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WANTED: More Spaces to Harness Leadership Talent

Posted on May 5, 2013 Written by
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by Justin Korda The application process for the ROI Summit is simultaneously one of the best and hardest times of the year for me - best because it reinforces the incredible young Jewish talent coming of age in communities around the world; hardest because I'm reminded that the Jewish world still does not have enough compelling opportunities to nurture all of it. Until we do, far too many young Jews who want to contribute to strengthening the Jewish future will be told “no, but” rather than “yes, and.” Faced with a negative response, many will choose to focus their time and talent elsewhere - a loss for them and for our community. … [Read more...]

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The 2013 Paideia Project-Incubator is Now Open for Applications

Posted on April 17, 2013 Written by
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The Paideia Project-Incubator fosters social innovation in Jewish Europe, as the only pan-European program of its kind. According to a 2010 survey, the PI has fostered more projects for Jewish Europe than any other program. The program brings together social innovators from 12-15 different European countries in a highly intensive program, both intellectually and practically. Participants are invited from a variety of different areas: communal life, the arts, environmentalism, journalism, museums, education, social care, intercultural life, theatre and religious life. They represent established institutions as well as new grass-roots initiatives. The program consists of workshops, seminars, networking, tutoring, peer review and interaction with funding professionals. Staff, who are involved … [Read more...]

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Seeking Inspiration at the ROI Summit in Jerusalem

Posted on June 18, 2012 Written by
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by Abigail Pickus Andrea Kasper dreamed of a new kind of Jewish high school. The kind where the emphasis would be on doing and creating. The kind where the classroom would be the rolling fields and the carpenter’s workshop and the dance studio. The kind where what matters is not AP scores or getting into an Ivy League university, but growing the vegetables for lunch or building the chairs for the students to sit on. The kind of place where Hebrew wouldn’t be written on chalkboards to be memorized by rote, but would be infused organically into every aspect of the learning, along with the Talmud and the Torah. The kind of place she has yet to see in the Jewish world in North America. “Yadaim Academy of Applied Academic’s vision is to increase the diversity and types of Jewish high … [Read more...]

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Natan’s Jewish Peoplehood Grants

Posted on March 18, 2012 Written by

This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 7 – Reinvigorating Jewish Peoplehood: The Philanthropic Perspective; published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education. by Felicia Herman The Natan Fund is a grantmaking foundation funded by young philanthropists who pool their philanthropic resources and make grants together to emerging Israeli and Jewish nonprofits and social entrepreneurs around the world. Since a small group of young professionals founded Natan in late 2002, the foundation has granted $7.77 million to 129 organizations and individuals in Israel and around the Jewish world. Natan is a giving collaborative, and thus its grantmaking reflects the aggregate philanthropic interests of its members (primarily young professionals in New York). Natan’s particular focus … [Read more...]

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Toward the Miraculous Future: A Chanukiya of Predictions for 2012

Posted on December 21, 2011 Written by
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“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein “Daddy, how do we know it REALLY was a miracle, not just that somebody counted the oil the wrong way?"  Morgan Cohen, age 9 For the serious adult student, Chanukah presents interesting questions about Jewish history, the challenge of heroic narrative and the complexities of a Jewish authority. But for a nine year old, a simple question belies its profound impact: was it really a miracle that the oil burned for eight nights? This question, asked last week by my daughter Morgan, has been burning in my head ever since, especially as I prepared my annual list of predictions for the coming year. In many ways, 2011 was a year filled with surprises that, despite the … [Read more...]

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Camps for Volunteerism

Posted on October 10, 2011 Written by
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Camps for Volunteerism: reshaping the future by Anna Litovskaya While having tea with my groupmate Olga Savchuk at Paideia (The European institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden), we started sharing our backgrounds. I had just graduated from the International Relations department of the Linguistic University, Russia, while Savchuk is an ecology student at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Yet we had something in common: the experience of going abroad to volunteer at Jewish camps. I did social work in Spain and Israel, some farming in the Czech Republic and Russia, and volunteered as an interpreter, while she had worked as an educator for Jewish camps every summer. Then we came up with an idea: to create a volunteer Jewish summer camp that would reshape Jewish life in Ukraine. The vision behind the … [Read more...]

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