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Picking Sides: Bronfmn alumni Cnvss Voers, Dissec Obm’s ............ .... 4 ``Jewish Problem’’ Problem’’ in 2008 Presidenil Rce—by Rce—by Joshua Goodman (BYFI ’93) ........ the Blessings nd Burdens of Rising Jewish Children: Reflecions from BYFI alumni nd Sff—compiled Sff—compiled and edited by Matti Friedman (BYFI ’94) ...... . ....... .. 8
The Cmmunal Uteus by Matti Friedman (BYFI ‘94) rasn a Jewsh Chld by Leah Oppenzato (BYFI ’91) Dwn wth the Upshun by Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow (BYFI ’91) gwn Wth M Chlden: A Mthe’s relectns by Ava Charne (BYFI staff)
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turning he Ouside In: Bronfmn alumni Comedins Discuss americn ................................ ..................... ...................... ..................... .......... 14 Jewish Humor—by Humor—by Judy Batalion (BYFI ‘94) ...................... amplifying Impc—the Impc—the BYFI alumni Venure Venure Fund ........................... ............. ........................... ........................ ........... 18
Hme fnt Heats—Randi Cairns (BYFI ’88) Keshet—Idit Klein (BYFI ’89) fath Vte Clumus— Ari Lipman (BYFI ’95) Steet Shts—Elizabeth Ochs (BYFI ’01) one t Watch: Jd Meewtz (byfi ’05)
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Mi Friedmn (Byfi ’94) Becky Voorwinde (Byfi ’97)
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ne wth sme unque eatues. back n Ept, when the isaeltes wee st anzn themselves nt a natn, Mses asked Phaah t let hs peple nt the deset a ew das t wshp gd. Phaah ntall eused, ut — ate a ew plaues — came aund and asked, “Wh ae thse wh shall ?” Mses espnded: “We wll wth u un and wth u ld, wth u sns and wth u dauhtes…” Nt used t such nclusvt, Phaah desn’t et t: “Nt s; the men ma and wshp gd, that s what u equest.” Snce then, n a wld that dd nt usuall nclude evene n the cmmunt as a eal meme that cmmunt, the Jewsh peple have nssted n welcmn evene nt the te:
Rbbi Shimon Felix, Executive Director
“BYFI remins commied o his wonderfully dynmic nd diverse communiy.”
yu ae standn tda, all u, ee the Ld u gd: u leades, u tes, u eldes, u ces, all the men isael. yu chlden, u wmen, and the stane wh s wthn u camp, m the hewe u wd t the dawe u wate. (Deutenm 9; 9). Assemle the natn; the men and the wmen and the chlden, and the stane wthn u ates (Deutenm 31; 12).
Aan and aan, wheneve the Tah wants t assemle and addess the ente natn, t ncludes evene: men, wmen, and chlden, ch and p, un and the ld, the Jew and the “stane wthn u ates.” The Jewsh peple have nt alwas lved up t ths standad nclusvt. nclusvt. oten, we have ehaved me lke Phaah, excludn the wmen. We smetmes et the ld and ne the p, p, velk the un, and stacze the stane. We d nt alwas ehave n the wa the Tah demands us, aln t nclude all elements the Jewsh peple n u plans, u cncens, u hpes, and u deams. Snce ts nceptn n 1987, The bnman yuth fellwshps n isael has ted t mdel a cmmunt that lves up t the wds Mses and t the nclusvt demanded the Tah. Ths has een tue eve ea n u chce a dvese up fellws, u plualstc acult, acult, and even me s n u expandn netwk alumn. ou cmmunt ecmes me multaceted eve ea. i nce u wee all 17 ea-ld hh schl students, u ae nw 18, 28, and 38 ea ld scentsts, atsts, academcs, dcts and lawes, as all denmnatns, wtes, muscans, cmedans, dances, teaches, usnesspeple and s much me. yu ae snle and maed, uan and ual, lvn amn Jews as the nl Jewsh pesn mles aund. yu’e n San fancsc New yk, Haa, Lndn, and buens Aes, and vtn oama McCan (oK, mae i’ve ne t a wth ths dvest thn, ut u et m dt). byfi emans cmmtted t ths wndeull dnamc and dvese cmmunt. cmmunt. We have ecentl hed byfi alumna beck Vwnde (‘97) as Dect Alumn Enaement, t help keep the cmmunt cnnected, cdnated, and, mst mptantl, actve as a ce the d Amecan and wld Jew and the wld end. it s n ths spt that we n u ths maazne, whch pvdes an pptunt u t ead aut what u ellw fellws ae dn, hea what the have t sa, and, thuh the wtten wd, cme tethe as a cmmunt. We hpe u enj.
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yuth fellwshps as we wk tethe – this is n exciing ime for he bnman yuth the byfi Alumn Advs b ad and pessnal sta, u unde, the Samuel bnman fundatn, and u alumn, 573 stn and cuntn – t dent ntatves and pams that can maxmze the mpact we make, ndvduall and cllectvel, cllectvel, n the Jewsh cmmunt and the wde wld. byfi means patcpatn n a leln fellwshp. We ae a plualstc up that can, n Eda bnman’s bnman’s wds, “mdel a deent qualt dscuse the Jewsh cmmunt.” The byfi summe pam eed a Jewsh lens thuh whch t vew u wlds. it mmesed us n stmulatn text stud, stud, cnnected us wth the peple and stes isael, and encuaed us t take seusl u espnslt t scet and the Jewsh peple. Man us have und u bnman expeence meannul t u adult lves, nt nl ecause the wa t shaped us as thnkn peple and Jews when we wee mpessnale teenaes, ut ecause the pesnal and pessnal pptuntes aded us patcpatn n the byfi alumn cmmunt. Ths maazne pvdes a pespectve nt byfi’s eatest stenth: stenth: the dvese and talented peple t can n tethe. We hpe the stes cntaned n these paes wll nspe en enan pespectves and nshts m alumn and acult. acult. The byfi alumn cmmunt s an utstandn place n whch t nd Jewsh meann, cnnectn and value n u lves. We nvte each u t jn us n an wa u u wsh t mve ths vsn wad – va cmments n u weste, lstsev emal. We ae ateul t the bnman aml the cmmtment t the byfi summe pam and the nvestment n the nn wk supptn u alumn as the wk t make a deence. best,
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Becky Voorwinde, ‘97, BYFI Director of Alumni Engagement
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Bronfman Alumni Canvass Voters oters,, Dissec Dissectt Obama’ Obama’ss Jewish Problem Presidential in Race ★
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anyone who hinks baack Hussen oama desn’t have a Jewsh plem hasn’t checked the e-mal n ve a ea. Whethe t’s alse alleatns he attended an indnesan madassa, utae ve acal hated spewed a me sptual advs eeences t the pase heaped n hm Mddle Easten test ups, oama has tansxed Jewsh vtes lke ew Pesdental canddates have ee. f Jewsh vtes, small n nume ut tadtnall amn the Demcat pat’s staunchest leal ase, the cntves and hpe he has nsped has expsed hdden ault lnes that cut acss eneatnal, pltcal and elus lnes. one bnman fellw wh has watched ths tend m a ntw seat s Adam Manus. The 1996 fellw s a patne n Sh Jhnsn Manus, a Phladelpha-ased advetsn m that ceates advetsements Demcatc canddates.
“because m nvlvement n pltcs, i et a cnstant lw e-mals m ends and aml askn me thns l ke whethe t’s tue that oama went t a madassa,” Manus sad. “Qute ankl, i nd t dsappntn that Jews wuld eleve, much less help spead, ums that ae cleal alse.” As Electn Da daws clse, deunkn the mths aut oama s ettn ease, despte the pesstence n the lsphee and aund the pnchle tale at Jewsh etement hmes acss the cunt. An n-lne staw pll bnman alumn ann n ae m 16 t 39 med ade Jewsh vtn tends vewhelmnl n av Demcat canddates. o the 116 espndents, 75 pecent desced themselves as Demcats, and 87 pecent sad the planned t vte oama. i the alumn pll s an ndcatn, oama’s oama’s elatve nexpeence n en aas alleatns he wuld endane isael appea t have lst tactn. in act, 57 pecent bnman alums thnk BYFI.org
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the Demcat canddate’s Mddle East plces wuld e d isael, cmpaed t 35 pecent n Jhn McCan’s case. Amn the ade Jewsh cmmunt suppt oama s me tenuus. A Septeme pll Jewsh vtes, the Amecan Jewsh Cmmttee, und Jews supptve oama ve Jhn McCan 57 t 30 pecent wth 13 pecent undecded. f sme, especall Jewsh repulcans wh have cnducted plls the wn, the lwe numes oama-cmpaed t 80 pecent suppt Al ge and bll Clntn, as well as 76 pecent vtes Jhn Ke n 2004--pnt t a cedlt ap amn Jewsh vtes. Patsan ups lke the repulcan Jewsh Caltn have ted t captalze n lnen duts, eal nvented, canvassn etement hmes n the swn state flda, whee Jews make up 5 pecent vtes. Anat Matal, a 2000 fellw, has und hesel eluctantl supptn oama. Dun the pmaes, she hun pstes and adeed ends nt attendn a speech Hlla Clntn at bstn Unvest, Unvest, whee Anat s attendn law schl. When Hlla wed ut, Matal’s stn vews n suppt a wman’s ht t chse and endn dscmnatn led he t oama.
isaac Dvee, a 1997 bnman fellw wh edts tw mnthl papes n New yk pltcs, pased oama’s attempt t tackle Jewsh anxet head-n. The canddate made headlnes when he clumsl declaed t memes the p-isael l AiPAC that he suppted an undvded Jeusalem, a me hawksh stance than s
Mddle Easten plc the mst mptant act n the vtn chce. The tdal sht s eneatnal, eleves Dvee, wh has an MA n Amecan ntellectual hst m the Unvest Chca and ntened n Captl Hll as a hh s chl student. “M mthe, she lved t when Jhn Ke’s athe was dscveed t e Jewsh n 2004. o that Hlla had Jewsh elatves,” sad Dvee. “i’m 28, and thuh i’m cetanl nvlved n the Jewsh cmmunt, thse sts thns dn’t este wth me. i’m cncened aut ssues that aect me as an uan, mddleclass esdent.” Mae Klen, a uth-ea ancal student at Heew Cllee n Massachusetts, als ejects usn a canddate’s vews n isael as a ltmus test. but that desn’t mean he Jewsh dentt sn’t a ce pat he pltcal actvsm.
in 2005, she stated the nnpatsan rhteus indnatn pject, seekn t mlze pessve Jews aund ssues such as the envnment and htn pvet. A k and a natnal cneence late, the (Clockwise from left): Eric Trager with former Massachusetts Governor pject – suppted, n pat, Mitt Romney; Anat Maytal with General Wesley Wesley Clark; Edward-Isaac Dovere, Matal, wh wked as a leslatve a ant m the byfi Alumn editor of City Hall and The Capitol nten New yk Demcatc Ventue fund – has mphed nt Senat Chales Schume ate aduatn aved the bush admnstatn and man a small am 200 Jewsh actvsts esten m Havad, called oama “unknwn” and isaels. He als jknl eeed t e-mals and educatn vtes n lw-ncme, mnt McCan “unacceptale.” She explaned, cculatn aut hm, san, “let me knw nehhds. “i knw that desn’t pta oama n a u see ths u named baack oama, avale lht, ut i’m nt ve happ wth ecause he sunds pett sca.” “Jewsh vtes, n lae pat, eman cmmtted th chces.” t the same scal ssues the’ve alwas een Dvee sad that was “exactl what evene and wll all ehnd oama,” sas Klen, a Matal’s Matal’s pltcal cnvesn, alet ced cncened aut isael ssues wanted t hea.” 1996 bnman fellw. “Mst thse wh ccumstances, has een anthn ut tepd. dn’t ae snle-ssue vtes n the ht wh Ths summe she was n a hst cmmttee a U.S. suppt isael appeas unlkel t wuldn’t take a lk at oama anwa.” Jewsh yun Pessnals oama undase chane antme sn. but the ntense cncen event n New yk, successull slctn seveal isael held decades Jewsh vtes Even the eal anxet caused oama’s un ends t make a “dule-cha” dnatn ma e adn. onl 19 pecent bnman canddac has susded, the questn pessts: $36 t the canddate’s campan. alums sad the cnsdeed a canddate’s Whch canddate wuld e ette isael?
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oama’s oama’s statements n isael s a have een n lne wth the p-isael l, Klen sad. “Nevetheless, mst pessve Jewsh Jewsh vtes thnk the hawksh stance the last eht eas hasn’t dne s well at ceatn peace n the Mddle East. because oama s me accuntale t pessve Jewsh vtes wh wll have helped put hm n ce, thee s a hpe he wll e me pen t ecmmendatns cmn m pessve p-isael ups lke bt Tzedek v’Shalm and J Steet PAC.” f Ec Tae (byfi ‘00), wh tk tme m hs PhD n Mdeasten pltcs at the Unvest Pennslvana t canvass McCan n repulcan-hstle West Phladelpha, oama’s stance n isael s less than eassun.
20-ea memeshp n a chuch that ave an awad t Lus faakhan, a man wh pases Htle,’’ sad Kanne, wh was the taet scentes whle patcpatn ecentl n a p-McCan mach n New yk’s ve Jewsh, ve leal Uppe West Sde. The chuch late claed that t was an alated maazne, and nt the chuch tsel, that anted the awad.
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t t mpse the wll n the sputten netatns etween isaels and Palestnans. “What can an pesdent d wth a Palestnan autht ehlden t Hamas and an unppula isael venment hldn nt pwe?” sad Tae. i McCan s elected, at least ne bnman fellw ma have an mptant sa n hw that plc s dated. Davd Adesnk (byfi ’94), spent u mnths n iaq as a cvlan analst wth caltn ces ee jnn the McCan campan as a en plc and natnal secut advse. He’s unale t dscuss hs wk the campan, hweve.
Wheve wns, the emtns sted ths electn wn’t easl ade. Wtn Cmmenta’s Jews ln a stpped en a “Cntentns” l n Janua, hmenus up whse vte 13 MCCAiN 11.0% Tae sad oama’s “whspen was detemned n the ma (pul sweet Znst nthns” t pt). Stll, naned n the Amecan Jewsh vtes undesces hs naïve Jewsh psche s the mae ra 102 86.4% obAMA acceptance the pencus thess Aaham Jshua Heschel machthat the U.S.-isael elatnshp s n wth Matn Luthe Kn J. and a pduct pwe pltcs athe the sacces made man un 3 iNDEPENDENT 2.5% than statec nteests. Jews dun the cvl hts attles CANDiDATE the 1960s. Jews th the let and Then thee’s thee’s the questn the ht eleve u le s t ht nswered quesion .........................118 oama’s oama’s advss, amn them dscmnatn, nt uel t. oama’s skipped quesion..........................0 quesion..........................0 Samantha Pwe. bee esnn hstc campan, dependn n as a sen en plc advs u vewpnt —un ld, m the oama campan n Mach hawk dve, elus secula— Suce: Pltcal suve byfi alumn, Septeme 2008 -- calln Clntn a “mnste” s ethe a ulllment lnstandn -- Pwe advcated endn mlta Jewsh values a theat t them. ad t isael n av ecnmc develpment Tae s sanune aut hs wn canddate’s Neve have u deences seemed stake. the Palestnans. Sund Mddle Easten chances matchn rnald reaan’s eat The wunds ma take tme t heal. n plc wuld eque “alenatn a dmestc n 1980, when he secued 39 pecent cnsttuenc,” cnsttuenc,” she was quted as san n a the Jewsh vte, the hhest tall snce 2002 ntevew. Dwht Esenhwe n 1956. gee W. bush captued 22 pecent the Jewsh Joshua Goodman, a 1993 fellow, will be mailing his “These ae the st thns i’d hea n a vte n 2004. msque n Ca, nt what i’d expect m a absentee ballot to his swinging, home state of U.S. pltcal advs,” sad Tae, wh studed McCan, Tae sad, s a “un--the mll” pOhio from Rio de Janeiro, n Ept n 2006 n a fulht schlashp. isael canddate, ued hs clse asscatn wth me Demcatc vce pesdental where he writes about Latin American politics and economics for De Kanne (byfi ‘88), a sel-desced canddate Sen. Jseph Leeman. Althuh p-chce repulcan, sad oama’s gv. Saah Paln dsplas an isael la n he Bloomberg News. News. Prior to moving to to Brazil in May, he worked for The Associated Press alatn wth reveend Jeemah Wht s Alaska ce, Tae sad he cmmtment t als wsme. “it desn’t make me a acst isael was lael unknwn. He and Dvee in Colombia and covered Argentina’s 2001 economic collapse for Business Week. ecause i’m uncmtale ve oama’s eleve th McCan and oama ae unlkel t
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The Blessings and Burdens of Raising Jewish Children: Reflections from BYFI Alumni and Staff Compiled and edited by Matti Friedman (BYFI ’94)
Wih he Bronfmn progrm geing on in yers nd more nd more lumni duifully fulfilling he commndmen o be fruiful nd muliply muliply,, prenhood hs become noher experience ying Bronfmn Fellows ogeher. ogeher. Even if hey’re chnging dipers nd crpooling in very differen plces nd circumsnces, mny lums likely find hemselves deling wih some of he sme quesions. One exmple: in what ways is raising ra ising Jewish children as part of a Jewish community a blessing? In what ways is it a burden? the essys below emerged when we posed h quesion o four very differen members of he Bronfmn fmily: o fher who finds himself rising pir of idenicl Isrelis, rbbi looking for new mening in old rdiions, womn who mrried non-Jewish mn nd brough up Jewish children, nd womn wih Jewish fmily beyond he boundries of how Judism rdiionlly defined fmily.
