Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
May 2007
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
Mar 2007
Shira D. Epstein, Ed.D, an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Education at Jewish Theological Seminary. She can be reached at shira_epstein@yahoo.com. I was cast at the age of thirteen in two different productions of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” This is not surprising. If you study, work in, or support Jewish camps, youth groups, day schools, or retirement homes, chances are that
Apr 2004
Cindy Chazan is Vice President and Alumni and Community Development for The Wexner Foundation. Cindy can be reached at cchazan@wexner.net. How ironic that this column is being written before Passover only to be read in an issue that will come after the holiday. How also ironic that this column is called “I’ve Been Thinking…” when at this very moment I crave thinking time…except to think: how will I get it