Posted on Monday, November 11, 2019 by Dr. Tali Zelkowicz
Although adaptability and adaptive leadership share a root or shoresh, and although you will see both addressed by authors in this issue of WexnerLEADS, the two are not synonymous. Adaptability is one component in a constellation of interdependent leadership (and life) skills. Judaism, for example, has been adaptable. It has also remained rooted in significant ways so that it still makes sense to call it Judaism, 2,000 years of change later. While Adaptability is being able to adjust to…
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Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2019 by Lesley Matsa
“Exercising adaptive leadership requires that you be willing and competent at stepping into the unknown and stirring things up. Most people prefer stability to chaos, clarity to confusion, and orderliness to conflict. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict, for yourself and others around you.” –The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ron Heifetz, Alexander Grashow and Marty Linsky In…
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Posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2019 by Core Summit on Gender Team - Angie Atkins, Rabbi Jay Henry Moses, Dana Savoray-Hadar, Ruthie Warshenbrot
Wexner Summits: The Network In Action is a platform for alumni of all Wexner leadership initiatives to connect, learn and collaborate across our network. Through Summits, Wexner Alumni are exercising leadership by strategizing and stacking hands to take action that moves the needle on the key challenges facing the North American Jewish Community and the State of Israel. The Summit on Gender Safety and Equity, our fifth Summit, was conceived to address the systemic issues that contribute to discr…
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Posted on Tuesday, November 05, 2019 by Moshe Kinley Tur-Paz
I was nine when my mother told me we would be leaving Israel for a year to join my father, at the time a shaliach with the Jewish agency in London. I was looking forward to the family reunion, but then tearfully asked, "How will I do there? I don't know any English and I do not know any children there my age." My mother looked at me with her beautiful brown eyes and said simply, "You’re a smart child. You are friendly. You'll be fine." She was right. Not s…
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Posted on Monday, November 04, 2019 by Malka Fleischmann
As most of my nearest and dearest know, I am an avid YouTuber. In recent months, I have relied on YouTube to teach me a variety of complex needlepoint stitches, to replace a lost manual for a kitchen gadget, to verse myself in beginner’s guitar and to dive down a rabbit hole of TED Talks. Unfortunately, YouTube is also a trusted home of anti-Semitic content. Fringe evangelical preacher firebrands on YouTube have become an especially powerful force in the news diet of some evan…
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Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2019 by Justus Baird
If adaptability is seen as a core element of modern leadership practice, surely a key aspect of that practice is knowing when to adapt to what is going on around you and when to hold steady because what is going on around you is not good. One of the enduring tensions I have explored in my own life is between shaping the world toward a vision, pursuing a prophetic ideal (on the one hand) versus accepting "this is the way things are" and finding "flow" within the reality around me tha…
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Posted on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 by Michelle Lynn-Sachs
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Posted on Friday, October 18, 2019 by Becca Thomas
Rabbi Nathan Laufer, President Emeritus of The Wexner Foundation, shared that his father, Max Laufer, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who rebuilt his life in the United States after World War II, passed away recently at the age of 93. He was buried in Petach Tikvah, Israel, his home for the past 14 years. In addition to Rabbi Laufer, he leaves behind a daughter, eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Because his passing occurred during Sukkot, the Shiva, which will take place…
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Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019 by Tracy Juran
We just completed the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur also known as the Ten Days of Repentance. It’s easy to get lost in the monotony and continuity of the everyday, but during significant periods, I can’t help but contemplate where I’ve been and where I want to go. Even perhaps more accurately, who I am and who I want to be. As Jews we’re taught to ‘show up’ for one another, to commemorate beginnings and ends – a marriage, a divorce, a miles…
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Posted on Monday, October 07, 2019 by Guy Avrutzky
An article about systemic challenges of the social services system in Israel was recently written by Wexner Israel Fellow Guy Avrutzky (Class 31) and Rani Dudai (Director of ELKA in JDC Israel) and published here in the last fall edition of the esteemed Stanford Social Innovation Review. In the article, Guy and Rani use the challenges of resolution 922, (the five-year plan of the Israeli Government to invest NIS 15 billion – $4 billion – in Arab municipalities,) to demonstrate t…
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