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m a al wman we met utsde a hsptal n the nthen twn Aula when u kds wee a ew weeks ld. She lked appvnl at the tw aes n the lttle ed slns and sad: “Twns – that’s Matti Friedman and his family live in Jerusalem ve d.” Then, (Bottom right): Leah Oppenzato and her family live in Brooklyn, NY estun vauel ut mnusl wth he hand, she dpped he vce and explaned wh: “The’e n t utnume us,” she sad, meann u Aa nehs, the nes wh made up hal the hsptal’s hsptal’s By Matti Friedman (BYFI ’94) patents and hal the unalnl cmpetent and patent dcts and nuses wh had “Excuse me, ne placenta tw?” just teated he. asked the nnn stane m he ca. ca. She had just stpped esde me n the i am used t elnn t ths aucus and Jeusalem steet whee i was pushn Avv and plematc place, and when i mved hee Mchael, m 15-mnth-ld twns, n a stlle. m Canada 13 eas a t was m chce. “Tw,” i tld he, havn ecme used t but en a paent means makn a chce such questns, “ut the’e dentcal.” Ate a smene else, whch, t tuns ut, desn’t ew nques aut amntc sacs the wman make me eel entel cmtale. seemed satsed, tld me he dauhte was expectn twns, and dve wth a endl Ths uncetant must exst mst Jewsh wave when the lht chaned. paents, and eve paent asn chlden
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Ths was eal ths summe, and t was – except, pehaps, the “excuse me” – a classc isael mment. M we, Naama, and i ae eulal asked nnchalantl stanes whethe u twns ae the esult n-vt etlzatn, whethe the wee n va C-sectn, and when we’e plannn t have anthe chld. We ae als eulal tld peple wh stp us n the steet hw eautul u chlden ae, hw luck we ae, and hw we shuldn’t w ecause t wll et ease sn. Peple hee ae enunel nteested n chlden, and n u chlden, and expect u t e nteested n thes. it’s it’s all taken n stde n a wa that manaes t e smultaneusl annn and endean. The kutz mvement ma have aded, ut n sme was chlden hee eman cmmunal ppet. Sme ths s the nsness and empath nevtale n an up that sees tsel as shan a hst and a ate. Sme t s me vsceal and specc t lvn n isael. The latte tpe was expessed n ts awest
as pat a cmmunt, an expeence that alwas means walkn a lne etween cmt and sucatn. The pessue cke le n isael s smpl an exteme case that makes the ps and cns stake. stake. Hee, especall s, elnn has dake mplcatns. it s assumed the wll w up t e sldes; the cllectve s t suvve, u sns wll have t seve. Ths s jked aut: “staht t the Nav Cmmands!” smene wll sa as a chld cawls ecusl vaults nt the dnn m tale. Naama lkes t sa that the tme the’e 18 thns wll wk ut hee and the wll seve as peacekeepes n Cpus. but the wn’t, and t’s nt unn. The detal i ememe mst vvdl m the cuculum m summe as a bnman fellw s a pem. it was the isael wte Ham gu, and t desced Aaham’s neasacce isaac, the ultmate mment when a Jew ealzed hs sn was nt hs alne. Aaham had a cvenant wth gd, whch wasn’t ad -- t’s nce nt t e n u wn. but t tuned ut eal n, atp a hll n the Pmsed Land, that lnkn u le and that
u aml t smethn e can als e uneaale. gd staed Aaham’s hand and isaac suvved, as we knw. but snce then, the pet wte, we have een n wth a kne n u heat.
Matti Friedman grew up in Toronto, was a Bronfman fellow in 1994 and moved to Israel the next year. Since then, he has been a dairy farmer, soldier, university student and reporter. Today he works as a correspondent in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press. He is married to Naama and has twin boys, Aviv and Michael.
Rising Jewish Child By Leah Oppenzato (BYFI ’91) M Cathlc we st suested asn u chlden Jewsh. We wee at a weddn tw ends n whch the we had cnveted t Judasm. f the pevus ea s, we’d een daln n Untaansm, thnkn that pehaps ts ecumencal appach wuld lend u tadtns n a cmtale wa. wa. on the cnta, cnta, the Ptestant eel Untaansm let us – a Cathlc and a Jew – th eeln alieated.
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Judasm, that i am Jewsh nt nl ecause m upnn, eles, and pactces, ut m cul ha, m Jewsh mthe, m Easten Eupean lneae. i lk Jewsh; Jeem lks Celtc. i am lad ths challene, t e pushed past m wn steetpes.
Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow with son Yadid, pre-Upshurin
S Clleen lked at me acss the lwe aanement and sad, “Let’s ase the chlden Jewsh.” We ween’t et maed (elusl leall; we have et t e maed leall, as we lve n New yk State) and we cetanl ddn’t have an chlden. but that cnvesatn was ecnzal the stat u path. We jned a small cneatn that meets n a chuch nea. nea. The shul s nndenmnatnal and accepts – welcmes – nn-Jewsh patnes, even allwn them t e ad memes. ou sn has een attendn Klt Chaenu snce he was a unc lttle pllw n ute, whee he danced t nunm. He stll lves the snn, and cawls n the asles. We had hs namn thee and have elt the encmpassn welcme Jeem’s Jewsh cmmunt. cmmu nt. ou rem a (the cneatn tsel s nndenmnatnal) sad that, ncall, accdn t the dctne patlneal descent, she cnsdes Jeem a Jewsh chld. chld. i unctn as the Jewsh athe, and we plan t ase hm Jewsh. Hweve, we wanted t ensue that he wuld e accepted as a ull Jew n the wde Jewsh wld, s we chse t cnvet hm. ou st hudle was ndn a mhel wh wuld nt wte “en Avaham v’Saa” n hs s cetcate – hweve, as t tuned ut, u rem mhel aeed wth u a that Jeem ddn’t even need t e cnveted, and hs cetcate eads “en Clleen v’Leah.” Hs cnvesn wn’t e accepted evewhee, ven that the bet Dn was a t rem wmen as, ut we eel we have dne what we can t ve hm a sld ase n Judasm. Jeem’s Judasm has ced me t apple wth m wn undestandn undestandn what makes a Jew. Jew. i see m chld as ull Jewsh. Jewsh. And et, i cme m a aml “ull-lded” Jews. i stll have a nan sense that thee s a acal aspect t
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And et Jeem ma nd hmsel n places whee he s nt accepted as a Jew. i stuled n m wn adlescence wth deent ms Judasm that wee less than acceptn m wn rem/recnstuctnst ackund, m lesan dentt, ut n ne can eve dspute m Jewsh hetae. it’s it’s m j t pass n m stn sense Jewsh dentt, just as m mthe passed hes n t me; ut unlke m mthe, i can’t ve hm the secut the ldlne. ben a nn-lcal mthe cmes wth a hst challenes (deent, n m stuatn, m adptn ecause Jeem des have a lcal paent). i need t pass m JudaJudasm t hm m m heat, nt m ld m enes m cul ha. ha. That s m challene. And i accept t ull.
Leah Oppenzato ‘91 lives in Brooklyn, New York with wife Colleen and 9 month old son Jeremy. Jeremy. She teaches 7th grade at progressive charter school in Hoboken, New Jersey. She is a member of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives, a non-denominational Jewish congregation in Brooklyn.
Down wih he Upshurin by Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow (BYFI ’91) as told to Matti Friedman When u sn yadd appached the ae thee, i ean t thnk aut the Jewsh tadtn upshun, when a ’s ’s ha s cut the st tme n hs thd thda. i ew up n a aml whee ths was nt pactced. but n m wn hme, whee an othdx a (me) and a rem cant (m we, Adna H. fdman) ae asn chlden n a lvn Jewsh mélane, t stated t lk lke a ptentall amazn and meannul tual.
reseach nt the halakhc ts the tadtn t me even me nteested. i dscveed the lnks etween upshun and the acultual laws la, whch ds havestn m a ut tee wthn ts st thee eas, and pe’a, whch eques a ame t leave a cne hs eld asde the p. Paallel t ths, a ’s ha s let uncut the same ped tme (thee eas), and when t s cut we ae equed t leave pe’t, cnes (sdelcks). At thee eas ae, lke a ut tee, a Jewsh s cnsdeed t have eached a landmak. Wth dapes ut the wa, and wth hs cnscusness develpn, he s cnsdeed ead leann, wean tztzt, and hs st hacut. but i elt that nteest alne n the custm was nt a d enuh easn us t pem t. Wuld we even cnsde ths we had a dauhte? but then we ean t thnk aut hw we culd make the upshun nt a ulllwn mtzvah that we wuld want t pem u chlden eadless ende. f us, mtzvt ae nt just dn what s ht nt dn what s wn accdn t sme the wldl law. ou deal s t mdel cmmtments that ae pesnall meannul, unvesall elevant, and dstnctvel Jewsh. That s hw we t the dea t have yadd wat past hs thd thda t et hs ha cut. yadd was n t wat untl hs ha was ln enuh t dnate. instead a stane tadtn pemed te, t wuld ecme a elus expeence vn. i am nt sue he undestd at st. but at the tme he was unden the sht m mee epeate t undestandn en and yadd ean t develp a lanuae altusm. At the pat we nall had hm when he was thee and a hal, hs andmthe ave hm a tzedaka x, whch he ean t ll. i asked hm wh, wh, and he sad that when he had ha he ave t t smene wh needed t, lkewse when he had mne he wuld ve t s mene n need. i i have t put m ne n what asn chlden as Jews means us, t s ths. The cmmunt, cmmunt, ts hst and laws ae nt just a ackdp t the edlam paentn. in ths case, the pvded a wa ettn yadd t thnk, ee he was even awae he was dn s, aut what t means t l ve a halakhc mal
exstence. We lk wad t epeatn ths tual wth hs the yshama and sme da we ae lessed, als wth a dauhte. dauhte. ou upshun has pvded us wth a platm a dscussn wth a thee-ea-ld thee-ea-ld aut what t means t e a mensch.
Rabbi Avi Orlow ‘91 is a Jewish Educator for the Foundation for Jewish Camp. For the past four years, Avi was the Campus Rabbi and Assistant Director of St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. University. Prior to this experience he held numerous positions as Rabbi, educator, and youth leader. Avi spent 17 years as a camper and then educator at Ramah Camps in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and YUSSR camps in the Former Soviet Union. Avi has a BA BA in religious studies from from Columbia. He was ordained in the charter class at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the Open Orthodox rabbinical School. Avi lives in White Plains with his wife, Cantor Adina Frydman, and their sons, Yadid and Yishama.
Growing Wih Growing Wih My Children: a Moher’s Reflecions By Ava Charne (BYFI staff)
Tna went t nuse nuse schl at u temple. temple. one Shaat, she came hme and sad that she had lwes u Shaat Shaat tale. i asked he whee whee u Shaat tale was, and she tld me she thuht t was dwnstas dwnstas n the asement. it amazed me that at he un ae, she was ka wth whateve tadtns we dd dd nt have. When rn was 4, i ean t teach kndeaten at u Sunda Schl. Schl. Tna and rn wuld cme wth me wthut al eve Sunda mnn. The cntnued t t accmpan and “assst” me untl rn aduated m hh schl. i neve maned that the wuld t a Heew da schl, et Tna ean kndeaten and rn llwed, and eht eas late the aduated. We ecame me and me nvlved n Judasm, and as the eas went , Vnce asked me i made up Jewsh hldas -- each ea thee seemed t e me that we wee sevn. Tna and rn t nvlved n isael dancn, danced wth the isael dance tupe thuh hh schl, and even tauht isael dancn when the t lde. The came wth me t isael man the summes when i was thee wth the bnman fellws. The wnte eteats eteats and eunns eunns wee s meannul t them. Tda, th m dauhtes ae ve actve Jews. bth tk pat n Avdah, the Jewsh Sevce Cps, ate cllee. Tna s a specal educatn teache n Maland, and rn just t a j at the Jewsh Cmmunt Cente n Newtn, Mass. as a Scal Justce yuth Cdnat .
i thnk m expeence elects th smethn the pce lvn n a cmmunt, cmmunt, and ts enets. The a’s hash wds that rsh Hashana shwed t what extent Jews eleved the must e exclusve t suvve. The cmmunt excluded peple lke Vnce, wh aen’t pat t, and ejected the le chce i made when i maed hm. And et at the same tme, u cmmunt eed m chlden s much, and made them the Jewsh peple the ae nw. i am ve pud Tna and rn, and ve ateul the suppt the Jewsh cmmunt n whch the ew up -- the snaue, the da schl, and byfi. n
Ava Charne is the Administrative Director for The Bronfman Youth Fellowships and has been part of BYFI since the fall of 1987. Ava is very proud to say that she personally knows all 573 Bronfmanim. Bronfmanim. Ava is also the Executive Director of the Capital District Women’s Women’s Bar Association. Prior to 1987, Ava was the Training, Training, Safety and Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Services. She holds her BA in political political science and her Masters Degree in Public Administration from the State University of New York York at Albany. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, but has lived in Albany, New York since 1973. In recent years she has developed a strong passion for playing tennis.
bee m dauhtes wee n, i ememe en n snaue wth m athe n rsh Hashanah. The a was talkn aut aut hw ntemaae wll e the demse the Jewsh eln. i culd swea he was lkn lkn staht at me, and i elt lke i was wean a scalet lette. Tna and rn ae adults nw. The athe, Vnce, s italan. M chlden ae a pduct ntemaae. As the a spke, i ememe thnkn that and when i had chlden, i wuld ut m wa t make sue the wee Jewsh, and that i wuld nt snle handedl dest the Jewsh peple. Ava Charne with daughters Robyn and Tina and their father Vince
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A Pluralistic Jewish Stance By Professor Joseph Reimer
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nce, when teachn at Stand, i eended a lcal rem a. When he leaned that i tauht the bnman yuth yuth fellwshps n isael (byfi), he tld me he was an at the pam. i asked wh, and he sad t was ecause n byfi a un man m hs cneatn had een tauht t put n telln. What was wn wth that? Hs espnse: t was an et othdx as t dscedt the rem mvement. That clam was dstun. i was pesent when ths un man had asked t lean t put n telln. He dd eel adl that he had neve een tauht aut telln. but d telln eln t the othdx mvement? is wshn t lean me necessal a neatve cmment n ne’s ne’s past leann? is emacn an ae-ld Jewsh tadtn a ejectn rem an the elus mvement? i thuht ths cnvesatn last week as i was lstenn t Alza Klne desce hw she, the auth Anta Dament, and the pnees ult Mam Ham, the plualstc mkveh (tual ath) n the bstn aea. Alza s a pduct the rem mvement and et has devted he caee t uldn a mkveh that s used nt nl cnvesn ceemnes and tadtnal tuals
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elatn t nddah, the menstual ccle, ut als man healn tuals as well. Alza talked he wn ascnatn and dedcatn t use the mkveh and he delht at seen hundeds Jewsh wmen dscve the pwe these tadtns themselves and the dauhtes. is Alza usn the mkveh t dscedt leal Judasm? Hadl; he clentele and supptes ae vewhelmnl leal Jews. Last ea i sat n the dctal cmmttee ot Kent, wh has cmpleted a stunnn stud chevuta leann – a tadtnal methd studn n pas – amn nn-othdx unvest students. ot ew up othdx and has dedcated he caee t pmtn seus Jewsh text stud amn all Jews. He the s that the eshva-ased ntechane a pa students wkn ve a tadtnal Jewsh text has eat pwe, when used wsel, n an aa leann cntexts. Lke Alza, ot sees the ptental unleashn the sptual pwe hdden n ths tadtnal pactce the enet Jews wh have neve and wuld neve ventue nt a tadtnal eshva. A hunded eas a mden Jews wee us emn Judasm lettn man the tadtnal pactces the asscated wth ld-
wld eln. The suht an Amecan Judasm that culd pudl take ts place alnsde ts sste elns. N eads, yddsh accents and, gd’s sake, n ancent pactces lke mkveh chevuta. We’ve cleal utwn that need atnal ecnstuctn. in a pstmden wld mkveh and chevuta can pudl take the place alnsde ack-t-natue health pactces and leann methdles. We ae ee t eshape the eat mden ems. We ae als ee t thnk past cnventnal denmnatnal undaes. The denmnatns ae utwths thse mden ems and have plaed mptant les n vn anzatnal shape t 20th centu Amecan Judasm. but the capactes t pla utue shapn les wll depend upn the adaptve stenths n espndn t what we see eve da: seekn Jews n seach deepe meanns wh d nt cae a wht aut the laels. The seek Jewsh qualt and meann wheeve the can nd t. Jewsh plualsm, t m mnd, s nt a mvement ut a stance exempled Alza, ot and the utstandn Jewsh teaches such as ra Dann Lehmann. Dann ew up n the Cnsevatve mvement, was daned as
an othdx a and was the undn head the plualstc gann Academ n the bstn aea. A ew eas a Dann, a talented muscan, elt the Jewsh cmmunt needed a seus summe ats pam that was kshe and Shaat sevant. He ean biMA at Wllams Cllee and pneeed smethn new: nt a Jewsh camp wth a susda ats pam, ut a seus ats pam Jewsh teens. it s pehaps nt supsn that byfi and ts alumn wee nvlved m the ennn, and that the Samuel bnman fundatn suppts biMA thuh the fundatn Jewsh Campn. Tw eas a biMA mved t bandes Unvest and has taken ts place alnsde ts sste pam, geness, a summe pam hh schl students cmnn Jewsh studes, academcs, the ats and humantes. Watchn thse tw pams clsel and cmpan them t the eat denmnatnal Jewsh camps has een nstuctve. i knw Jewsh denmnatnal camps that have ats pams and leann methds whch we can e pud. but the ae nt as stn n tw cucal cmpnents that lush at biMA and geness. fst s the pptunt Jewsh uth t et t knw peple wh have wn
up n the mvements. Secnd s the eedm t exple –ntellectuall and atstcall – end the undaes an ne mvement. The st pnt seems vus, ut the secnd deseves me explanatn. i have seen patcpants wh have dscveed a new appach t Judasm. The enteed thnkn the eln was a ccumsced sstem emded the snaue, a and uth mvement. The let seen altenatves end thse lmts; the ean t exple the nks and cannes u tadtns and dscve theen hdden teasues nt knwn t the paents and andpaents. We can exple these teasues and lean m them wthut ejectn u ts. We can expand u Jewsh hzns eclamn pactces and deas that have allen awa unde the ush mdenzn Judasm. bend that, n a plualstc stance we ae ee t exple the wde ceans knwlede and the depths atstc pssltes and n thse ches t ea n u Jewsh lves. Jews have nthn t ea m develpn the atstc talents and expln the ntellectual custes. indeed, the Judasm we ae seekn s ne that s me deepl ted n ts ull past and me
devtedl pen t the nshts that awat us n ths adcall new and unknwn centu. The Judasm that emees wll lkel lk ve deent m what we have knwn. i suspect t ma lk me lke byfi, biMA and geness than the denmnatns the 20th centu. n
Joseph Reimer is associate professor and former director of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University. Dr, Reimer served as a faculty member on the Bronfman Youth Youth Fellowships s ummer program for 4 years. His book Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made it Work won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award. Dr. Reimer has served on the staff of the Commission on Jewish Education in North America and on the boards of the Covenant Foundation, the Rashi School and the New Jewish High School. He currently chairs the education policy committee for Birthright Israel, North America. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife Gail Twersky Reimer and their daughters Tamara Tamara and Ziva.
