Located in New Albany, Ohio
Apr 2012
Rebecca Meyer Carr is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna, (Class III) and the Manager of the Patient Services department of HelpHOPELive, a nonprofit organization providing fundraising guidance to transplant and catastrophic injury patients. Rebecca can be reached at: rebeccamcarr@verizon.net. For many of us, asking for money is just part of what we do in our daily work lives. No matter how much training we’ve been given, or how often we’ve
Apr 2012
Gordon is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class I. He is currently serving in his twentieth year as Rabbinic Director at the Milken Community High School of Stephen Wise Temple. Gordon can be reached at gbernat- kunin@milkenschool.org Imagine a highly accomplished Jewish day school senior on her way to her Harvard interview. As she reviews her activities and achievements, pondering what might make her stand out, her
Apr 2012
Paula is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XI, and has served as rabbi at the Orangetown Jewish Center in Orangeburg, New York since ordination from JTS in 2004. Paula can be reached at: pmdrill@aol.com. When Jordan and I began his bar mitzvah lessons, I took a Torah from the ark, placed it into Jordan’s arms and asked him to repeat after me, “This is MY Torah.” I
Apr 2012
Jodi is an Atlanta 05 Wexner Heritage alumna. She is an urban planner who works at Jamestown Development and Construction on new urbanist development projects. She connects her volunteers and values through direct service work in the community and by serving on the boards of Limmud Atlanta+SE and Repair the World. Jodi can be reached at jodi.mansbach@gmail.com. I’d venture to say that for most participants in a Wexner program, engaging
Mar 2012
Lisa, a member of the East Bay 10 Wexner Heritage Program, is an editor at Literary Mama . She serves as Board Secretary of the Contra Costa Jewish Day School in Lafayette, California. She is also a member of the Jewish Federation of the East Bay’s Women’s Philanthropy Board. Lisa can be reached at llmo@yahoo.com. Put 40 Jewish education leaders in a room and surround them with good food
Mar 2012
Robert Chazan has served for 25 years as the Chair of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Selection Committee, and he is an S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; Director, Wagner-Skirball Dual Degree Program and Co-Director, Doctoral Program in Education and Jewish Studies. In August 1985, Rabbi Maurice Corson, newly appointed as President of the recently created Wexner
Michael is a graduate student at Emory University getting his PhD in American Religious Cultures. His work focuses on North American Jews and therapeutic culture. He is a Fellow of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory, and an alumnus of the Atlanta 2005 Wexner Heritage Program. Purim was wonderful this year. My three children really get into the joy of the holiday. They eagerly anticipate shaloch manot deliveries,
Mar 2012
David A. Mersky is Managing Director of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that solves problems in marketing, communication and resource development for non-profit organizations and private businesses. He can be reached at: www.merskyjaffe.com. The single most important committee of a nonprofit organization’s board is its committee on governance and leadership development (whatever it may be called). It is charged with identifying and successfully engaging the future leadership
Mar 2012
Barb, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna of Class IV, is the Director of Education at Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the mother of three inspirational teenagers. Barb can be reached at: barbg@timemphis.org. I had a personal milestone recently. My youngest child became bar mitzvah. People were congratulating me and joking that the next big thing I would have to do is a wedding. It made me laugh, and
Mar 2012
Liz is a current Wexner Graduate Fellow (Class XXIII) and a second-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR in New York. Liz can be reached at lizraeli@gmail.com. I have been thinking about what makes a text holy. At my core, I am a librarian’s daughter. So during winter vacation, when I reorganized all of the books in my room, I arranged them topically, like a microcosmic and eclectic Dewey Decimal system. Various