30th Anniversary Videos

We are excited to share with you a collection of all the presentations we filmed at our 30th Anniversary, April 26 - 27, 2015 in Columbus, Ohio.

 

VIDEOS ​OF GENERAL SESSIONS FROM
THE 30th​ ANNIVERSARY

• The Wexner Foundation 30th Anniversary ​Highlight ​Video 
• The Opening Plenary featured President Rabbi Elka Abrahamson and our ​Co-​Chairman and Founder, Leslie H. Wexner.
• A Conversation between Shimon Peres and David Gergen from the 30th Anniversary gala.
• The ​Change Leaders ​​Forum featured Patti Bellinger, Sasha Chanoff, Mike Feinberg, Jonathan Greenblatt and Foundation Co-Chairman Abigail S. Wexner.
• The Closing Plenary featured President Rabbi Elka Abrahamson and our co-chairman and founder, Leslie H. Wexner.

 

VIDEOS ​OF LEADING TOWARDS CHANGE SESSIONS FROM THE 30th​ ANNIVERSARY FILMED ON MONDAY, APRIL 2​7, 2015

• Going For Prophet? The Unconventional Journey from Educator to Solar Impact Investor with Yosef I. Abramowitz
• New Skin for the Old Ceremony: On Reimagining Jewish Communal Life Because of and Despite of the Past with Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff
• The People's Voice After 13 Years: Lessons Learned with Ami Ayalon
• You Can Make Change Wherever You Are with Shifra Bronznick
• Bang Your Head on the Glass Ceiling … and Anything Else That Gets in the Way!!! with Rachel Garbow Monroe
• Tapping Social Innovation to Energize Jewish Organizations with Jonathan Greenblatt
• Re-Envisioning Jewish Life: A Start-Up Approach with Rabbi Elie Kaunfer​
• Challenging the Activist Values of the Jewish People: Striking a Balance between Being Jewish and Doing Jewish with Janice Kamenir-Reznik
• From Vision to Fruition: 15 Lessons from Hazon’s First 15 Years with Nigel Savage
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• The Building of An Orthodox Social Justice Movement with Dr. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
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• The Adaptive Challenge for Israeli Society: Arabs and Jews – Appropriate Employment as a Condition for a Shared Society with the alumni of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Class 24

 

VIDEOS ​OF ​ LEADING TOWARDS KEDUSHA SESSIONS FROM THE 30th​ ANNIVERSARY FILMED ON MONDAY, APRIL 2​7, 2015

• Dignifying the Individual within Community: The Holiness of Personal Space with Dr. Erica Brown
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• How to Live in Holiness/Whole-i-ness with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
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• How to Say “You’re Wrong” and “I’m Sorry”: Essential Leadership Lessons with Professor Deborah Lipstadt
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• Above and Beyond: Taking the Law into Our Own Hands with Arna Poupko Fisher
  
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• The Righteous Jewish Mind: Why Jewish Leaders Disagree with Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
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• Can a Leader Evolve? What Moses’ Career Can Teach Us About Our Own with Michael A. Kay, PhD
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• Taking Our Bones with Us: The Role of the Past in Mapping the Jewish Future with Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, PhD
  
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•  Leadership & Language: Take Shabbat, for Instance with Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
  
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• Five Critical (and Self-Critical) Qualities of Jewish Leadership with Rabbi Aaron Panken
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• The Blessings of a Vulnerable Life with Rabbi Shira Stutman
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• Sacred Choices – Pluralism, Integrity and Community: You Can’t Have Them All with Rabbi Ethan Tucker
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VIDEO CONTENT FROM THE 30th ANNIVERSARY

• Click here to view the videos shown at the 30th Anniversary, including the tribute video "A Vision Realized" produced for the 30th Anniversary Gala