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: n I e d i i s t t u O e h t t g g n n i n n r u T Bronfman Alumni Comedians D i i sc uss A m er i i c ca n J ewi sh H u m or By Judy Blion (BYFI '94)
The husband said: Close the window, it's cold outside. The wife replied: And if I close the window, will it make it any warmer outside? - Old Jewish Joke I begn performing snd-up comedy in London ime when my Jewish ideniy ws no on my mind, nd cerinly no in my se, which is why I ws so surprised when i ws he firs hing indusry folk picked up. a erly udiions, hey would sy, s if helping me: ‘Go bck o New York.’ Um, OK, I hough, bu I’m Cndin. Or, Or, ‘Don’ worry, sick i ou – he Briish public is slowly geing used o Woody allen.’ Or even, ‘You ‘You should relly mrry non-Jew - your kids will be much beer looking’. I hd o fce he fc h some elemen of my yiddishkei (my pronunciions? gesiculions? iudes? fce?) mus hve been indverenly leking ono he sge. I smcked of Jew. Wh unil hen I hd ken o be minsrem, s my unremrkble bckground – I cully did grow up speking Yiddish Yiddish – ws suddenly my min feure. Jewish men difference, even in, or especilly in, he comedy world. I ws being plced s n ousider, viewed s ‘plying chrcer’, nd old o ge ou.
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Ths eactn, asde m makn me awae m Judasm (dn a ette j than mst Jewsh anzatns eve had), als t me thnkn aut the was that utsdeness mht e nteal t the ve Jewsh hum that i was en accused usn. All hum mht e seen as cmn m an altenate pespectve, ut Jewsh hum has tadtnall een knwn as the hum the utsde. Amn the man attempts t chaacteze Jewsh hum, hum, schlas cnsstentl ee t t as the hum memes an undeclass makn jkes n de t eel ette aut the pstn, t eel sldat, sldat, t ve the nesh psches cndence, and, eventuall, t vethw the Tsa. in Ameca, a well-knwn and utsde-Jewshneutc hum emeed n the 1960s, emded cmedans lke Wd Allen and Jan rves. The senses hum wee ased n sel-depecatn and the dscmt ttn nt ne’s ne’s wn skn as well as nt scet; t’s a hum neuss, nsecut and assessn pstn. Allen and rves ae nall Knsu and Mlnsk. Mlnsk. but m hunch was that thns had chaned snce the 1960s. is cuent Amecan hum pst-Jewsh? pst-Jewsh? And s, hw has the Jewsh hum the utsde een accepted nt and pehaps alteed Ameca, the land the mmant utsde pa excellence? i tuned t sme bnman alumn wh ae als n the cmed ndust t nd ut and hw en a Jew had catalzed and aected the caees and the senses hum, and whethe Jewsh cmed – the hum and the usness – culd stll e cnsdeed that the utsde.
Hip-Hop, Bevis, nd Oysers Wth a cmpletel seus ace, ees acn staht ahead and makn n cntact wth the audence, stand-up Dan Mntz (byfi ‘97) sas nt the mc: “M andathe was actuall a Hlcaust suvv. And u can tell that t eall aected hm. because, t ths da, da, he stll wll nt walk nt a as chame.” Dan s knwn hs dead-pan delve nn-sequtu ne lnes, and hs asud twsts lc. Dan’s Dan’s s an ntellectual cmed, cmed, wth a lcal, clea and cncse wtn stle, and n whch the passn s undewaps, n tensn wth the calm the pemance. readless the cntent (ths s ne hs sle Jewsh jkes), i wndeed he elt hs wtn and
delve stle wee Jewsh n an wa. wa. “Well, mae,” he thnks. “i thee’s a and Jewsh hum that s ased n stuctual plan, and an emtnal emve, a dness, a Talmudc twstn. “yu “yu et Jewsh cmedans the same easn u et Jewsh lawes,” Dan sas. “We lke t pla aund wth laws, see thns m deent pespectves.” The pn atttude Jewsh stud, stud, whee eve pnt s e-questned and e-ntepeted, and n whch ne s alwas takn n ‘utsde’ pstns, als came up n cnvesatn wth cmed hp hp atst El bataln (byfi ’97), wh – amn hs man accmplshments – als happens t e m the. the. El ecnzed that elements a Jewsh chldhd had an mpact n hs cmed wtn. bl cal stes, feudan tales, sel-depecatn, maj tnal chanes n the delve lnes, and twsts lc that ccu n Talmudc easnn all nluence hs lcs. El and hs wtn/pemn patne Jeme Sal ten wk n a dalectc wa, takn n deent sdes auments whch ae late emded deent chaactes. Hllwd scptwte Etan Chen (byfi ‘91) sas hs expeence ‘deence’ came nt m the studs ut m the othdx Jewsh cmmunt whee the dea wtn aunch catns was a tuch suspect. Hs wn nsecut aut cmmttn acts that wee asu, asu, dden, and wtn te shwz s what led hm t maj n yddsh at Havad, whee he ean eelancn the MTV catn beavs and butt-Head. “The amus yddsh wtes als appled wth ethcal cntadctns nvlved n en elus and wtn the ppula maket,” he sas. sas. Etan und cndence n these stes, n eeln he was pat a tadtn that tussled wth tadtn. Etan was, hweve, nluenced the othdx cmmunt’s cmmunt’s dstust sm e elements Amecan cultue. indeed, pehaps the ntense examnatn the est scet the othdx cmmunt s at the heat Etan’s cmedc pespectve. Sme Etan’s Etan’s ealest cmed wk, he jkes, was s cln pades cmmenta n the mans hs Talmud ks at schl, addn anthe humus lae t the endless Judac dscussn. isael-ased cmedan ysael Campell, wh has dne shws the byfi summe pam, als cmments n eeln excluded m the Jeusalem othdx cmmunt ecause hs caee. caee. He ew up Cathlc n Pennslvana and cnveted t Judasm thee tmes, each wth a me stnent a.
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Nt havn een ased Jewsh, s hs sense hum Jewsh? ysael epled that he was uht up a aml mmants that used t dve aund and pnt ut all the cunt clus the ween’t allwed nt. “i als ddn’t eel lke the wld was m ste – , actuall, actuall, i elt lke t was, ut i culdn’t eat t,” he explans. in that sense, ysael sas, he ma have alwas had a Jewsh sense hum.
cultual nsttutn,” El sas. “Untunatel, “Untunatel, t s pal the mst n Jewsh elements whch ae eceved n ths wa, ut that nl means thee’s thee’s an pptunt eate Jewsh cmed ut thee, t e explted a Jewsh lmmake capale spnnn a classc scene ut a tashlch sequence.” Sme Amecan cmed chaactes ae stll Jewsh, ut t appeas the’ve ne m
In he Ou Culure ysael’s ysael’s expeence mht demnstate the palpalt Jewsh hum Amecans, and wh t was s eadl adpted – patl ecause evene was and s an utsde, a ecentsh mmant. indeed, i wndeed hw Jewsh hum mht have een ased nt the Amecan cultue utsdeness – hw easl was t taken up, and hw much has t aected and een aected the mansteam.
Dan Mintz performing a stand-up routine
El aees: “Jews ae me nteated, ut cnsequentl, cnsequentl, i thnk the have less Jewshented mateal. T a cetan extent, the Jewsh steetpes and jkes t hap n ae smewhat clchéd – hw man me jkes ae u wlln t st thuh aut Jewsh mthes, Jewsh ult?” but El thnks that thuh Jewsh cntent mht e less vet, Amecan cmed peseves sme ts Jewsh ts n deent uses – La Davd’s neshness, Seneld’s stle and the chaactes ceated the Stlle/ ren/Apatw caal. “Watchn Euene Lev n the ‘Amecan Pe’ lms suests t me that Ameca s pepaed t handle cetan Jewsh-sms lke mazel tv eetns as pat the Amecan
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Dan s lummxed the questn. Whle wn up n Anchae, he elt extc en a Jew. but snce hs bnman isael tp - hs st mmesn nt satuated Jewsh cultue - he has spent tme at Havad and lved n New yk and LA, and has een suunded Jews. Hs Jewshness, he sas, has “ecme a ackund element m dentt.” dentt.” El’s El’s man expeence Jewsh dentt utsdeness came m wkn n hs patcula ene – hp hp. He s, ate all, a Jew n a d-a. Thuh he neve ndcates hs elus ackund n pess eleases, man ctcs addess t. El, hweve, hweve, desn’t eel awkwad aut t at all. He takes the at m seusl; hs cmed s n hs (Jewshsh) lcs.
Dan sas thee sn’t a new eneatn ‘Jewsh’ cmedans n the standup ccut. “Wd Allen alead dd Wd Allen; u can’t epeat that,” he sas. “Jewsh hum s s ased nt the cultue that evene des t. “Jewshness s nmal n the USA, u dn’t have t e neutc aut t. reall, wh culd stll talk aut en Jewsh n stae? What wuld u sa?”
nsde the studs, staes and adms, n a wa that t hasn’t n Enland? Dd tda’s Amecan Jewsh cmedans thnk aut the Jewsh dentt n a dal ass, as i had stated t?
the neutc t the padc. Cuent Jewsh Hllwd chaactes lke Adam Sandle and Judd Apatw’s isael hastlst Zhan have taded the nesh pesnalt sass and punch. (Alet, i add, as a cacatue an isael, just as Saah Slveman, unlke Jan rves, plas a cacatue a Jewsh pncess cndent n he sexualt and pstn.) Etan, wh s cuentl wtn a Shelck Hlmes lm Apatw, t sta Sacha ban Chen, sas Apatw’s pductns have Jew-heav stas, and the’e ank: N ne s wed aut en Jewsh, and Jewshness s nt the punchlne.
T Etan, en a Jew – even an sevant, kppa-wean ne – s nt a ssue n LA, whee thee ae kshe cees at eve as statn, and TV statn. Nt nl des t seem t hm that Jews wk n all aspects the entetanment ndust – wtn, dectn, pducn, actn – ut Jewsh hum has s pevaded the Amecan cmed ndust that aund the wtes’ tale the nl wa Etan knws a clleaue s Jewsh s the last name. He neve eels sel-cnscus aut hs Jewsh pactce, he sas, except a tn t dun Pesach, when at lunch he pulls ut a sutcase lled wth matza and Det Cke.
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but sn’t wtn wth Jewsh cllaats, lke ben Stlle, a lttle deent than wtn wth nn-Jewsh nes, lke hs ment Mke Jude, wth whm he c-wte the lm idcac and epsdes beavs and butt-Head and Kn the Hll? N, Etan clams: He sees n deence n the wtn, the sense hum, the was wkn.
Then t seems that Jewsh hum, cmn m the utsde, has und ts wa t the nsde Amecan cultue. but has t als made t t the
ysael, hweve, sas t was hs elus sevance and hs sense en an utsde n Hllwd that led hm t isael n the st
“Jews are more integrated, but consequently, I think they have less Jewish-oriented material. To a certain extent, the Jewish stereotypes and jokes to harp on are somewhat clichéd – how many more jokes are you willing to sit through about Jewish mothers, or Jewish guilt?”
place. Unlke Etan, ysael aced plems en sevant n LA n the late 1990s, especall when he ddn’t want t lm a cmmecal n the ehth da Passve. Hs aent thuht he was caz: “it’s cute when u put n a kppa, ut nt cute when u tun dwn wk.” in 2000, ysael went t isael a sht electve eak. He ended up studn at the Pades insttute seveal eas, and the e-emeence hs stand-up caee happened accdent: Pades asked hm t talk aut hs pesnal expeences dun a pam n cnvesn, the audence cacked up, and next thn he knew he was pemn ths mnlue t cwds n hs lvn m. it sn ecame a tun pece n isael and ack n the USA, and he’s nw pepan the o badwa un hs shw ‘yu Can Neve be T Jewsh’ – an encuan ttle that seems t summaze the Amecan ndust.
Srs of Dvid in Jan rves’ 2008 West End shw, the nale ncluded an enmus cheese plate cveed wth isael las. The pletha lue maen davds made me asp (as dd the pletha lue stltn). Ww, i thuht, neve n m le wuld i use isael las n a shw. but, the easn ehnd ths ‘neve’ has chaned damatcall ve the past eas. in m pevus Nth Amecan le, i wuldn’t have placed the lue-and-whte n stae ecause i wuldn’t have had much t sa aut t, despte ( pehaps ecause ) havn ne t a Znst hh schl. on the the hand, n m cuent le n Enland, the
isael la s a laded sml, punentl pltcal, and i’m alead Enlsh enuh t eel sel-cnscus aut shwn t. i wuld nw nt wave an isael la unless i was tn t make a statement - and ne akn t appean n stae hldn a Staucks cup, wean a ed-whte-and-lue T-sht m WalMat, and eatn up the nm. (but, i dd ths, t wuld e as a pad these tpcal statement-makes...). Thuh i haven’t et empled the i-la, i have stated t addess m Judasm n cmed shws. Havn een maked and excluded ecause t, m Jewshness has ecme smethn i want t talk aut, and thee seem t e audences wh want t hea aut t as well. When thee’s smethn at stake n Jewsh dentt, when t s a tpc ta and tensn, t als ecmes ne jkes. rves’ shw, n whch she mentns en tld eal n that she was t Jewsh t pl a anwhee utsde New yk, makes t pett clea that he une sel pal wuldn’t have used isael las ethe. ethe. but he cmt at dn s nw (and hw i env t), seems t e the cmt Dan, Etan, El and ysael plan n Ameca; t attests t hw much the Amecan cmed ndust and mansteam cultue has chaned n the past u decades. Wth utsde Jewsh cmed nw cmtal nsde, i wnde whee t wll m hee: Wll t tun n n tsel? Wll pst-Zhan Jewsh chaactes e lnd supemdels dn tashlch n pctuesque ks? And wll ‘Jewsh’ hum nw emee nl m cultues utsde the land ee ells? n
Etan Cohen on the set of Tropic Thunder which he co-wrote with Ben Stiller
—Eli Batali ‘97
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Amplifying Impact– The BYFI Alumni Venture Fund The byfi Alumn Ventue fund enales alumn the bnman yuth fellwshps t suppt the pees’ cuttn-ede ntatves wth undn and techncal assstance. Snce launchn u undasn campan n 2005, dnatns m alumn and the amles have enaled us t awad ants t 33 nnvatve alumn-led pjects that ae helpn t shape the Jewsh cmmunt and the wde wld. The $74,850 dstuted n small ants s nl pat the st. Me exctn s the wa the byfi Alumn Ventue fund ns alumn tethe t shae the techncal sklls and expetse. in the cmn eas, we wll cntnue t ceate pptuntes antees t shae successul statees wth ne anthe and alumn wkn n all dscplnes t e udance that helps antees w the ntatves and anzatns. All memes the byfi alumn cmmunt ae elle t appl. gants suppt pjects
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that seek t pmte byfi’s ce values Jewsh leann, plualsm, enaement wth isael, scal espnslt a cmnatn the ave. Pjects that meet the undn ctea have ncluded cmmunt sevce pams, suppt nnvatve Jewsh cmmuntes, cneences, pulcatns and ants t nt-pt -pt anzatns whee alumn seve as mal and nmal leades. belw ae ples ve bnman fellws wh ae makn an mpact.
