Bronfman Youth Fellowship Announces Alumni Venture Fund Grantees
The 21 Winter 2013 grantees are:
Social Responsibility
Ariela Rothstein – Encuentros Community School (Queens, NY)
Kassandra Loewen – Huron’s Born This Way Campaign (London, Ontario)
Jaime Korman – Home 2 Home (Palo Alto, CA)
Irit Feingold – Journey to Ethiopia (Israel), Encouraging Ethiopian Israelis to explore their roots – through a trip back to “the Old Country”
Yulia Forshil – The Other (Israel)
Shira Engel – cOMmunity Yoga School (New York), Imagining a new kind of yoga training, committed to social justice
Jewish Learning
Josh Foer – Sefaria (California), Revolutionizing Jewish learning through an online library of sacred Jewish texts
Jess Radin – Beginning and Belonging: Transnational Adoption in the Jewish Commmunity (NYC)
Hannah Kapnik Ashar – Come & Listen (Denver, CO)
Alixandra Kriegsman – Between the Lines: A Documentary (NYC), Challenging paradigms of Israel education in a documentary film
Maya Rosen – Netzitzot (Princeton, NJ), Distributing Jewish innovation, in the form of specially made women’s Tzitzit
Yair Agmon – The Scribbled Chumash (Israel)
Uri Sefarai – Daroma: Beit Midrash (Israel)
Arts & Culture
Andy Neiman – ACCORDING TO JOE Workshop (Chicago, IL), Debuting a uniquely Jewish play – about Joseph of Nazareth
Noa Silver – “An American Tale” Play Reading (Berkeley, CA)
Eli Battalion – Yidlife Crisis (Montreal, Quebec), Making a film about a midlife crisis – in Yiddish
Ellie Gettinger – Jewish Museum of Milwaukee “After Hours” (Milwaukee, WI), Bringing young Jews into a Midwestern Jewish museum – where the average member is 65 years old
Ari Allen – Washington University Jewish Film Festival (St. Louis, MO)
Lior Zalmonson – Memory and Forgetting: A Print Screen Conference (Israel)
About: The Bronfman Fellowships is a vibrant network of 1,000 young Jews from Israel and North America that includes some of today’s most inspiring Jewish writers, thinkers and leaders. The Fellowships, founded by philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman in 1987, taps future influencers at a formative point in their lives, before college, and immerses them in an intensive exploration of Jewish text study, pluralism and social responsibility.