical school in June of 2010 poised to spend a year treading water while I waited for my wife to graduate. I would work for Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, where I had interned, in a one-year position created for me, coordinating regional programming.  

Quick – name three things that come to mind when you think of a mid-life crisis? If you answered a convertible, a hairpiece and an affair with a younger woman, you got the most popular answers. But how many of you said, “leaving your corporate job and becoming a Jewish communal professional”? Once upon a time that answer was a rarity. But increasingly more of us are doing just that.

With thanks to HaYideon, the Ravsak Journal, we reprint this article on leadership written by  Wexner Foundation staff Or Mars, Director, Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program, and Rabbi Jay Henry Moses, Director, Wexner Heritage Program. Both are Alumni of The Wexner Graduate Fellowship. Cultivating excellence in the next generation of Jewish leaders can be compared to the work of a casting director in Hollywood. Through the course of her day the casting

Last Thursday evening, the 25th of June, 2015, in Caesarea, 39 senior leaders from across the Israeli civil service were awarded two certificates – one from The Wexner Foundation and the other from the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education. The certificates will serve as an eternal reminder of an unforgettable and meaningful experience. As we look back at the amazing process that we have been a part of, culminating

Faye with her brother Gordon and nephew Mitchell The hardest film shoot I ever produced was one I was mostly absent for.   Just before Shavuot two years ago, I sat shiva for my brother, Gordon. He had suffered for 14 months with terminal cancer, holding on through a combination of remarkable support from his shul community, high-level care at Johns Hopkins, and his iron will to imprint more memories