Rndi Cirns (BYFI ’87) Home Front Hearts rand Cans (byfi ‘87) s an expet multtaske: A
mthe u chlden aes 3 t 13 wh wks eelance js whle he husand, Captan ian Cans, s statned n Ahanstan tann the Ahan Natnal Plce. At the same tme she s studn ull-tme twads an MS n Human Sevces and wkn t un and expand he ntnt-pt anzatn, Hme fnt Heats. f rand, Hme fnt Heats s lteall a la lve. “M heat has elned t a slde almst teen eas. Supptn hs caee, caee, manan thns n hs asence and wkn wth the amles hs sldes, i’ve ecme pesnall acquanted wth the challenes aced mlta amles,” sas rand. Hme fnt Heats pvdes suppt and esuces t the amles depled sevce memes, especall thse m the New Jese Natnal guad reseves. it wks t ncease pulc awaeness the stules and sacces mlta amles and enaes ndvduals and usnesses n uldn a me mlta-endl cmmunt. cmmunt.
Hme fnt Heats has cnnected mlta amles n a suppt netwk and und usnesses t e them, p-n, sevces the need. it has als sent ve 300 xes schl supples t need cmmuntes n Ahanstan at rand’s husand’s equest. The mne m a byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant enaled rand t secue cal 501c3 status as a pulc chat. Wth ths n place, rand can cus n nceasn the eadth he anzatn and sevn the needs mlta amles. “The byfi alumn cmmunt es a sense elnn, a dvese set sklls and expeences, and a cnnectn the lkes whch i have nt expeenced n the cmmuntes t whch i’ve elned. Twent-ne eas ate a summe tp t isael, t s stll a cmmunt that i tun t and knw that i wll e suppted.” in Heew schl, rand leaned aut deas lke tkkun lam (epan the wld) and tzedakah (chat). but he undestandn the mptance vewn u espnsltes each the thuh a ade lens, ne that extends end the Jewsh cmmunt, deepened as a esult en pat an nteath elatnshp. “M husand and i ae deepl cmmtted t teachn these values t u chlden,” explans rand. “The est wa i can d that s thuh m wn actns n advcatn thes.” f me nmatn vst www.hmentheats.
Idi Klein (BYFI ’89) Keshet idt Klen (byfi ’89) s wkn twads a da when Jews wll nt ea the wll e ejected the cmmunt ased n the sexual ende dentt. Snce late Auust 2001 idt has wked as executve dect Keshet, a assts anzatn stvn a, lesan, sexual, and tansende nclusn n Jewsh le. Unde idt’s leadeshp, Keshet has lushed. based n bstn, Keshet st eached a natnal stae wth the elease a dcumenta the anzatn pduced, ttled Hnen: Cmn out n a Jewsh Hh Schl. The lm tells
the st a l at a Jewsh hh schl wh campans t estalsh a a-staht allance. The lm and accmpann cuculum have een used acss the U.S. and ntenatnall. Snce ts peme, the lm has een sceened n seveal hunded cmmuntes, ncludn a gLbT lm estval n guana. idt’s wk s hhl pesnal. When n cllee at yale, idt expeenced a sense slatn and vulnealt when decdn whethe t talk aut he sexual dentt wth leadeshp at the campus Hllel. Ths anxet was eneated, she sas, the “cmplete asence an sns gLbT le n the campus Jewsh cmmunt.” When she dd cme ut, idt was suppted ends and sta at Hllel patculal ra Shan Chen Anseld and ra Jm Pnet (byfi acult). but t cncens idt that teen eas late thee ae stll man un peple wh have the same expeences manalzatn. The dese t ceate welcmn envnments s what led Keshet t develp the “Hnen Educatn Pject.” Pat ths p ject entals tann and pee suppt t Jewsh educats and la leades thuhut the cunt t ceate sae schls and supptve cmmuntes. Keshet s als wkn t stenthen the capact Jewsh gLbT anzatns n the ctes. rathe than eplcate what Keshet ceated n bstn, the wk t tansmt cuculum esuces and what the’ve leaned aut anzn, caltn-uldn, and acltatn dcult cnvesatns wth the ups. ben awaded a byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant s mptant t idt n a smlc level – the unds pvded cme wth the suppt the ente byfi alumn cmmunt. cmmunt. “it eall means a lt t me t e suppted n ths wk ellw bnmanm,” idt ams. Keshet’s Keshet’s mssn nclusn elects byfi’s byfi’s eths plualsm and pen dalue. W th idt’s idt’s nvlvement, byfi hpes t n pammn n gLbT ssues t alumn. one idt’s pudest mments was a quet ne, sttn alne at he desk, when she eceved an e-mal m an 83 ea ld Jewsh lesan wh had just watched Hnen. He e-mal ead, “i have neve elt welcmed n the Jewsh cmmunt. i culdn’t nd a shul t sa kaddsh n m patne 60 eas ate she passed awa a cuple eas a. Thank u
shwn me that anthe knd cmmunt s pssle.” f me nmatn vst www.keshetnlne. www.keshetnlne.
ari Lipmn (BYFI ’95) Faith Vote Columbus A Lpman (byfi ‘95) s an actvst and anze. As unde fath Vte Clumus n oh, he s leadn an nteath caltn elus cneatns, nehhd asscatns and la unns cmmtted t nceasn vte tunut n uan pecncts. fath Vte Clumus cnnects t 130 pecncts, mstl lw-ncme nehhds, whee vte tunut n the 2004 pesdental electn was elw 50% esteed vtes. rht nw, the’e wkn wth oh Seceta State Jenne bunne t ensue that the Nveme 2008 electn uns smthl, smthl, wthut the ln lnes n uan pecncts that maed the 2004 vte. Hs nn-patsan anzatn hpes t maxmze the pltcal pwe dsenanchsed cmmuntes. A st develped a passn scal justce as a student at Havad, whee he helped stat the Havad Squae Hmeless Shelte. “All a sudden,” he sas, “i mved m a nce D.C. suu t Camde. Twent Twent ads awa m m dm, peple wee sleepn n ates.” Wkn wth the geate bstn inteath oanzatn, A helped uld a caltn elus leades advcatn scal chane n Massachusetts. Wth the suppt ve ne thusand vluntees m bstn’s elus cmmuntes, gbio successull pessued the Massachusetts venment t enact statewde unvesal health cae. in Ma 2007, the pessve allance Take back Ameca acknwleded A’s A’s le n ths wk wth ts Maa Leave Tute Awad. A eleves that actvsm s deepl ted n Jewsh tadtn. “The ne thn that exsts n Tah that dd nt exst n an cntempa elus cde was the exhtatn t cae the wdw, the phan, and the stane,” stane,” sas
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A, whse andathe and eat-andathe wee la anzes. “it’s “it’s a le the Jewsh cmmunt t ctque venmental and elus authtes, and t n them twad a me just vsn the wld.” A, wh nw hlds a maste’s deee n thelcal studes m Havad Dvnt Schl, cedts hs byfi summe helpn hm develp the stn Jewsh dentt that udes hm n hs wk wth elus leades. “i i walk nt an Acan-Amecan Pentecstal chuch, i need t knw the tadtn, and me mptantl, wh i am and whee i came m. That was a pat what byfi dd me.” Wth an electn ea appachn, A hpes t uld a sncant vtn lc aund scal ssues. fath Vte Clumus has alead seen success, wkn wth gven Ted Stckland t expand health nsuance pams t lw-ncme oh esdents. “i u can clam t hld 20,000 vtes n oh,” A sas, “that’s a deal.” f me nmatn vst www.h-a.
Elizbeh Ochs (BYFI ’01) Street Sights Elzaeth ochs (byfi ’01) s dedcated t advcac the hmeless. Elzaeth s the cdnatn edt Steet Shts, a mnthl rhde island newspape wtten peple wh ae hmeless, wee n the past. The newspape seves as a um the hmeless and advcates, students, state cals, and the eneal pulc t shae accuate and hnest nmatn aut what t means t lve n the s teets and hw t help the peple wh d. The newspape was deunct untl a lttle ve a ea a, when Elzaeth tk chae. Snce then, unde he dectn, t has wn t dstute 2,000 cpes a mnth t rhde island’s island’s senats and epesentatves, all maj news suces, and eve maj hmeless shelte and sevce pvde n the Pvdence aea. it als es t kstes, laes and cmmunt centes. The pape ncludes wtn, at, news stes, and pnn peces.
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Steet Shts stves t uld a cmmunt peple wh, Elzaeth explans, “ae nt dened what the lack, ut what ts the n t the pductn.” The newspape ams t empwe ts eptes. one wte wh was hmeless when he st t nvlved stated tw clumns, the “Humantaan Awad” and the “ranw Awad,” that hn anzatns and ndvduals wh chane the lves hmeless peple n rhde island. Tda, da, he has wked hs wa up t ecme the maazne’s maazne’s ceatve wtn edt and s n hs wa t mvn nt hs wn apatment.
da schl pees wee nt amla wth Jewsh le utsde Nth Ameca and isael. in cllee, she saw ends etun m anzed tps t isael wth a deep lve the land ut lttle cntact wth isaels. Ths cncened he. Accdn t Jd, “cnnectns ased n places ae less sustanale than cnnectns ult thuh peple.” Jd’s expeence as a bnman fellw tauht he ths sthand. Whle n he byfi summe, Jd cnnected wth isael Amtm, a paallel cht bnman fellws m isael. She wtnessed nte-Jewsh dalue “wthut the antansm.”
The byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant helped ensue that Elzaeth culd cntnue he wk wth Steet Shts. Elzaeth s ateul ths suppt. ”S man ndvduals n the byfi cmmunt seve as nspn examples what t means t lve ut ne’s values and eles,” she sas. f Elzaeth, Steet Shts s he wa epan the wld, lvn the Jewsh cncept tkkun lam; t s an expessn he Judasm and pvdes ulllment. Elzaeth explans: “i am n awe all the peple i meet wh nd a wa t ette the lves and thse aund them, even when the ae stuln t each a stale place.”
Jd plans t cntnue the plualstc dalue she wtnessed n byfi, chsn t plt Shme Ach n the Pacc Nthwest, a en whee man Jews ae unalated. She hpes t cnnect them t Judasm thuh scal justce. Jewsh Amecan students m and the Unvest oen wll enae n scal actn pjects wth isael students m the Technn and Haa Unvest. Students wll vst ne anthe’s cuntes, hea speakes, stud Jewsh texts, and cnduct cmmunt sevce pjects elated t mmatn.
f me nmatn vst www.steetshts.
One o Wch Jodi Meyerowiz (BYFI ’05) Jd Meewtz (byfi ’05) s n he sen ea at the Unvest oen, ut she has alead emaked n an amtus pject whse al s n less than t “ceate a uned Jewsh cmmunt.” Jd s c-unde Shme Ach, an entepeneual nt--pt amed at sten pesnal cnnectns etween cllee students n isael and the U.S. thuh cmmunt-ased leann. She alances he cmmtment t Shme Ach wth he studes n Ecnmcs and Plannn, Pulc Plc, and Manaement and le as Pesdent oen Hllel. When Jd mmated mmated t Ptland, oen at the ae ten m Suth Aca, she was supsed t nd that man he Jewsh
Jd was ecnzed he leadeshp PesenTense, a Jewsh ncuat pam. Tethe wth Shme Ach’s c-unde Jame Zeak, she spent 6 weeks ths summe pepan the pject and leann pactcal leadeshp and anzatnal sklls as a PesenTense fellw. Shme Ach has als eceved seed undn m the byfi Alumn Ventue fund. Jd s alead ettn a sense what leadeshp n the Jewsh cmmunt entals: “empwen thes,” and, she sas wth a lauh, “man eal mnns and late nhts.” n
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Kndeaten whch leaves ne lne munchkn et unschled. That means we nw have teens, tweens and tddles smultaneusl. AgggHHH. i am wkn eelance m hme, attendn ad schl ull-tme and wll have a Mastes n Human Sevces specalzn n Nnpt Manaement as the end the ea. i am anxusl awatn the sae etun m hu m Ahanstan. i am als statn m wn nnpt (Hme fnt Heats) supptn mlta amles (whch the bnman Alumn Ventue fund has eneusl suppted). i’m seekn wlln vluntees t e sevces, expetse, etc. n tems uldn the anzatn (www.hmentheats.). MiChael COlsOn in Deceme 2007
i let geneva, Swtzeland, ate lvn thee 10 eas t mve t Washntn, DC whee i tk the j as Dect isael Pams the Chales and Lnn Schusteman faml fundatn. M ant makn ptl ncludes undn the stud mden isael at unvestes acss the Unted States; develpn ceatve, enan, and eectve was t teach aut isael n K-12 mal and nmal educatnal nsttutns; and undn hh schl and unvest isael advcac pams. And pesnall, i am, as i wte ths emal, n m wa t isael whee next week i’ll e man a wndeul l m Hezla. Reba COnnell has een mmesed
n the stud mndulness medtatn. She enjs pactcn a and s cuentl dn a teache tann Mndulness based Stess reductn. in he usness, Cente Stess reductn, www.centestesseductn www.centestesseductn.cm, .cm, she des pschtheap wth cuples, ndvduals, and teens, and stess eductn wkshps n the wkplace. She s als studn t e a ceted gttman Methd Cuples theapst wth Jhn and Jule gttman, wh as t happens ae elus Jews. She lves ndn and teachn ems m Jewsh tadtn elated t healn. She helps t lead a recnstuctnst Havuah, o Zaua, whee she chants tah n Heew and tanslates nt Enlsh m a pesent mment psch-sptual pespectve. She s pen t a shddach wth a wndeul wman...especall nw that a maae s leal n Calna. She has als een wtn ltu snce she was n bnman. She ecentl had the kavd (hn) e-wtn the Sheva b’acht (7 lessns) n th Enlsh and Heew he ends’ lesan weddn. She chanted the lessns n Heew whle thes shaed them n Enlsh. The cuple was leall maed n Calna as well as welcmed u Jewsh cmmunt. cmmunt. adaM davidsOn i maed the lvel
Jen banu n Nveme, 2007. i’m stll a lal ecnmcs cespndent at
NPr, whch i cntnue t lke a lt. i’m headn up a team that wll t t make the lal ecnm me nteestn nn-usness audences. JennifeR GeRstel i just had a new
a, Madelene, at the end Jul. She jns u tw ea ld, Alexanda. M husand and i lve n Natck, MA and i am n the acult at Lasell Cllee, a small cllee n Newtn, MA. A ve n ut ewadn suuan exstence! daniel handleR i’m n San fancsc
wth m chamn we Lsa bwn. i have een tavelln ththe and n, pemn a pece naat and chesta (nt unlke Pete and the Wl) enttled The Cmpse is Dead, whch i wte n cllaatn wth a cmpse, pse, and i am at wk n m uth nvel adults. M we, an llustat, pulshed he secnd pctue k ths ea, ea, enttled Smetmes yu get What yu yu Want, and last ea we pulshed u st k t ethe, ethe, The Latke Wh Culdn’t Stp Sceamn. ou the cllaatn, u sn ott, wll tun ve n octe. Hs nteest n tans can eneusl e desced as manacal. dan JaCObsOn We have nw een
n isael 3 eas, and lvn n u newl ult hme n the Judean hlls ne ea. ou kds ae happ, adjusted, speakn Heew luentl and speakn Enlsh peectl wth a dp an isael accent (what can u d...). We ae just wappn up a mldl elaxn summe dn pschl wk (and hann ut wth the kds dun the mnth Auust whch s dead hee). Dass and i ae th us wth u psch. pactces, and i’m enjn and ullled m a/pschlst wk n a “ap-ea” eshva pam Amecan us n Jeusalem. ou eshva s n...the gldsten uth vllae! Le n isael s hectc, smetmes ustatn, dal ndsh lke evewhee, and als a temendus t and nspatn. We have the d tune t lve n ne the hhest places n isael (Neve Danel n gush Etzn, just suth Jeusalem), whee we see Jeusalem t the nth, Jdan (Mav muntans) t the east, the utskts Hen t the suth, and the Medteanean t the west. it’s eautul. Alwas happ an bnmanm past pesent, isael Amecan wh wuld e nteested n jnn us a shaat. sheila elana Jelen i am lvn n
Slve Spn, Maland wth m husand Seth and m thee chlden, Malka (10), Nava (7) and Akva (2). i teach Enlsh and Judac Studes at the Unvest Maland, Cllee Pak, and just t tenue n Ma. i am cuentl thnkn a lt aut the wa lteatue that was wtten n the pe-Hlcaust ped s ead ethnaphcall (and nt as lteatue) n the pst-Hlcaust ped, and i am hpn t wte aut t n m next k. i eel lessed t e ale t ead
and teach and wte a lvn, and nw that i have j secut, i am takn a eath and enjn m chlden even me then i was ee ( that s pssle). Last summe i taveled t isael as a bnman acult meme and enjed wkn wth Shmn mmensel. i even t t spend sme tme n the last ew das the tp wth Av (wh s a Slve Spn neh, althuh i neve see hm hee). Shanah Tvah t evene! deb KORnfeld i was a Judac dect
ths summe at camp ch n Wscnsn. it was un t e at summe camp wth m kds. M dauhte chava s 9 and she had a last as a campe n a unk all summe and m sn Ele wh s 4 was wth me and an all ve camp. it s als ve nce t e ack hme n Clad whee i have lved 18 eas! M ndependent uteach nnpt nteath and Jewsh unalated amles s dn eat. The need s hue n bulde and Clad meannul Jewsh educatn and expeences. Anwa i am stll unnn muntans, teachn spnnn classes, and kn wth m kds. saRah laRsOn r and i ae us juln schl, caee and aml lke evene else. At 46, r cuaeusl decded t et the cpate teadmll and pusue a PhD. it has een wld t have a student n the huse - an adjustment ut als eall eat t have hm hme me. Adan (5) s n t gan ilan ths ea - a Jewsh kndeaten n Laaette wth a wppn 6 kds! He had a last leann new spts and spendn tme wth ends ths summe. He’s He’s supe phscal ut ets hs emtnal nsht and ntutveness m hs dad. Jula (2) stats at Temple Sna’s Peschl Peschl ths ea s we’ll e dn a lt schleppn t schls. She’s She’s a eal ht - ve damatc, atstc, and ndependent. i’m stll cnsultn n anzatnal develpment and have een us wkn at Dee’s ice Ceam (um) and Lev’s ths last ea. i’ve taken n 3 “emplees” s ts een un t have patnes t cllaate wth n m usness. All thee ae dnamc Jewsh wmen - ue. Wth all m ee tme (hah) i’ve een enjn all tpes mvement and tness expeences lke Kness, spnnn, hp hp, etc. We’e stll lvn oakland and the “N Cal” expeence - .e. en clse t Tahe, eaches, cultue, etc. open nvtatn t lks wh ae passn thuh lve nea. nea. We d a hppe/dpp/nteath shaat s cme n . hallie lOeb it’s nall m tun t
shek, “i’m enaed!” othe than the m’s name, Mak Neuman St. Lus, Mo, n detals t ept. Mak and i have een tethe 3+ eas, and have knwn each the even lne. lne. Mak and a ve cl se cusn mne met at Ash n Jeusalem (thuh nw ehaltated), wee mmates n Chca, and -w, wll e cusns ve
sn. Mak and i ae lvn n St. Lus, cddln m senle, sen d and havn lts un wth hs 4 ea ld d. i’m wkn n cneences and meetns a natnal tade asscatn and Mak s an iT specalst wth a cnsultn m. ben lOwenstein We ae hee n
Suthen Mane. i am wkn as a Cadlst etween tw hsptals. i am th the Dect The Heat falue Pam yk Hsptal and Dect Nn-invasve Cadl at Ptsmuth renal Hsptal. i am stan us at wk and hme wth m we beth and m chlden, Aella (7), Annaelle (5) and Sam (2). We have enjed le n the cean ths summe tn t catch sh e than the kds. in addtn, i am tn t e a d example t m patents and taned m st spnt duathln/tathln. We hpe t see peple sn, and u ae eve n Mane - ve a uzz! lauRen ROth i am a pschtheapst
n pvate pactce n Lakewd, New Jese, Jese, whee i l ve wth m husand and m 5 and 1/2 chlden! yes, we ae expectn u sxth chld n Nveme, gd wlln! i hmeschl m 10th and 8th ade sns the secula studes ptn the da. da. The est the da, the ae n eshvas hee n Lakewd. i speak n man deent venues all ve the Unted States, aut maae, paentn, healthul eatn, and vaus Tah tpcs, and i lve the tavel and tul enj meetn peple m all deent walks le. Ate wkn n t seven eas, i nall nshed a nvel, aut the destuctveness wa and hated, and the healn pwe lve. i’ll stat lkn aents and pulshes ate the a s n. M husand s a etnal suen and a Pess Medcne at ret Wd Jhnsn Medcal Schl. Last ut nt least, i ve much enjed seen evene m ‘87 at the 20th eunn!
