The Latest From The Foundation

Wendy Berger Shapiro is a current member of the Wexner Heritage Program. Wendy is President of WBS Equities, LLC, a real estate development company specializing in development of build-to-suit “green” buildings and industrial buildings for food and beverage companies. She can be reached at wendy@wbsequities.com. The City of Chicago is currently among the four finalist cities bidding to host the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympics can be

Elisa Spungen Bildner is an alumna of Wexner Heritage from MetroWest. She is a member of the Wexner Heritage Alumni Council and she and her husband Rob, also a Wexner Heritage alumnus, are founders of the Foundation for Jewish Camping. Elisa was one of ten women honored by Jewish Women International in Washington, DC last week.  Tucked away in the chaos that is my closet, in a white felt jewelry

Nina Gelfand Harris, M.A. LCSW, is a social worker in private practice specializing in adolescents and over the summer is the Camp Social Worker at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. She is a member of the Chicago 06 Wexner Heritage Group.  Nina can be reached at AHarris772@aol.com.  I have been involved in Jewish communal work for as long as I can remember.  To pay my bills  in college and graduate school, I held

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, is the spiritual leader of Congregation Anshe Sholom Bnai Israel in Chicago, a modern Orthodox synagogue which strives to create a non-judgmental, welcoming environment for all Jews.  He is married to Rachel Tessler Lopatin, a Wexner Graduate and Wexner Heritage alumna, and they have four children. He can be reached at rabbi@asbi.org My wife Rachel and I were all