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David J. Rudis is a Wexner Heritage Alumnus from Chicago. David has been a banker for over 30 years (he assures us he isn’t the fat cat everyone is talking about). He has been active in a variety of Jewish leadership positions and is currently working with fellow Wexner Heritage alums Elisa Bildner and Danny Krifcher to make the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) the pre- eminent objective voice of the

Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is Executive Director of the Movement for Reform Judaism in the UK and an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class 1). Shoshana can be reached at: shoshana123@hotmail.com. “Are all of your friends so interesting?” This question emerged from the mouth of one of the British university students who I recently took on a leadership trip to NYC. The purpose of bringing these 10 young people

Dr. Michael Kay is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class 16).  He is the Director of Judaic Studies for the Upper School of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, MD.  He can be reached at makay@post.harvard.edu. In our circles, we speak often about the notion of “community leadership.”  And while we spend a great deal of time analyzing the ways in which “leadership” has

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class 1). She is Executive Director of the Movement for Reform Judaism in the UK.  In some ways, it was inevitable that Limmud and Wexner would intersect one day. They are, in some ways, like twins separated at birth; similar genetics, but different upbringings. For example, they differ significantly in their target audiences: Wexner is unabashedly elite,

Ellen Bob is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program from San Francisco. She co-owned bob and bob fine jewish gifts and books in Northern California for 26 years. Ellen is working for Camp Ramah in California to create a camp in the Northern half of the state. She can be reached at ellenbob@gmail.com. One of the things I love about the stories of Genesis is that we often learn

Allan Finkelstein is President and CEO of the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.  Allan can be reached at JCCAL@jcca.org. At the end of Ha’azinu, this week’s Torah portion, Moses comes down from the mountain and concludes his instructions to the Israelites and says,” Take to your heart all the words that I have warned you this day.  Enjoin them upon your children that they may observe faithfully all

Alan Solow is Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and JCC Association of North America. He is also a trustee of UJC, a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, a member of the Board of Sinai Health Systems and a board member at CLAL. Professionally, he is the Vice Chair of the Restructuring Group at DLA Piper LLP (US),

Donna Gerson is a member of the Pittsburgh 07 Wexner Heritage Class. She is a contributing editor for Student Lawyer magazine, an American Bar Association publication, and also writes for Thomson Reuters. She can be reached at donna@donnagerson.com    In March, my husband and I quit the Conservative shul that we belonged to for nearly 10 years. While the popular (but banal) aphorism – “winners never quit and quitters never

Leslie Ginsparg, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus (Class 16), is a Professor of Jewish History at Touro College. She can be reached at Ginsparg@comcast.net When I announced to family and friends that I was going to Germany as part of a Germany Close Up/American Jewish Committee student trip, I kept hearing the same response: don’t spend any money there. The reasoning behind and the implication of that imperative was obvious.

Joey Asch is an alumnus of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program and is a senior prosecutor in the criminal division of the District Attorney’s Office in Jerusalem.  He has also lectured numerous times on “Law and Terrorism” for various organizations in the U.S.  He can be reached at joey@justice.gov.il. I live in a mixed community (religious and non-religious) on a cliff overlooking Nachal Prat (known to most as “Wadi Kelt”),