1988 Collected by Ella S hteingart lauRa alpeRsOn ecentl mved t
Alan Ny wth he husand, baz and tw chlden, yav and Matan. P t the th he sns, Laua pactced la and emplment ltatn n Ptaland oen. Ate stan hme a ew eas, Laua ecentl stated a j at the Alan Law Schl’s oce insttutnal Advancement as an Advancement oce. it’s a wndeul place t wk and a lt me pstve than ltatn! ROnda anGel aRKinG cuentl lves n baltme and wks as a eelance wte and edt vaus educatnal and academc pulshes. She has thee sns (Andew, 9; Jnathan, 7; and Jeem, Jeem, 21 mnths), wh keep he VEry us! rnda’s een nvlved n undn a new snaue n baltme, Netvt Shalm, whch espuses a leal othdx phlsph, and she’s als nvlved n the Jewsh
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BYFI Clss Noes othdx femnst Allance. She s cmpletn a Maste’s deee n ble m baltme Heew Unvest. RObyn faRbeR lves n ivne Calna wth he husand, Mac Kshaum, and tw amazn dauhtes: Za (5) and Temma Temma (2). rn s calln n all bnmanm wh have an expetse n educatn undasn. She s tn t et a “Jewsh Mntess Pe-Schl the und”. i anne s nteested n ths pject please cntact rn. Maya Maya fis ChhOff wks at Mchan State Unvest, and epts t e datn smene ve nce named Zad. She lves the Mdwest and encuaes evene t cnsde mvn t Mchan whee “thee’s a knd eaut n latness and peple ae ve endl.” in he spae tme she es ln walks, vluntees at a hmeless shelte, shelte, hects he thes and akes unleavened ead. aaROn hendelMan just mved t Seattle wth hs we and thee chlden: Tess, Nah and Ella (!!!)! The Hendelman aml splts vacatn tme etween fance, whee Aan’s we s m, and Texas, whee Aan’s aml stll lves. Aan cntnues t wk as an ntellectual ppet lawe a lae technlcused law m. JeReMy hOCKenstein and hs we, ra Janna Samuels, have a newn sn Natan. The aml aln wth sste ol wh s nw 2.5 eas ld lve n NyC. on the wk nt, Jeem s nw wkn ull-tme as CEo the nn-pt cmpan Dtal Dvde Data, whch he unded. DDD nw empls 500 peple n Camda and Las. aRi KelMan has settled n bekele Calna. He teaches ppula cultue and the meda n the Amecan Studes Depatment at UC Davs. Thuh A has een studn and wtn aut cntempa Jewsh cultue, hs latest eseach nvlves cntempa Chstan wshp musc. Lk ut hs ks n the suject cmn ut sn. ayelet KupeR lves n Tnt wth he husand Andew. Aelet s phscan at Sunnk Health Scences Cente. She s als a medcal educat and an Assstant Pess at the Unvest Tnt, whee he eseach cuses n the hstcal develpment letmate knwlede wthn medcal educatn eseach. MiChelle lynn-saChs s a pud mthe a 9 mnth ld dauhte, Phee. She s cuentl an assstant pess Jewsh educatn at the Jewsh Thelcal Semna and lves n bkln Ny. JOe Menashe and hs we Deah Mushe and chlden Mll 3 and gael 1 lve n Dallas, TX. He s wkn as a a at Cneatn Sheath isael. david seliGMan Cnatulatns t Davd Selman wh s ettn maed n oct 4. Davd admts that hs ancée bets, bets, a me scal wke and cuent a nstuct, has tten Davd t e “nvluntal healthe”. Davd s stll a estuctun lawe n Chca at
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Kkland and Ells. ella shteinGaRt (nadelsOn) s mthe thee. He ldest sn just stated mddle schl ths ea (mpssle t eleve!) and the a just tuned 8 mnths. Ella w ks as a pam ce at a pvate undatn n NyC whee she manaes schlashp pams enaln undepvleed wmen t attan hhe educatn. tanya tanya sChlaM ecentl cmpleted he PhD n clncal pschl m rutes and stated a eseach pst-dc at the Cente Tacc Tacc reseach and inteventn n the Unvest Wscnsn Schl Medcne and Pulc Health. She lves n Madsn, Wi wth he husand Jdan Ellene wh s a math pess at the Unvest Wscnsn and the 3-ea-ld sn Cale. JOnathan teppeRMan lves n NyC and s the assstant manan edt at Newsweek intenatnal. Jnathan s espnsle the Asa, Mddle East and Aca cveae. JOshua wallaCh and hs we ae stll happl lvn n bkln and ae ttall thlled t e expectn the st chld n Janua. Jsh cuentl wks n the Ma’s Ma’s ce n Lwe Manhattan edevelpment, whch ncludes the Wld Tade Cente ste and the nehhds aund t. adaM ZaMbilOwiCZ wll e sn mvn nt a huse n the wds n a small twn n btsh Cluma wth hs we and 2 chlden, Sam and Sphe. Adam wks as a pdatst and s als cnductn eseach thuh a ant m Pze. He splts hs pactce etween Sechelt and small slated, castal cmmuntes.
1989 Collected by Amir Karger aMiR baR-lev i was maed n
Jul 4th. M we, Jenne blee, blee, s a junalst. i am a lmmake lvn n bkln. M last dcumenta, “M Kd Culd Pant That”, was eleased n the all 2007. i am cuentl w kn n a lm aut a tall plae tuned Am ane Pat Tllman. david beRns i am cuentl lvn n
Ca, Ept whee i wk as a pltcal ce at the U.S. Emass. Ca s an nteestn place, a t hectc.
lke the Judaean Hlls a d wk ut! ChaRlie buCKhOltZ i am a a
n the East Vllae. Nt the ad knd a, thuh. The d knd. i just cauthed a k, u shuld ead t! it’s a d k. i, ne, enjed t thuhl. (http://www.nheavenevethnsne.cm/bk.html) Als, i’m enaed t e maed.
Tenet bet Dn (the equvalent a dvce lawe n the elus cut n isael). f the past sx eas i’ve een hme wth m kds uldn wth les, dn sctes, and dn math hmewk. T keep m mnd and d m cmplete atph i’ve een leann Da ym (ne pae Talmud a da) and dn m ke (anwhee m 15-30 km) a ew das a week. Thee’s nthn
bstn ve sx eas, wkn a lcal pvate equt m. We’ve t a eat 15-mnth ld , Nah and ae expectn anthe due n mdNveme. RaChel (lebOwitZ) COhen i am
Ate ecevn a Ph.D. n Clncal Pschl, chl, i am nw sevn as an Adjunct Pess and enjn en a mthe t Andew (6-1/2) and Clae (3-1/2).
pat-tme plc cnsultn and vlunteen. i jned an “pen othdx” snaue - whle the sevces ae cnducted n the othdx tadtn, thee s a ane n the level sevance the cneants (and the shul tes t meet the educatnal and sptual needs all ts memes). i patcpated n the behend insttute, “whch pvdes mnthl semnas t help lcal cmmunt la leades wk n sklls t help them ette seve u cmmunt”. The behend insttute emnded me s much m summe n the bnman pam; t uht tethe Jews m all anches Judasm t shae pespectves and help nm each the’s wa thnkn aut Jewsh cmmunal sevce. Lke n the bnman pam, t was s nce t meet nteestn peple wh neve stp thnkn.
JessiCa (CZaRlinsKy) GReGG We
welcmed Sasha Anna ve weeks a (Au 3). b sste Ze ae 4 s a hue help and handul at the same tme. Chalestn, SC s eautul and dentel the Suth. JOn duKe T launt m lack ead
nancal stalt, i ecentl let m hh-pan dct j n Atlanta t ecme a lwl ellw n Medcal inmatcs at the reenste insttute n indanapls. i am spendn mst m das deamn up caz uses technl n the health cae settn. i’ll e dn a deee n Human-Cmpute inteactn aln the wa t keep thns nteestn. Hadn’t spent much tme n the Mdwest ee, ut we ae enjn the pace and the wndeul peple. abiGail (heitleR) hiRsCh We ae
lvn n m gandmthe’s 15 ace am whch s nw n the mddle the ct. i lve aes, ut i’m delhted t ealze that the pst-dape ea has ts wn wndeul supses - lke aml tps that ae actuall un! i have smewhat accdentall landed a 2.75M 5-ea edeal ant t make nlne maae educatnal mateals. S, wth 2 thes and a kd i used t ast (Danel besn, bnman ‘98) we’ve launched a we-tann cmpan. it’s een a last ndn msel as CEo a stat-up that ascall has 5 eas n-stns anel undn. www.pwetw. ves a mn-taste. dana (heRdOOn) RauCheR i am
spendn mst m tme wth m husand, yss, chasn ate u ne and a hal ea ld sn Etan. We all lve n NyC. aMiR KaRGeR b da, i help lsts
Jenny bRenneR i am a lcensed
MiChael KuMin i have een n
MaRisa (dOlinsKy) Cahall
steve biRnhOlZ Ate a decade n
flda state venment, i am cuentl the reseach & issues Dect the flda Cuncl 100, a up tp flda CEos, whch advses state plcmakes n a wde vaet pulc plc ssues.
am. Executve Dect Keshet, a nn-pt that wks a, a, lesan, sexual, and tansende nclusn n Jewsh le.
use cmputes n the eseach. b nht, i’ve taken up snwtn. Cuentl c-wtn a Pum “Ppscal”. in m spae tme, i’m tn t ue ut what ‘Mden othdx’ means.
eliZabeth plOtKin siMMOns
i have een lvn n West Hatd, CT and enjn le n the suus. i wk pat-tme at the Unvest Cnnectcut as an phthalmlst specalzn n medcal etna. i am penant and due n the ennn Nveme. Nveme. shawn Ruby We just passed u 8th
alah annvesa. i am uldn the Znst deam helpn m custmes tun the deset nt mcchps. i am ve nvlved n lcal cmmunt and Kadma pat pltcs. sCOtt savitZ i have een analzn
chemcal, lcal, and adlcal deense (aln wth m ne cuntemeasues and the aeas) the U.S. Nav. immedatel ate 9/11, i went t bahan t suppt Nav ces n the Pesan gul. M caee has just taken an exctn tun; i’ve een lued awa t suppt the Depatment Hmeland Secut. recentl, recentl, i dscveed the lve m le, and we expect t et maed n the next ea. renee Sten i lve n Decatu g ea wth husand ge Shap, sn Sam (n Auust 2007), and tw cats olve & The. i cntnue t wk as sta cnsevat the Mchael C. Cals Museum at Em Unvest whee i am als an adjunct lectue n the Depatment At Hst.
idit Klein Ate ullln m chld-
hd deam and makn alah at 21, i llwed n m paents’ tsteps and came ack t the States ‘ a ew mnths.’ Well, 11 eas late hee i stll
anGela waRniCK buChdahl
i am the Sen Cant Cental Snaue, n Manhattan. i just etuned m isael whee i led a aml tp m
Cental, nn m chlden t isael the st tme. i passed the gldsten yuth Vllae and thuht u eat summe ‘89, whch stll t ths da, da, was the mst nl uental summe m le.
susan wOlf ditKOff lves n
m dssetatn n Latn Amecan Hst at the Unvest Chca ths ea. i am als hpn t land a tenue-tack j ths ea (an advce s appecated m thse wh have ne). When i teach cllee students these das aut the 1980s ee mst them wee n, i can sa i was aund and ememe the st intada, the all the beln Wall, reaan/bush i, the USSr...sca thuht.
bklne, MA wth he husand Jseph and tw chlden, Ana and Zacha. Zacha. Susan wks at the bdespan gup, a nnpt pessnal sevces m alated wth ban & C. that helps anzatns ncease the scal mpact. She cuses n statec plannn and leadeshp ssues undatns and educatn nnpts. She was als elected t bklne Schl Cmmttee (als knwn as the schl ad) n Ma. Jseph s Deput Leal Cunsel and ADA at the Sulk Cunt DA’s ce n bstn. Ana enjs attendn nuse schl at Kehllath isael, whee Jseph s a ad meme, and Zacha enjs chasn ate Ana.
1990 Collected by Diana Bloom
yOssi “JOe” fendel i am lvn
diana blOOM i am lvn n Tampa
n bekele, CA w th m we, Tama, Tama, and tw chlden, Shshana s ve and A s tw. i’m wkn n Secutes Lendn reseach at baclas glal invests, and i’m cuentl sevn as Pesdent the bad Dects Mdasha n bekele, a cmmunt Jewsh hh schl pam whch has pduced man bnman fellws ve the eas, ncludn msel, Mean Lews, and Lsa inman!
MiKael wOlfe i wll nall cmplete
flda wth m husand Aan and u 4 1/2 ea ld twns Elana and gl. i have een wkn as a tane and pulc elatns amassad Weht Watches intenatnal the past 10 eas as well as taveln aund the Unted States tann cpate executves n the sklls and pcesses that wll ncease pductvt and accuntalt n the cmpanes.
seMa banK GOldstein ou st JOnathan bResMan i am lvn
n Pak Slpe these das wth m lend, Nelle Zupancc (n the same uldn as Elssa gtman!). b da i’m a sen edt at MAD Maazne and nht i’m a ad student at Teaches Cllee, Cluma Unvest. i keep up wth the fellwshp en n the Alumn Advs bad (n jke - even thuh as ths wtn, m pht and aen’t up n the weste, t’s tue!) and t neve als t eak me ut that thee ae fellws wh ween’t n et when i went n byfi ack n 1990. Anwa, cme vst me at MAD smetme. i et tns ee ts and cmc ks hee and can’t ve them awa ast enuh.
l (ate 3 wndeul s) Ataa rachel was n 5 mnths a. i am stll pactcn ob/gyN n Enlewd NJ, ut have ecentl chaned pactces. M husand, Ashe gldsten, has pened a 3d pan manaement pactce lcatn n Paamus NJ (n addtn t thse n NyC and Teaneck, NJ). Wshn i culd attend me bnman events...
me. in Ma, Ma, me, m we -- rachel Kn -- and 4-ea-ld dauhte Na welcmed a Adn bauch nt the aml. i lmed as a cntestant n “Ae yu Smate Than a 5th-gade” (the wee lkn a a!) -- a date stll undetemned. rachel passed he Talmud exam that places he n tack en daned as a a next Ma. And then i ean a new ull-tme j at the Jewsh fedeatn geate Ls Aneles, veseen un adult ntatves wth a specal cus n pams LA alumn bthht isael pams. i cntnue t seve pat-tme as the a Temple Am Shalm and am als teachn the flence Meltn Adult Mn-Schl. i’m wkn n ndn tme t eathe.
