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Elul 6: A Generational Plan for Prosperity, by Eric Garcetti   My family’s story in Los Angeles begins humbly. One side of my family crossed an ocean to flee persecution in Poland and Russia. The other half crossed a border to escape war in Mexico. Both sides were looking for a better life and they were able to find it in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. As I

JEWELS OF ELUL Craig Taubman has been compiling  Jewels of Elul since 2005. His unusual mix of thoughtful contributors includes scholars, politicians and poets, as well as, many Wexner faculty and alumni.  Click here to receive a Jewel a Day.     PREPENT 5774 Amichai Lau-Lavie writes a 40 day blog with daily tools, tasks, and intentions to get you focused and ready for a new year. Get a daily

“Jerusalem has greatly sinned, therefore she is become a mockery. All who admired her despise her, for they have seen her disgraced; and she can only sigh and shrink back.”  –Eicha (Lamentations) 1:8   The first 9 days of Av are seen in traditional Judaism as days of, if not mourning, then solemnity. We do not feast, we do not celebrate; we are once again living through the days leading

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There are moments that are (as my father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach would say) “Beyond the Beyond” — moments of infinite, abundant, joy and truth, where we can fully access the power of who we are.  Shavuot is a time when we are supposed to head to the Mountain, to try to receive the word of G-d, to go beyond the beyond. Personally, I beg for these moments, live for them,

Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff is an alumnus of The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, (Class 13). Stephen has been Executive Director of the 14th Street Y in New York City since 2007. He also serves as Founding Director of LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture which is housed at the Y. He writes and teaches widely on the intersection of traditional texts, the arts, popular culture, education, and Jewish communal

Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna, (Class 13) who works at Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Life in Glencoe, Illinois. She also serves as the Director of the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism and is the Executive Director of the National Organization of American Mohalim.   She received master’s degrees from the University of Judaism and from Harvard Graduate School of Education and was ordained as

Richard is a Chicago alumnus of The Wexner Heritage Program. He is Vice President of Development at Sinai Health System in Chicago. This is a slightly revised version of a D’Var Torah Richard recently delivered at a Board meeting of North Suburban Synagogue Beth EL in Highland Park, IL. Richard can be reached at richard.zelin@sinai.org.  Bereshit is one of my favorite books of the Torah. It is filled with rich

Sam is a San Francisco 11 Wexner Heritage member and the California Program Director for the Conservation Lands Foundation where he works to protect the wild lands and rivers of the American West. He serves on the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation and is a new member of the board of Wilderness Torah. Sam can be reached at samuelrgoldman@gmail.com. The news coming out the day

Noah is a Wexner Heritage Atlanta alumnus. He retired from the Jewish Federation of Atlanta after 30 years of service to the community. This D’var Torah was written for the JFGA Weekly in August. Noah can be reached at l_noah@bellsouth.net. As we begin Deuteronomy with the reading of D’varim, we notice that for a man almost 120 years old Moses can’t always remember his facts, especially since he was speaking