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It was with absolute delight, and déjà vu, that 21 Wexner alumni and some spouses of the San Diego Heritage classes met this past week to study with Rabbi Nathan Laufer.   What a treat!  Rabbi Laufer, the former president and CEO of the Wexner Heritage Foundation, was visiting San Diego and we were honored to have the opportunity to offer our fellow alumni the chance to learn together with

The distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco is roughly 1.2 miles. About a 15-minute ferry ride. That lonely, iconic island in the middle of the Bay is not very far from the city at all, but when I stood on the small beach just below Ghirardelli Square and looked out, when my toes curled in protest in the icy water and I struggled to yank the zipper of my wetsuit

My second child (and first son) was born just one hour before kick-off on Super Bowl Sunday in 2005.  From that point on, I knew I would always have an affinity for this momentous day in American life.  Little did I know that I would one day live in North Carolina, where people greet each other during the NFL season with the Panthers’ motto, “Keep pounding,” and where Super Bowl

  Reprinted with thanks to ejewishphilantrhopy.com We all want our board members to be focused on development – to do those solicitations! So it’s not surprising that solicitation training is the most requested board training. However, we can’t stop there if we want our donors to renew their gifts next year. We need our board to be trained on and focusing on stewardship as well. Stewardship is all about maintaining and

Here we are again at New Year’s Eve.  Tonight, all around the secular world, we celebrate our last gasp of bacchanal revelry and exuberance for the year. We don gay apparel and stay up late to prove that we still have the stamina of youth. Alternately, we lament that we no longer have the tenacity to stay awake until midnight. At some point, we rejoice in pajamas and the comfort

For me, leadership, besides making empires rise and fall, is also about being able to communicate with both the dark side and the resistance and hoping the Force will always stay on your side. The Star Wars movies have a great deal of it all: love and trust, continuity, innovation, robust friendships, hard choices and strong female leadership, which reminds us that we all are born Jedi, and definitely capable

From the Winter 2015 issue of HaYidion, on Athletics; reprinted by permission of RAVSAK  At the end of a long workday, I dragged my heels up the staircase to the cafeteria of my children’s day school for the JV basketball team parent orientation. Expecting a review of schedule and logistics, I wasn’t totally present as Coach D began addressing the parents, although I tucked my phone away out of respect.

Photo and article reprinted with permission from The Jewish Journal I have a vivid memory of sitting in my yeshiva high school principal’s office, imploring him to start teaching the girls Mishnah and Gemara, to offer a little more respect to our intellects and our souls by giving us access to all the Jewish texts that form the basis of our heritage, of what we were expected to live every

Pictured from left to right: Amy Beren Bressman (NY/Sidley), Adam Beren (Chicago II-99, commuting from Wichita), Nancy Beren (Houston) and Julie Beren Platt (LA/Bear Stearns). In a recent conversation with WHA Nancy Beren (Houston), she mentioned in passing that her sisters and brother were ALL Wexner Heritage alumni. “How many are you?” I asked with an excited smile. “Four,” she answered. “What?” I said incredulously, “all four?” It dawned on me