Rabbi bRett KRiChiveR s the new
Sen Jewsh Educat UCLA Hllel n Ls Aneles. Ths plt pam thuh intenatnal Hllel places educats n ve campuses n Nth Ameca t supevse student ntens and pvde ceatve uteach t unalated students. ou al s t expand the cncept enaement end the walls Hllel, and i am excted t e a pat ths new ntatve.
dauhte Jdanna was n at the end June, jnn he lde sste gaella wh tuned 2 n Auust. i’m statn m thd ea teachn Jewsh thuht at NyU.
ae lvn n bklne, MA. i am the Dect Jewsh Educatn at the bstn Unvest Hllel and, aln wth m we Sha, am pat the Jewsh Leann intatve n Campus. i am tann the Phladelpha maathn n Nveme and statn an aud pdcast that shuld e avalale m Tunes, called the Weekl Dse Tah. i an bnmanm want t sn up the emal vesn, u can alwas each me at aav@u.edu. JOnathan JOnathan Kaplan i nshed m
plastc sue ellwshp at the Cleveland Clnc n June 2007 - 12 eas schl and tann ate cllee! S i’m nall ut n the eal wld. i mved ack t Lusana and stated up a pactce jntl wth a hsptal n batn rue. i am als actn as a Clncal Assstant Pess wth the
yna. i teach Jewsh hst at the Unvest Washntn and eseach mden Jewsh pltcal thuht. Seattle s a wndeul place t lve and we wuld lve t encuae east-cast ented ellws t cnsde vstn/elcatn t the Pacc Nthwest! Judith ROsenbauM i lve n
bstn wth m husand, o rse, and u twns, Ma’aan and Avv, wh wll e tw n Nveme. Nveme. i wk as the Dect Pulc Hst at the Jewsh Wmen’s Wmen’s Achve. in m spae tme (ha ha ha), i’m als n the eal staes a k pject n dentns “The Jewsh Mthe” n the 21st centu, centu, whch i hpe t nsh ee the centu’s centu’s end. ou lves ae lled wth the wnde tddlehd, as well as the challenes the wk/le cntnuum.
leah Mundell i ecentl elcated
t flasta, Azna wth m husand Davd and thee-and-a-hal-eald Madelne and eht-mnth-ld gael. Davd has a acult pstn n the phscs and astnm depatment at Nthen Azna Unvest. i nshed m Ph.D. n anthpl u eas a and snce then have dne sme teachn at the Unvest Azna and wked as a eseach cnsultant a cmmunt anzatn n Tucsn, called the Pma Cunt inteath Cuncl. M dssetatn cused n elatnshps etween ath-ased anzatns and pulc schls n Phladelpha, s i eall enjed wkn an anzatn much lke the ne i’d spent s much tme wtn aut. Hpeull i’ll e ale t nd smla wk n flasta. KiM van naaRden-bRaun
MiChah GOttlieb ou secnd
avi helleR We have 3 chlden and RiCK bROdy i had a ve us sum-
Dvsns Plastc Sue LSU and Tulane Medcal Centes helpn tan the plastc sue ellws. in m ee tme i tavel t destnatns as clse as New oleans as a as New yk and isael. i’m actve wth the fedeatn, UJC’s Natnal yun Leadeshp Canet and the JDC. i stll enj wate and snw skn and unnn.
i am stll wth the Centes Dsease Cntl and Peventn wkn pmal n the Epdeml Autsm and Ceeal Pals (as well as the develpmental dsaltes). Jsh just nshed hs ellwshp n Chld and Adlescent Pschat. We mved 3 weeks a t Westeld, NJ. He s stll n-sta at Mntee/Alet Ensten, ut s wkn ull-tme as a Chld, Adlescent and Adult Pschatst at Mstwn Memal Hsptal and has stated a pvate pactce n Summt. Sphe s nw 3 1/2 and Sam s 17 mnths and the ae such un. JOshua neuMan i am maed t
Danelle and we have tw ls, Mchal s 4 eas ld and Eden s 15 mnths ld. We lve n Manhattan and i am stll at the same j i’ve een at the last 7 eas. i was wth bea Steans Mechant bankn ut nw that bea Steans was acqued JP Man, m up s spnnn ut t e ts wn pvate equt cmpan. cmpan. nOaM pianKO i am lvn n Seattle
wth m we rachel Nussaum (byfi ‘93) and u ne-ea-ld dauhte,
dana weinbeRGeR i have een lv-
n n bulde, Co snce Auust 2007. i mved hee wth m patne wh stated aduate schl at Unvest Clad at bulde. i am wkn a phamaceutcal cnsultn cmpan, pan, enjn the clean C lad a, and dn a lt kn and hkn. beth ZaslOff The k i c-
authed wth Eda just came ut--Hpe, Nt fea: A Path t Jewsh renassance. i lve n bkln and have tw dauhtes, glana, ae u, and Nam, sxteen mnths.
1991 Collected by Amber Levanon Seligson geetns m the byfi class 1991! We have lts d news t shae m u cht. Seveal us ae lvn n isael, ncludn shiRa ReifMan and yaiR silveRMan . Sha and he aml made alah a ea a (Jul 31, 2007) and ae nw lvn n yad yad bnamn, a cmmunt aut 40 mnutes west Jeusalem. Sha has u dauhtes, Mam (8 1/2), Hadaa (5 1/2), Tkva, and Chedva (twns, 3 1/2) all whm ae nteatn eautull and, g-d wlln, she s expectn t welcme he st Saa chld n Janua. Sha’s husand Danel s teachn at tw Mdasht n Jeusalem and Sha s wkn a small UK ased cnsultn m called Secue Pspects that pvdes Pr, maketn, und asn and manaement cnsultn t nn-pts n isael. ya and hs we ilana have een lessed wth a eus and sweet a l named Asha Tda, n n Mach 3, 2008. b sste Hada (4) and the Adn (2) ae lvn he wth eat ntenst. Tw eas nt the isael mve t he ae stll savn the js Zchn yaackv. yaackv. in tac ut tue isael ashn ya s wkn at 4 js: uldn a wam pen dvese cmmunt n Zchn, dectn the yun Leade’s fellwshp yCT, teachn at the Hesde yeshva Petach Tkva,and
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BYFI Clss Noes pmn isael executves scal leadeshp. Als lvn aad, MaRta weiss s n Lndn wth he husand, Alex Paseau. Snce Jul 2007, she has een Cuat Phtaphs at the Vcta and Alet Museum. She nshed he dssetatn n Vctan phtaph and eceved he PhD m Pncetn n June 2008. in the US, JaKe dORMan s statn hs secnd ea as a pess Acan Amecan hst and Amecan Studes at the Unvest Kansas n Lawence, whch he lves. Cnta t ppula pnn, Easten Kansas s nt lat, and n act he des a ke t wk n tp a steep hll and sees vstas nce seen pnees n the oen tal headn West, Jhn bwn htn the ces slave, and a un Lanstn Huhes, wh ew up thee n hs mthe’s hmetwn. Lawence s a eat cllee twn lke bekele Ann A, and eatues lts mcewees, caes, k stes, ecd shps, and lve musc venues. Ths summe Jake used eseach ants t vst Jamaca, Memphs, Nashvlle, New oleans, San fancsc, Ls Aneles, and New yk, yk, as he wapped up the eseach hs st k, t e pulshed oxd Unvest Pess, enttled Chsen Peple: black isaeltes, black ishmaeltes, and black oentalsm m recnstuctn t the renassance. The k taces the develpment an oentalst steam lack altenatve elns that ncludes lack Jews, lack Muslms, and rastaaans, tacn the se t maes islam, Judasm, and the oent tansmtted thuh eemasn, C hstant, estec aths, and ppula cultue m the ccus t lm, wld’s as, and the Ancent Aac and Eptan ode Nles the Mstc Shne, aka the Shnes. in man was t was the bnman summe when Jake was seventeen that set hm n the ntellectual june cmpan lack and Jewsh natnalsms that led hm t whee he s, seventeen eas late. Als n the US, bRett abRahaMs s a UCLA pstdc. He s enjn LA, and even me s nw that he has een maed the past ea. He s lkn acult pstns. etan COhen welcmed a new sn n Mach, Maccaee. He jned hs twn sstes Dan and bevel. Etan has a mve n theates nw, Tpc Thunde, Thunde, and ne cmn n the all, Madaasca 2. Julie GelleR just let he da j t cus ull tme as a sne/snwte. sne/snwte. New mp3s shuld e up at ww w.juleelle.cm w.juleelle.cm n the cmn mnths. aMbeR levanOn seliGsOn s a dect n the New yk yk Ct Depatment Health and Mental Hene, cusn n studes ncaceated and hmeless ppulatns. gad and the dauhtes Maa
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and Dala ae lkn wad t Ame havn a new a aund Hallween. leah OppenZatO (mel oppenhem) had a a n Deceme (Jeem Anel oppenzat). ra avi ORlOw s thlled t jn the fundatn Jewsh Camp. f the past u eas Av has een the Campus ra and Assstant Dect St. Luse Hllel at Washntn Unvest. Av lves n Whte Plans wth hs we, Cant Adna fdman, and the sns, yadd yadd and yshama. He s ve excted t ecnnect wth aml and ends n the east cast. JessiCa ZellneR s enten he uth ea as an Assstant Dstct Attne at the Queens Dstct Attne’s oce. Ate spendn ne ea psecutn dmestc vlence cases, she was pmted t a eln tal ueau, whee she psecutes maj elnes - evethn m attempted mudes, ulaes, assaults, ees, and un pssessn cases. She culdn’t e happe wth he decsn t leave pvate pactce! daniel silveRbeRG We just uht
a huse n DC, whch means m aml has delaed u tumphant etun t Calna at least ve eas! i am a lawe n the Hll, and m we, Saah, just came ut wth a Jewsh chlden’s chlden’s k ttled, “The bedtme Sh’ma”. Check t ut n Amazn! dana weinbeRG i am maed t Euene Shuste, Shuste, and we lve n Ln island wth u tw chlden, Mchaela (ae 7) and Julan (ae 4). i am an Assstant Pess Scl at Queens Cllee, and m eseach aeas ae healthcae wkce, manaement, and anzatn. i am up tenue ths ea, and i am als wkn n the Ct Unvest New yk yk oce the Unvest Dean Health and Human Sevces as the Dect intedscplna reseach. i als have a cmpan that cnducts pam evaluatns.
1992 Collected by Elijah Dornstreich Thanks t s man u espndn wth u updates! f m pat, i’m lvn n Phll as i have snce cllee. i have a statup cmmecal lendn usness n the sde and i als wk ull-tme a mtae ank whch specalzes n venment lans. i was n the undn ad A Chance t Heal www.achancetheal. , whch advcates n ehal thse wth eatn dsdes, and i am an eal meme The idea Caltn, whch wll n tethe un Jewsh and Acan-Amecan pltcal and usness leades n Phladelpha, and wll have anches sn n New yk and DC. i lve n the eautul ftle Squae pat cente ct, and i welcme an u t each ut t me u pass thuh - as waRRen bRauninG dd ecentl,
when we t a ee dwntwn and cauht up, whch was excellent! Statn wth Waen, he wtes “The news n u le s the th, n June 2, u sn isaac Tal baun, wh was uht nt the cvenant n hs ehth da ee aml and ends. isaac (ike) was n a health 8 ls, 11 z, and has uht s much j and lve nt u l ves that we ael knw what t d w th t all. We ae slwl settln nt the paental utne and enjn eve mnute t. Lndsa and i ae stll lvn n San fancsc and wkn as attnes. i had the ascnatn expeence wkn n m st cmnal deense case ths past wnte, handln a judcal e case dwn n Msssspp. Lndsa s n a lenth matent leave ut lkn wad t etunn t wk next ea. othewse, we’e just enjn the Calna sun and dn all we can t elect baack oama u next pesdent.” david andORsKy wtes that “i am lvn n Ls Aneles, n m thd (and nal) ea m hematl/ncl ellwshp at UCLA. ( That’s That’s m 6th ea tann snce med schl - i wll e lad t e dne.) i am maed t Janna Ach, as Mach 18, 2007. We ecentl cmpleted a ackpackn tp n the last sectn the Jhn Mu Tal n the Sea Nevada muntans, endn n the tp Mt Whtne, Whtne, the hhest peak n the lwe 48 states (14,500 eet.)” JeReMy peRlMan wtes “i’m lvn ut n Ls Aneles nw. i’ve ecme smewhat a Calnan, havn een hee almst a decade. i’m a pedatcan. i wk and teach n the Nenatal iCU at olve Vew-UCLA hsptal. M lend just stated dental schl at USC, s we’ll pal e n LA anthe 4 eas. Ate that, wh knws? i spent a mnth n inda last ea tavelln and dn medcal wk wth HiV-nected chlden, and am wkn n settn up m next ntenatnal medcal ventue. i’ve als tten nteested n eal estate nvestn, as a wa t make mne apat m m medcal wk, whch i’d ultmatel lke t d ee.” Gina (waRniCK) COletti wtes “i am lvn n Ls Aneles wth m husand Paul Clett (als a vlst) and 1 ea ld dauhte olva. Le s etunn smewhat t a esemlance what t dd ee m dauhte aved ut t wll neve qute e the same - n a d wa cuse. M le s en a mm, vlst and we. i am a eelance vlst s that ncludes plan mve sces, wth the Ls Aneles Phlhamnc and n chame musc cncets amn the thns. M husand and i ae th muscans and that has allwed us t cllectvel teach, pem and tavel t man places all ve the wld and i am eall ateul we can d that tethe as a aml. Paul and i have lteall
passed olva t each the ackstae when ne us has exted m plan and the the s aut t pem. Musc s a aml thn wth us. i als am eall nvlved n musc un peple and un tw pams that ae dea t m heat. one s Jun Chame Musc whch puts talented kds n chame musc ensemles and ves them access t tp pessnals n LA wh ude them. The the pject s called Vlafest that ns tethe hundeds un vlsts m all ve the aea t expeence a da devted t all thns vla. i al s teach vla pvatel and eall enj the ne n ne elatnshp that i am ale t develp wth m students. olva s a t and i just ade en a mm - she has ttall chaned m le. Paul and i just celeated u 2nd ea annvesa. annvesa. We had a small weddn wth u aml es n Tuscan, Tuscan, ital tw summes a. All n all, le s wndeul and ull.” saRah fliCKeR wte: “i am a pess envnmental studes at yk Unvest n Tnt. i stud teen sexual health and HiV peventn n Canada and Suth Aca. i have a cat named Tule. Tule. i can ten e und kn aund the ct and vstn nteestn estauants and allees...” MiChael bROwn wtes: “N maae and n aes means nt much t ept! i’m a patne at a ventue captal m n Slcn Valle called fundatn Captal. Stll lvn n San fancsc just ave Dles Pak. Stated a men’s men’s chal snn up last Nveme called The flme Slms - we’e havn u st cncet Septeme 20th. i am sevn n the ad a nn-pt called TechSup that pvdes technl equpment, cunsel and cmmunt t 80,000 nn-pts n the US and lall. When nt at wk, i’m leann t ck. Stp a meal an tme all bnmanm ae welcme!” eliOt dObRis wtes “i’ve een lvn n San fancsc eleven eas nw. f the past cuple eas, i’ve had m wn pulc elatns pactce, epesentn nnpts and health cae anzatns. Havn m wn usness has een eat. i lve wth m end, Enque, n ne San fancsc’s amusl steep hlls. i u happen t e at ne San fancsc’s fancsc’s ames makets eal ne mnn and u see a u wh lks lke me, lkn the sweetest peaches the eshest eens, cme sa “H.” JOsh fRaidsteRn “and hs we, Andea Mell, welcmed benadette Shana Mell fadsten nt the wld n Jul 4th, 2008. All ae dn well and leann a lt.” MiChael suGaRMan lves n bkln and dects cmmecals. dania (bOuRKOff) MattheOs s “lvn n Ls Aneles wth m husand Pete and m sns gee (8-eas-ld), Thmas (6-eas-ld),
Nchlas (4-eas-ld), and Vct (2eas-ld).” taMaR GORdOn wtes: “M sn Elsha s 9 mnths ld and ead t ll - an secnd nw he wl l e walkn aste than me. Wk-wse, i am a supevs n a mental health clnc n ynkes, Ny, and i have a small pvate pactce n the UWS. yu can check ut m weste at www.cttheap.cm theap.cm u’e nteested n leann me aut mental health theap. theap. M husand Jsh cntnues t wk n a PhD n Talmud at JTS, and t un the bet Mdash thee.” saRah (GilleR) nelsOn wtes “The last ew eas have een ve us. us. M sn, Jack, wl l e 2 n Deceme. Deceme. He s at the pnt whee he s clmn, and unnn, and jumpn, and statn t stn tethe wds. Mst ecentl he sad, “p-p ee.” i am s pud. When i am nt chasn ate hm, i am wkn at Spetus Museum, a cntempa Jewsh museum n Chca, whee i have een the assstant cuat the past tw eas. in the exctn news, last octe m st k, Desnn the gd Le: Nman M. glle and the Develpment Mam Mdensm, was pulshed the Unvest Pess flda. i wte the k wth m late andathe Nman M. glle. The pject tk eas t cmplete, and aln the wa i had the pleasue ettn t knw an extadna man n a wa i neve culd have maned. feel ee t check ut the pess l: www.desnnthedwww.desnnthedle.lspt.cm.” Rena (davis) niCKeRsOn “s Sen band Manae at the Campell Cmpan Canada, manan the Ckn Sup ptl (n, nne them ae kshe). She pevusl held pduct manaement les at ClatePalmlve and Henz Canada, maketn leadn husehld ands. rena lves wth he husand yehuda and the chlden (Teet, 9 and gavel, 4) n Tnt, whee she s an actve ad meme and the Maketn Cha he lcal snaue, An L’Tzn.” nahanni ROus wtes that she s “stll wkn at Just Vsn n the capact Educatn Dect, desnn educatnal esuces that daw n the stes isael and Palestnan peace uldes m u dcumenta lm, Encunte Pnt, and Justvsn., and wkn wth cmmuntes and educats t mplement them. i am als lvn en a aml wth Ned u eautul Shalvah, wh s sheddn he ahd and ecmn a lttle kd ee u ees. We lve n Washntn, DC, whee n m spae tme i stud textle desn at the Ccan Schl and make custm chuppt. (Check ut m weste at www.nahannus.cm.)” Last ut nt least, aliZa thOMpsOn wtes that she and he husand ae “nw lvn n Washntn, DC. Ate nshn m
nephl (kdne) ellwshp, i tk a j at the Cente Du Evaluatn and reseach (pat the fd and Du Admnstatn). i lke the j and t’s nce havn me tme t spend wth m dauhtes, Mll and Eveln.” david pOnet wtes, “i eceved m PhD m Cluma Unvest n Pltcal Scence n 2006 and am cuentl the Head reseach at Pulc insht LP.” LP.” Aan, eat t hea m evene m u wndeul byfi ‘92 ea! best, Eljah.
