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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Video reposted from ELI Talks. A few months ago, Shmuly Yanklowitz donated a kidney to a complete stranger. How much can and should we give of ourselves? Shmuly Yanklowitz, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alum (Class 19), is President and Dean of the Valley Beit Midrash. He is also the founder and president of Uri L’Tzedek and the founder and CEO of The Shamayim V’Aretz Insitute. Rav Shmuly completed his Master’s at
Feb 2016
I’ve heard that for those who come to use the mikveh (ritual bath) with ImmerseNYC and other community mikvaot across the country, one of the most powerful aspects is the embodied experience of feeling fully accepted and enveloped in the warm water. Our lay-led planning team for Water and Wine, ImmerseNYC’s launch event, attempted to replicate that experience for attendees. We wanted to send the message that through various life
Feb 2016
There is nothing that bothers me more than people who complain but never take action to change things. This generally stems from a lack of leadership. In the face of criticism that the Los Angeles Jewish community was not doing enough to train effective new communal leaders, I decided to create a new program. After two years of planning, the development of a creative funding strategy and the hiring of
Feb 2016
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
Feb 2016
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
Feb 2016
Top row, from left to right: Ra’anan Avital, Director General – The Wexner Foundation, Israel; Tal Winbrom, Manager, Wexner Senior Leaders; Ido Nehushtan, Chair, Advisory Committee for The Wexner Foundation, Israel Office; Tania Boguslavsky, WSL (’16); Bottom row, from left to right: Moshe Dayan, Civil Service Commissioner; Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel. The second cohort of Wexner Senior Leaders (WSL ’16) cohort was hosted last week by the President of
Feb 2016
I’m sure it won’t shock you, as part of the Wexner network, that this story begins on a buffet line. This particular buffet line was at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem last summer. Before the Wexner Heritage Summer Institute was scheduled to begin that evening, I had arranged a few meetings to plan a new grant. My morning consisted of an appointment with Dr. Yafa Haron, head of the
Jan 2016
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
The Community Foundation for Jewish Education of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (CFJE) is tasked with, among other things, improving support for some 50 congregational education programs in the Chicagoland area. I have long been concerned that congregational education is not engaging kids with meaningful curricula and compelling teachers. I know there is great work being done across the Wexner network on improving what we all formerly referred