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Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
Oct 2007
Michael Jacobs is a writer whose work has appeared on and off Broadway, television and film, including thirteen television series that have won Emmys and People’s Choice Awards. The shows include “My Two Dads” and “Charles In Charge.” He and his wife, Patti, also a Wexner alum, consider their Wexner experience one of the most rewarding of their lives. He can be reached at MSJ26@aol.com As a writer, certain use
Oct 2007
Rabbi Brett Krichiver is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. He is a Rabbi at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles. He can be reached at brett330@gmail.com. This week we begin with a beginning. I’ve always found two particular things compelling about this most famous of all opening lines. According to the Masoretic tradition, we begin chanting this most holy of holy books with… a grammatical error. A vowel
Margaret Jelinek Lewis is a Houston 06 member of the Wexner Heritage Program. She is a psychology professor at Tomball College who recently welcomed her new community to her home to celebrate the bris of her son, Ahron. Margaret can be reached at msjlewis@mac.com. All of my adult life, I have lived in do-it-yourself Jewish communities: small congregations that depend on lay leadership to build the community. Recently, though, we moved
Sep 2007
Deb Housen-Couriel is Director of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program and herself an alumna of the program. She can be reached at dhousencouriel@wexner.net “Never again has there arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Almighty had known face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharoah and to all his
Miriam Prum Hess is a Vice President of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation and Director of Day School Operations for its Bureau of Jewish Education. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Mark, and two children Eliana and Ezra, who both attend day school. She invites you to contact her for more information on starting Concierge programs in your community. She can be reached at or mprumhess@bjela.org. The double
During the Yizkor service on Yom Kippur, it is the custom in our congregation that as the name of each person who died during the previous year is read, their loved ones stand to indicate their status as mourners* to the rest of the congregation. This part of the service takes several minutes. If you must stand though, it feels like an eternity until the rest of the congregation rises
Sep 2007
During the Yizkor service on Yom Kippur, it is the custom in our congregation that as the name of each person who died during the previous year is read, their loved ones stand to indicate their status as mourners* to the rest of the congregation. This part of the service takes several minutes. If you must stand though, it feels like an eternity until the rest of the congregation rises
Paul Sunshine, a current Wexner Heritage Member from San Francisco, is a donor to the Machiah Fellowship, on the steering committee of the Young Funders’ Forum of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, serves on the board of the Northern California Innocence Projects, and is active with American Jewish World Service. He can be reached at paulsunshine@sbcglobal.net Last month, I participated in the Wexner Heritage Israel Institute. One of the most
Seth Krosner, a Wexner Heritage alumnus from San Diego, is a trauma surgeon. He is active in Jewish Education, synagogue leadership and is serving as Chair of “JPride,” an outreach committee to the Jewish LGBT community of San Diego. He can be reached at DocSMK@aol.com. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. Always remember that you were a slave
Dr. Nina Butler is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and can be reached at nbutler@avichaina.org. After spending 25 of the last 30 years working at the school next-door, the last seven as principal, she is now the national Educational Consultant to the AVI CHAI Foundation, commuting the 400 miles from Pittsburgh to Manhattan. Note: When Brigitte coaxed me into writing this D’var Torah, she could not have anticipated that