1993 Collected by Jessica Radin He bnmanm! i was ateul ths pptunt t hea me aut all u and exchane an emal tw. i msel am stll n NyC wth m husand Smen wh s m Enland ut has een hee 14 eas. i have tauht at beacn, a pulc hh schl, the past 8 eas ut ths ea i am excted aut takn a ea t take classes, d sme wtn, and take cae sme aml aas. i cetanl want t ack t teachn ut t s nce t have a sht espte. i hpe t see u all smetme n the nea utue. allie alpeROvitCh i am lvn n NyC wth m husand, yu, and dauhte, dauhte, Emma. Emma s nw u and attends pe-K at ramaz. We ecentl nshed envatn u apatment and hpe t sta put a whle. Pessnall, i am an attne at rpes & ga. in m “spae” tme, i am a meme the byfi alumn advs ad (and encuae the alumn t et nvlved). i am als a ad meme Dakhe Nam (an ndependent mnan n the Uppe West Sde) and JofA (Jewsh othdx femnst Allance).
anxus at the same tme. i un when i can (i’m tn t e me dlent). i am wkn n wtn pjects -- th pet and a k pject wth tw ends aut ath, wk and lve. As i mve uthe nt m 30s eeln me at peace and alve than eve ee. avlana eisenbeRG i just mved t
n Nveme. Stephane s nw n matent leave ut cntnues t lve he wk n eal estate develpment law, specalzn n adale husn. We spent a wndeul Shaat ecentl wth Davd and rachel Mlne glles wh we see eulal n bstn; actuall, Davd and Stephane nw wk tethe. tethe.
Ann A whee i’m pusun aduate stud n chestal cnductn.
wayne JOnes f m pat, i’m cu-
dan fReeMan in Auust i etuned
t Lndn m Hn Kn, whee i spent the last ea, t take a new j n nvestment manaement. i’m tn despeatel t eak m tele hat mvn eve the ea! david M. GilleRs i am wkn as
a cmmecal eal estate lawe n the bstn ce gulstn & Sts, rachel s at the cnlct manaement m insht Patnes, and u 16-mnth ld yedda sad “i lve u” ecentl. ganted, t was t hs da cae end fauz, ut we’e stll pleased. We cntnue t actvel patcpate n “Mnan Tehllah,” Tehllah,” a shul we helped und whch was the happ ecpent a byfi Al umn Ventue fund ant seveal eas a. JOsh GOOdMan Snce Ma i have
een lvn n r de Jane, wtn aut pltcs and ecnmcs blme News. i have nt taken up sun utevle (t-vlleall) and must e the mst sun-depved pesn lvn n bazl. All the same, t’s exctn t watch up-clse hw bazl ccupes the vd let Ameca’s declnn ecnmc nluence n the wld. andy KatZMan i am lvn n San
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have happened snce we’ve last seen each the. i am maed and have a sn wh s aut t tun thee. We elcated t Jacksnvlle, fL aut a mnth a m NC and ae tn t sta d amdst all the stms. i wk as a pedatc anestheslst and am us wth m new j and leann the new lcatn. david bell i have een wkn as a
lawe n NyC, cusn n cpate law, electn law n vaus states n advance the 2008 electns and euee law t esettle iaqs wh have ecme taets n the wn cunt assstn the Amecans. Wk has een nteestn, at tmes taxn, and New yk alwas teaches me smethn new, ut i’m stll seachn what cmes next. KatheRine KatheRine eCKstein i lve n New yk Ct and wk at The Chlden’s Ad Scet dn educatn plc and advcac. i see Jessca radn and Davd bell equentl. i am hpeul aut the upcmn electn and ncedl
fancsc and ecentl tk a j at yah yah as Dect busness Manaement Cpate Patneshps. i am als ecentl enaed t anthe bnman alum, Saah Cwan (byfi ’97). N the news, thuh i uess that cunts as pett . yehuda KuRtZeR i have a lt up-
dates t shae; t’s een an extemel eventul ea. Aut 3 weeks a Stephane and i welcmed u secnd chld nt the wld, a tec lttle wh we named Jesse Mchael ives-Kutze. ives-Kutze. Nah s nw 2.5 and s ve delhted t e an lde the. We’e stll lvn n bklne, and i j ust stated m new pstn as a pess at bandes. i’ll e teachn cuses n Jewsh hst and pessnal leadeshp, and am wtn a k the next ew eas n “Jewsh mem.” i was awaded ths pstn ate wnnn an unusual cmpettn endwed Chales bnman n seach new deas the Jewsh cmmunt, and am extemel excted t actuall e wkn ate eas student-hd. i’m hpn t deend m dssetatn
entl dect peatns at oacle, the stwae cmpan, whee i have een nne eas. i lve n Alntn, VA wth m patne uteen eas, Ksta, and u ve sweet cat Anna. i am cuentl n the Alumn Advs bad byfi, whee i have the le Cha Technl and Cmmuncatns. i have als ecentl taken a pstn n the bad Dects the Caltn the Advancement Jewsh Educatn (CAJE). talia MilGROM-elCOtt Ths has
een a whlwnd a ew eas. in Ma 2007, Aan Dman and i t maed (ate a wndeul 15 mnths meetn and alln n l ve). Ths past Jul, we had a a, oen Mlm-Dman, and n Auust we came ut t San fancsc ve weeks amn, as u ends have taken t calln t. We’e lvn n a cute cttae n the Mssn and ae enjn the d le ee headn ack t New yk and wk n late Septeme. RaChel nussbauM i am stll lvn
n Seattle wth Nam Pank (byfi ‘90) and m dauhte yna, wh s tunn 1 ths mnth. Lke almst evene else n Seattle, i seem t have cauht stat-up eve, and tw eas a i launched a stat-up plualstc Jewsh cmmunt called the Kavana Cpeatve. Thns wth Kavana ae n eall well - t’s exctn and atn t e n a pstn whee i can thnk ceatvel aut the Jewsh utue. heatheR sOKOlOff i mved ack
t Mnteal, m hmetwn, tw eas a, t ve th t m dauhte Tala Tala rse bukhman, ate lvn n Tnt Tnt sx eas and wkn at the Natnal Pst, a Canadan dal, whee i cveed educatn, aml ssues and pvncal pltcs. Jac Wllam was n ths summe. i’ve een mstl dn the mm thn as well as wtn lestle eatues n un stu lke d the gle and Mal, the the natnal Canadan dal. i am lvn en ack n fench Canada, whee matent leave s exta-ln, dacae s susdzed and the wk da ends at 4pm. MiRiaM helleR steRn i am cuent-
l Dect Cuculum and reseach at the Amecan Jewsh Unvest’s Schl Educatn. i nshed m Ph.D. n educatn at Stand n 2007.
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San fancsc, whee i’ve een the last ten eas, wth m patne. Mchael Pale came t u cmmtment ceemn and ave an amazn dash n shul the uu. i’m cuentl n the thd ea a dctal pam n relus Studes at Stand, studn the andnus and tumtum (uhl cespndn t cntempa tansende and ntesex catees) n the Talmud. oh, and i Max nw. tanya tanya tRaKht t RaKht i lve n Manhattan
wth m husand Davd and m tw (almst thee) ea ld sn isaac. i am a lawe and pesentl wk at a law m called Deevse & Plmptn n the Uppe East Sde.
1994 Collected by Shira Fishman The bnman class 94 s dn well pessnall and pesnall. Thee wee lts exctn events t ept. A nume the 94 ellws wte updates m aad. Matti fRiedMan s cuentl lvn n Jeusalem whee he s a cespndent the Asscated Pess. Althuh he manl cves lcal news, he ecentl had the pptunt t ept m gea n the cnlct wth russa. He s maed t Naama and tethe the chase aund 16 mnth ld dentcal twns, Avv and Mchael. Judy bataliOn bataliOn lves n Lndn whee she s wtn and pemn. She ecentl t enaed t Jn Lhtman. Mazel tv t Jud and Jn. ilya ilya fi sChhOff sends hs eads m Kena whee he s dn l eldwk untl Nveme. Nveme. He s wkn n zea ehav and cnsevatn. He wtes, “t s nce t e ack watchn anmals n-pesn, and nt nl as numes n the cmpute. i had tten hw cute a waths ae.” He s dsappnted t e vtn asentee n the electns ut he ets hs electn news m the Kenans at the eld statn wh qute hm oama speeches. Ate he etuns m Kena, ila wll e lvn n Hamltn, onta (nea Tnt) and lkn a pstdctal ellwshp the next academc ea. Anne wh s n the aea s nvted t vst hm. Speakn Tnt, Tnt, JaCOb (diCKMan) sadiKMan wte n as well. He and hs we Samaa lve n Tnt Tnt wth the 16 mnth ld dauhte, yaa. The ae expectn a secnd chld n late Deceme. Deceme. Jac s stll wkn as an ene lawe at the law m osle, whee he has een the past u eas. Nw t the US…Althuh he lst tuch el wth byfi, Jed ROheR s ack n the lp. He epts that thns ae n well hm. Ate cllee he spent u eas as an Aud
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Ennee/Stae Manae/Pductn Manae a tun muscal theate pductns and enal ats estval. Ths s pehaps unsupsn the bnman fellw wh was neve a m hs uta. What mht e me supsn s that ate that he attended law schl and has settled dwn n Madsn Wi as a tax lawe. He maed Na, an actess he met dun hs tun eas, and the nw have a “lttle eall a 2 ea ld” named Stella. daRa hORn epts that he aml s dn well and wn. She and husand bendan Schulman have tw chlden, Maa, 3, and A, 16 mnths, and the ae expectn a thd chld n feua (Daa equests that i nset evl-ee dscuan dms hee). Ate an 8 ea stnt n New yk Ct, the ae mvn t New Jese ths wnte whee “u chlden wll n lne have t e accmpaned an adult n de t lk at a tee.” Daa nw has thee nvels, in the imae (Ntn, 2002), The Wld t Cme (Ntn, 2006) and All othe Nhts (Ntn, 2009) whch wll e avn ths Mach n kstes. The thd nvel s aut Jewsh spes dun the Amecan cvl wa wth man chaactes ased n hstcal ues. Daa eceved he PhD n Heew and yddsh lteatue m Havad n 2006 and althuh she was teachn at Saa Lawence Cllee she tells us that cuentl he ltea analss sklls ae manl used “ntepetn the pcaesque adventues Cuus gee.” aRiel adesniK shaed wth us the exctn news that he s ettn maed next ma n Washntn DC. Hs ancée Susanna has just eun the cnvesn pcess and amaznl, t has een a leann pcess Ael as well. When he sn’t studn Tah n pepaatn the cnvesn, Ael spends aut 60 hus a week as pat the McCan ’08 team. He spts a McCan ’08 kppah whch had t e puchased hs mthe ecause the campan des nt dstute elus paaphenala, as a as he knws. JOnathan bluth lves wth hs we Kathene n New yk. The welcmed the st chld, Jacksn, n feua and Jn stll can’t eleve he s alead 6 mnths ld. He sas, “he s the mst pecus thn we’ve eve seen.” When nt ln ve Jacksn, Jn s wkn at Cwen and Cmpan n health cae nvestment ankn and Kathene, n he “spae” tme, s ettn he MbA at NyU. fm bklne, MA, itia shMidMan rth wtes n t tell us aut he tw kds, Emma, 3, and Jshua, 1, w h keep the rth aml ve us. ita s stll lawen at gdwn Pct and Menachem, he husand, s stll stahtenn teeth (as a dentst). Als n bstn, RaChel GORdOn s lvn n Camde and wkn n he dctate n Amecan elus hst at Havad. He dssetatns aut
Pst WWii Amecan Judasm. david niR just celeated hs secnd weddn annvesa t Ma Cathene N (nee Campell) Cleveland, oH. The tw ae lvn n New yk yk Ct and pactcn law. Ma s n-huse cunsel a hede und and Davd des ntellectual ppet ltatn at a lae m. saRa Klein eisenbeRG just nshed a clekshp wth Justce Stevens n the Supeme Cut and mved t San fancsc whee she s ntevewn js. She t maed n Septeme 7th – mazel tv – and s cuentl hnemnn n Hawa tw lus weeks ee statn wk n octe Nveme. saRa sChwaRtZ ChRisMeR , he husand Nah, and dauhte Emma (ae 2) ae lvn ut the suuan deam n Lwe Men, PA. Saa just cmpleted he dctate at Havad’s gaduate Schl Educatn ths past spn. D. Schwatz Chsme s cuentl ntevewn pat-tme js n the eld educatnal plc, plc, eseach, and/ evaluatn. Nah s n hs nal ea a jnt pam at Penn’s Penn’s Desn Schl ( Mastes n Ct Plannn) and Whatn (MbA). Emma, wh was n n bstn, just ean he st ea pat-tme pe-schl at the JCC. She enjs eadn, talkn, snn, pantn, and eneall actn caz. Ate ve eas n DC, i, shiRa MilleR-JaCObs fishMan, mved t Wnnewd, PA ths summe whee m husand s a adl esdent at Alet Ensten Medcal Cente. i am nshn m PhD n pschl at the Unvest Maland and wtn m dssetatn n scal exclusn and attactn t test anzatns (n eld wk equed). We have a lttle l, ol, wh s ve mnths ld and keeps us smln all the tme. Snce mvn t Phll i have een ale t ecnnect wth Saa as u ls attend the same pe-schl! saRa MeiROwitZ mved t Jeusalem tw eas a (all 2006) n a Dt fellwshp, leavn ehnd Camde, MA, and the wld academc pulshn. She s eelance edtn, teachn and studn Jewsh texts, and spendn a whle lt tme dnkn cee n caes. She wuld lve t see the byfi alumn n isael. Alsa Mall let the West Cast and the pactce eal estate law and s nw am lvn n New yk wkn Tshman Spee. She’s stll dn lts tathlns and tn t e utsde as much as pssle. fnall, ut cetanl nt least, itaMaR MOses wte n an update. As expected, t s t unn t chane s n itama’s wds, hee s hs update: “i am lvn n bkln, wth m sx wves and eht-ve aes. N, wat, wth m ze wves and ze aes. And i’m wtn plas. M new pla, bACK bACK bACK, whch s aut steds n aseall, wll e m thd pla t appea -adwa, when t pens at Manhattan Theate Clu n
Nveme, Nveme, s i am ennn a ccle HgH and And t et n shape that. And then an evenn m sht plas stats a un at t he flea Theate, dwntwn, n feua. feua. Untunatel, ths wll mean nelectn all m aes and wves.”
