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Steven is a current Miami Wexner Heritage member. He serves on the local boards of Beth Torah Congregation, AJC, UMiami Hillel and the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He also serves nationally on the Jewish Federations of North America Board of Trustees. Steven is the Principal of Inspire WiFi, a nationwide provider of WiFi networks for apartment communities and hospitals. Steven can be reached at sscheck@inspirewifi.com. “Our flight was canceled!” This

Laura Sheinkopf is an alumna of the Wexner Graudate Fellowship, Class IX and a graduate of Columbia University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.  She  is the Director of Publicity at Bright Sky Books and lives in Houston with her two children Max and Isabel.  Rabbi Sheinkopf can be reached at rabbilms@yahoo.com. As I made my way to the drag queen club that evening the line from “Angels in

Jonathan Spira-Savett is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class III.  He is Rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua, New Hampshire and has been a teen educator and active in the Jewish teen philanthropy movement.  Jon blogs, he shares Torah, and podcasts at rabbijon.com.  He can be reached at spirasavett@yahoo.com. For my first thirteen years after ordination, I was either about third in the hierarchy of a day

Don Seeman is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumnus of Class IX.  He is an Associate Professor at Emory University, and holds a joint appointment in Jewish Ethnography with the Department of Religion and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies.  His publications include: “‘Where is Sarah Your Wife’: Cultural Poetics of Gender and Nationhood in the Hebrew Bible,” in Harvard Theological Review 91:2 (1998); “‘One People, One Blood’:

Amy Deutsch is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class XIX.  She can be reached at amyleahdeutsch@gmail.com. In the week before my Wexner Graduate Fellowship interview, I took a cruise with my husband (then fiancé—we had just gotten engaged). We were about three days into the cruise when, in the middle of the night, the ship alarm went off. Before we knew it, we were being told to

Jon Levisohn is an alumnus of Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class X.  He is Assistant Academic Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, where he is also Assistant Professor of Jewish Education.  He is the author of The Interpretive Virtues: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of Historical Narratives (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming) and the co-editor with Sue Fendrick a Wexner Graduate Fellow, Class

Alan is an alumnus of the Los Angeles/Bear Stearns (1997-99) Wexner Heritage Program.  He can be reached at alan.abrahamson@gmail.com. I am a sportswriter. My specialty is the Olympics. The question I get asked the most goes like this: “Since the Olympics take place every four years, what do you do the rest of the time?”  I gently explain that for nearly 20 years now the Olympics have been taking place

Amit David is a Wexner Israel Fellow, Class 22. Today is Amit’s commencement day at Harvard. He will receive a master’s degree in public administration. Upon receiving his degree, Amit will to return to Israel where he will continue his lifelong service in the Israeli Defense Force. He can be reached at david.amit@gmail.com. The following is a journal account of Amit’s trek to the 2011 Boston Marathon. July 12, 2010

Joe is a Wexner Heritage (Philadelphia 1) alumnus . He collaborated with Jerry L. Jennings to write I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth (Xlibris 2009), from which this piece is adapted. Joe can be reached at JFinkelstein@BlankRome.com.  On May 5 of each year, my father, Sol Finkelstein, declares, “Today is my birthday.” Although he was born in September, Sol counts the start of his life

Akiva Herzfeld is an alumnus of Wexner Graduate Fellowship Class XVI and and a graduate of YCT Rabbinical School. He is the rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh in Portland, Maine, rabbiherzfeld@gmail.com When the angel of death came to take away the life of Shloime Feivel ben Rav Moishe Ahrun, Sid Levine, Sid fought him off with a smile, a few old Jewish jokes, and with a needle and thread. Sid