Bronfman Fellowships & Amitei Bronfman Alumni Venture Fund distributes $25,000 in Alumni Micro-Grants
This year, our 21 grantees will be:
Bringing Yiddish into the 21st century….
- Eli Batalion (BYFI ’97) – YidLife Crisis (Montreal, Quebec)
LGBTQ Advocacy in Israel….
- Lior Soroka (Amitim ’99) – The Normal Heart (Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Asaf Zagrizak (Amitim ’08) – Study Day on LGBTQ community and Reform Judaism (Jerusalem, Israel)
- Maayan Furth (Amitim ’06) – A Gay Pride Student Group in Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
Exploring the politics of food….
- Elisheva Goldberg (BYFI ’05) – Food Justice Salon (Jerusalem, Israel)
Preparing students for college….
- Elisabeth Cohen (BYFI ’01) – Ramp up for College Students for Enrichment in Secondary Schools College (Boston, MA)
Bringing literature to the workplace….
- Rachel Burstein (BYFI ’99) – Books@Work for female parolees in East Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
Encouraging creativity in underserved populations….
- Edie Joseph (BYFI ’07) – Hearing Youth Voices: Writings from Connecticut Youth in Foster Care (Connecticut)
Creating a virtual community of donors….
- Anya Manning (BYFI ’02) – MatchMe (Virtual)
Making Tzitzit accessible for all genders….
- Maya Rosen (BYFI ’11) – Netzitzot: Tzitzit Designed for Women (Virtual)
Helping the neediest in Jerusalem….
- Yarden Mendelson (Amitim ’03) – Connections (Jerusalem, Israel)
Connecting modern day slavery to the Passover seder….
- Lev Meirowitz Nelson (BYFI’99) – Anti Human Trafficking Haggadah (Virtual)
Giving everyone the tools to write Jewish text…..
- Zohar Atkins (BYFI ’05) – Write Your Own Talmud (NYC)
Digitalizing the Jewish Canon…
- Brett Lockspeiser (BYFI ’99) – Sefaria (Virtual)
Documenting ancient cemeteries….
- Idit Ben Or (Amitim ’01) – Hands on History – Project archLive (Berlin & Jerusalem)
Revitalizing Jewish education….
- Rebecca Milder (BYFI ’91) – Jewish Enrichment Center Video Project (Chicago, IL)
Training a new generation of matchmakers….
- Raysh Weiss (BYFI ’01) – YentaNet (Virtual)
Increasing accessibility, creativity, and innovation in independent Minyanim….
- Raphael Magarik (BYFI ’05) – Berkeley Minyan (Berkeley, CA)
- Aliza Gans (BYFI ’09) – Kehillat Sha’ar (Waltham, MA)
- Eliana Golding (BYFI ’07) – Tikkun Leil Shabbat (Washington, DC)
- David Andorsky (BYFI ’92) – Minyan Na’aleh Shavuaton (the mountains, CO)