1995 alyshea austeRn Thns ae n
eall well hee n bkln. The est news (and the knd that usuall es nt these updates) s that i’m ettn maed n Nveme. Nveme. Dan and i met n law schl and ae lvn n Cle Hll. in the “Small Wld” cate s the act that we wll e maed ra Pnet . . . Dan and Davd Pnet (bnman ‘92 ae clse ends m cllee). othewse, i’m stll wkn as a ltat n the Ct and spendn m ee tme n seach the deal chclate chp cke. lauRen CheRniCK i am lvn wth
m husand Aan fschman n the Uppe West Sde and am n the mddle m Pedatc Emeenc Medcne fellwshp at Cluma Pestean. CORey datZ-GReenbeRG i am
wkn as an anze wth UNiTE HErE Lcal 2, the Htel wkes unn n San fancsc. i was pevusl wth UNiTE HErE Lcal 19 n San Jse 4 eas. i als vluntee at the ga Men’s Men’s Health Cllectve as a vluntee medc. i am nt maed, n d i have kds. i d have 2 dchlden and ne nephew wh ae plan the pat the tme en. lisa exleR i just mved t Washn-
tn Hehts wth m aml, Ele and Matal (10 mnths), and wuld lve t have vsts! i’m stll wkn at Amecan Jewsh Wld Sevce n the educatn depatment. MiChael fRaZeR i am lvn n
Smevlle, MA. M we Cal and i ae expectn u st a an da nw. i’m empled as an Assstant Pess gvenment and Scal Studes at Havad Unvest. M st k, The Enlhtenment Smpath: Justce and the Mal Sentments n the Ehteenth Centu and Tda, s thcmn m oxd Unvest Pess. abRahaM levitan i am clsn n
apdl n m eht-ea annvesa en a Chcaan. Last ea, i unded a musc-teachn up, Pan Pwe, that peates n the Chca suus. Meanwhle, m and, ba Teeth, s n the pcess swelln t ve memes (ecessn? What ecessn?). fnall, i wll e man the lve m le, Laa Mash, n the summe 2009. We have a happ hme le wth u tw cats, Jasn Pestle and Luke Pe. Pe.
aRi lipMan i’m lvn n Clumus, oH, hme Wend’s, Aecme & ftch, Vcta’s Secet, Natnwde insuance (le cmes at u ast!), oh State Unvest tall, a maj leaue hcke team u have neve head , and und ze the 2008 pesdental electn. i’m unnn a nn-patsan nteath vte mlzatn anzatn (www.athvteclumus.), and n fda evenns i pla clanet at ne the thee rem snaues n twn. Even ate lvn and wkn hee tw eas i wuldn’t qute et call msel a Mdwestene -- m East Cast ts un a t t deep -- thuh what t’s wth i nw dve t an destnatn me than tw lcks awa. Melissa Mann i am lvn n bazl,
wtn lts, ckn lts, and penn an anc cee lune used wth an antques shp n an ld huse m the 1940’s.
seen Matthew rasc ‘96 n a eula ass. JiMMy davis Ate aduatn m
cllee, i lved n isael 3 eas, cmpletn smcha at yeshvat HaMvta (whee r’ Shmn felx mel tauht and r’ Av Wensten mel studed). Snce then, i etuned t Camde t attend Havad Medcal Schl and aduated medcal schl ths past June. Hweve, the est pat m pst-bnman eas, a, has een meetn Stephane gldlantz whle i was a medcal student and she a dental student. We maed 2.5 eas a. f nw, i am dn m nten ea at Tuts Tuts Medcal Cente, cntemplatn i wll head nt ntenal medcne sue. sue. Stephane s n he nal ea thdntcs esdenc. esdenc. We stll lve n Camde and welcme all vsts wh ma e happenn t pass n thuh. yOni enGelhaRt epts: Tala and i
nOaM MilGROM-elCOtt it has
een a ea. i tuned tht, t a j (assstant pess mden at hst at Cluma Unvest), almst cmpleted m dctate (m Pncetn), and am enaed t Jule Ehlch.
have mved t bklne, MA and u dauhte yaka tuns 18 mnths ths all. i’m ennn m st ea MbA at Havad. i ecentl jned the byfi alumn advs ad n the undasn and pjects cmmttee.
david salvay i am cuentl lvn n
dan GReenspahn Havn adu-
Chca and wkn t nsh m Ph.D. n Chemcal & blcal Enneen. M eseach cuses n the use snthetc plme-ased scalds as platms cell tansplantatn and ene delve wth a specal emphass n the le the exta-cellula mc envnment n medatn tansplanted panceatc slet cell suvval and unctn. Ate deendn m dssetatn late ths ea, i’ll etun t medcal schl and hpe t cmplete m M.D. md-2010, ate whch i plan t ente a sucal esdenc pam.
ated m gee Washntn Unvest Law Schl n Ma, i’m lvn n Washntn D.C. wth m we, Kaen beenthal, and stated clekn a jude n the U.S. Cut fedeal Clams n late Auust. i ecentl wte an atcle n a ht t an educatn and c-wte anthe n utsucn, th pulshed n law junals and avalale nlne at www.ssn.cm. in eal Auust, Kaen and i had the pleasue hkn and campn n natnal paks n Washntn, Mntana, and Wmn.
sOnya sChneideR maed he
adina GeRveR i let the Skall Cen-
Stand sweetheat, Stuat Naae, n 2004. The cuentl esde n Seattle, WA. Sna wked u eas at iNTiMAN Theate, and has snce let t pusue plawtn ull-tme. He pla, WAKE, was pduced n Apl 2008. She and Stuat ae expecn the st chld n octe.
te at the end Ma t stud ull-tme, st at yeshvat Hada n NyC, and nw at the Pades kllel n Jeusalem. M al the ea s t lean and wte-tw eal lves that i’ve aandned n ecent eas. The pessnal hme m wtn pjects wll e www. adnaeve.cm. (b the tme u et ths, t ma nall e cmpleted.) in the meantme, i am ennn wk as an Amecan Jewsh Wld Sevce Lsa glde Memal Wtes’ fellw. yu can susce t m wk and that m pees at www.ajws./pashah. i was als ve ated t eceve a byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant t en wk n be Hshech, a pject cused n the nteace etween tellah (pae) and mental health, especall depessn. M am s t launch ths pject as m wn, wth the al makn t cllaatve shtl. All n all, thns n m le ae ve d. i wuld lve t han ut wth an bn-lk wh nd themselves n Jeusalem.
MiChelle steRnthal i am cuentl
lvn n Smevlle, MA. i just nshed m PhD n Pulc Plc and Scl m the Unvest Mchan and am statn a pst-dc at Havad Schl Pulc Health.
1996 Collected by Mathhew Rascoff adaM ChRistian i am nw happl
maed t Jhn Vltu. We ted the knt ths summe n Ls Aneles. i am cuentl nshn up m uan plannn pam at Havad and wll e dne n June next ea. Hee n Camde, i have the pleasue
aROn GOetZl i aduated m law
sheila naZaRian i have een
schl n 06 and have een n New oleans clekn tw edeal judes snce then. i wll e ettn maed n Nveme. Nveme. These last tw eas i have ascall lved the le that Adam Manus shuld have lved n hs hmetwn he hadn’t aandned t eene pastues n Washntn.
maed t fadad Mn, neusuen, 3 eas tmw! i have a 13 mnth ld dauhte named Lela and am penant wth a a due Hallween. i have nshed eneal sue, sue, and i am takn tw eas canacal eseach at Chlden’s Chlden’s Hsptal Ls Aneles ee statn 3 eas plastc sue at USC. Als, i am appln t USC’s Mashall Schl busness a Mastes n Medcal Manaement.
susanna GOldfinGeR i lve n
bkln and wk n advetsn whch s nt eall as lamus as t lks n the mves ut stll a lt un. in m ee tme i swm wth a maste’s team, salsa, wte sht stes, and t t escape the ct--i ecentl etuned m a hkn tp n the italan alps. M avte actvt all s umpn nt bnmanm, and i am happ t ept ths happens al ten. i am lkn wad t u next athen... tali GRiffel i am lvn utsde
Haa wth m ‘chusand’ Mtch, u spectacula dauhte Shakked, wh just dscveed the pleasues sld d, and u Canaante hund yupa. i’m nshn m last ea Phscal Theap at Haa U ht nw. We lve uests!
sOphie ObeRfield i can sa that
ate u eas teachn, Enlsh and Envnmental Studes at the Hh Schl Envnmental Studes (NyC pulc schl), i have mved t Stuvesant Hh Schl (NyC pulc manet schl, alma mate man bnmanm, the est NyC pulc schl i dd nt attend). i’m teachn nnth and tenth ade Enlsh, and i’m ve excted aut the mve. Als, i’m wkn pat-tme n an MA n Theate at Hunte Cllee. i’m wkn n a pape aut tw plas that alleze pltcal cnlcts usn mantc elatnshps, ne whch endes the isael-Palestnan cnlct n supsn was.
aRiel GROveMan weineR What
can i sa? i am us en a mm t ilan, 3.5 eas ld, and t yael, 11 mnths ld. i am stll wkn at The Samuel bnman fundatn and lvn n NyC. MaRisa haRfORd i maed russ A-
den, a pltcal and la anze, n Septeme 2, 2007, and we ae lvn n the bnx. (byfi ‘96 was epesented at the weddn Adna geve and Mae Klen.) Ate seven eas teachn and wkn as a pessnal develpe the NyC pulc schls, i have accepted a j as the Pam Dect a new teache pepaatn pam, the Uan Teache resdenc. The Uan Teache resdenc ams t nteate aduate cusewk wth a schl esdenc t suppt the develpment pcent, electve, and clleal teaches. i anne s nteested n ecmn a teache n NyC ( knws anne wh s), cntact me and i wll e excted t desce the pam n me detal. MaRGie Klein Le s d hee n
bstn. i’m takn a leave asence the semeste m Heew Cllee ancal schl n de t dect the rhteus indnatn Pject, whch s anzn Jewsh cmmuntes t vce scal justce and envnmental ssues as elus cmmunt ptes n the ‘08 electn. The pject s elated t an anthl i c-edted called rhteus indnatn: A Jewsh Call Justce (Jewsh Lhts). in addtn, i am stll lvn n the Mshe/Kavd Huse, whch s the hu an amazn cmmunt ceatve and tkkun lam ented Jews.
Matthew RasCOff i am lvn
n bstn, whee i ecentl stated m secnd ea at Havad busness Schl. Just ths atenn i had the pleasue havn lunch w th yn Enelhat, wh just stated hs st ea hee. i spend m ee tme dn lettepess pntn at the bw & Aw Pess n the asement ne the undeaduate huses, and helpn t lead the Scal Entepse Clu at HbS. i had a macal Jul and Auust, ntenn the gle bk Seach pject n Muntan Vew and lvn n the paadse that s San fancsc, whee i spent man lvel hus wth bnmanm Saah Cwan (byfi ’97), ruth Kaplan (byfi ’95), And Katzman (byfi ’93), yaac Dweck (byfi ’95) wh was vstn m the East Cast, and thes. Please lk me up have plans t e n the bstn aea. MiChal sChaRlin i just mved t
NyC m Jeusalem and am enjn en clse t aml and ends. Whle a lttle vewhelmed the ct’s “muchness”, i’m excted t wk n ths pschtheap metpls, expln endless ptns uthe tann.
MiRiaM sheinbein i had a a n
the end Deceme, 2007. i aduated m medcal schl n Ma. M husand (yan) and i mved t San fancsc whee i stated m esdenc n aml medcne. dan sMOKleR i am lvn n New yk, yk, wkn as the Educatnal Dect Hllel intenatnal’s E3 pject. i’m ased at NyU. but mst
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1997 Collected by Zina Miller i’m pud t ept that the ‘97es ae up t the usual mpessve tcks. ove the past cuple eas, we’ve had seveal maaes, thee aes (althuh, t e a, thse wee all n ne aml), as daned, lawes admtted t the a, dcumentaes lmed, scandals epted…. Well, we’e a us unch. JOnathan GRibetZ s cuentl lvn wth hs we Sat n Pncetn, whee Sat s ennn he secnd ea a Ph.D. n elns late antqut. Jnathan cntnues t wte hs dssetatn, tentatvel ttled “Muslms, Chstans, and Jews n the ‘Aa-Znst’ Encunte: A Stud Mutual Peceptns n Late ottman Palestne”, and teaches mden Jewsh hst Heew Cllee’s Cllee’s Me’ah Pam. Jnathan has just een jned n Pncetn david wOlKenfeld, hs we Saa, the sn Nam, and new avals n the m cute twn s. Davd was daned n June as a a yeshvat Chveve Tah (yCT), and he and Saa have eun wk as dects the Jewsh Leann intatve at Pncetn Unvest, a patneshp etween the othdx Unn, Hllel, and Tah m’Tzn. And as we ddn’t alead knw what d taste yCT has n students, the als ast steven exleR, wh wll e daned cme June. Steven sas that he had a “wndeul summe j” teachn at yeshva Hada n Manhattan and s nw wkn as Asscate ra the Heew insttute rvedale—“a wndeul j n a wndeul cmmunt”. in hs spae tme, Steven hans ut wth hs nece Matal (dauhte Lsa ’ 95 and Ele Kaune). A ew mnths a, Steven had the pleasue attendn elisheva Glass’ weddn t Cnan yuan, whch was Elsheva’s update as well, cuse. She enjed the sheva acht anzed beCKy vOORwinde , wh has jned the byfi pessnal team as Dect Alumn Enaement. Ate seveal eas wkn the accuntn m Enst & yun n the Cpate respnslt up, beck s enjn “ettn t knw all the byfi alums ut thee and wn n m undestandn the ssues acn the Jewsh cmmunt tda and what we can d t make a deence.” beck lves n bkln wth husand Mchael Vwnde, a cvl ennee wkn n the desn the 2nd Avenue Suwa n New yk Ct. Unsupsnl, t tuns ut qute a ew the ‘97es ae n New yk these das (what, Jews n New yk?!), ncludn alisOn hORnstein , wh s enten he secnd ea as a ltatn asscate n the New yk ce Smpsn, Thache & batlett. Alsn wte t sa she s “delhted t ept that i t maed
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n octe 2007” t Andew Kss and that “maed le has een ttall wndeul s a”. Anthe lntme New yke (althuh stll astn that amed suthen cham), anya KaMenetZ, cntnues t ve talks and make meda appeaances n cnnectn wth he k geneatn Det. in addtn t cven the sustanale ecnm as a sta wte fast Cmpan maazne, Ana ecentl celeated he secnd weddn annvesa. And lest u thnk Ana has cneed u ea’s ea’s maket n junalsm, isaaC dOveRe s the undn edt tw mnthl pltcal maaznes cused n New yk yk Pltcs, Ct Hall and The Captl. isaac lves wth hs lend Saah a cl “seven lcks m the apatment whee i ew up” and has had an exctn ea cven evethn m Hlla and rud t “Elltt Sptze’s psttutes, the udet css, seveal smalle sex scandals, and a cuple ncuments lsn pmaes”. He’s a us man. fnall mvn utsde New yk, yk, we nd me 1997es scatteed aund the cunt. dOnya Khalili aduated m the Unvest Pennslvana Law Schl and cuentl lves n Phladelpha whle she wks as a law clek the Hnale Thmas o’Nell the U.S. Dstct Cut the Easten Dstct Pennslvana. She als seves n the Amecan Cnsttutn Scet bad Dects. saRah COwan, a aduate student n a PhD pam n Demaph and Scl at UC – bekele, lves n San fancsc and wll ma And Katzman (byfi ’93) n Ma. Saah tells us that he pam means she “uses statstcs t stud hw and wh ppulatns chane.” She als extended an nvtatn t anne wh wuld lke t cme vst he n San fancsc. Als n the West Cast s dan MintZ , wh s dn standup cmed and wtn a plt NbC whle lvn n Ls Aneles—althuh vstn New yk yk t see hs l end. A lttle athe aeld, taylOR taylOR KRauss s stll n rwanda wkn n Vces rwanda, an Ngo he unded t ecd and peseve testmnes rwandan encde suvvs. He epts that: “Sme mht thnk i’m maned n rwanda, ut when i un nt ends and celetes n the steet t tends t eel me lke bkln than i aaned . i’m cntnun wk wth Vor, ut t keep msel alat i pck up eelance shtn js. Sme the pjects i’ve had a chance t sht ecentl nclude peces NoW n anchse hsptal clncs n rwanda, and wmen n rwandan palament; cven the hc stes sexual vlence n Cn Eve Ensle’s Vda; and ths week’s celet vstatn t n attentn t (rED)’s wk wth The glal fund. i anne wants t vst please let me knw, rwanda has an pen d plc, especall
u’e Chnese. i’m nt kddn. The have plans t stat teachn Mandan n ne the Unvestes.” Meantme, tOva seRKin has just maked u eas lvn n isael and was maed n Mach t ya yehuda, yehuda, “an amaznl knd, smat, unn man”. She s the executve dect KlD - a lal netwk Jewsh leades and actvsts (wte t he me nmatn). She explans that “When i’m nt dn the ‘Peplehd thn’, i t t nd tme t ake, hke, watch ad isael ealt TV (nl t have smethn t mck), and pla cmpettve Scale.” based n Canada, eli bataliOn has tued the wld as ne the tw stas the Sale & bataln pemn du and just t hs MbA. A nd speakn ck stas (metaphcal and lteal), the last ve eas, dan edinbeRG has tued ntenatnall ull-tme as assst the nde-ck and Zx. Zx has nall called t a quts, s Dan wll mve t NyC n octe t pusue lm/TV/cmmecal scn pptuntes and t cntnue wkn as a eelance ass plae wth ups n and ut the New yk yk aea. As t u athul epte, i ( Zina MilleR ) nall nshed m JD/MA, maculusl passed the New yk a, a, and pmptl led the cunt. i’ve just etuned m a dcult and ascnatn ea n isael/Palestne wkn as a Vstn reseache at the Mneva Cente Human rhts at Heew Unvest and am nw a Vstn fellw at the Watsn insttute intenatnal Studes at bwn Unvest n Pvdence, ri. Whch just means: appaentl i enj vstn places.
1998 asheR auel i am n m 5th and nal
ea the Ph.D. pam n Mathematcs at the Unvest Pennslvana. i’m appln pst-dcs and the academc js the upcmn ea. i just nshed a pductve summe eseach sta n Mancheste and bdeaux, and i’m ack n Phladelpha. saRah d. belleR Ate studn
Aac and taveln n Ept tw mnths ths summe, i am statn the secnd ea m mastes at Amecan Unvest n Washntn, DC. M thess eseach s n evaluatn and est pactces ats-ased cnlct eslutn ntatves. i’m stll enjn le n DC and tn t et n as much kn, dancn, and musc-makn as pssle. shelli faRhadian i am n m th ea a cmned MD-PhD pam n NyC. M clncal nteest s nectus dsease, and m eseach cuses n nsect ehav. ehav. niCK fitCh i am n m secnd ea
an At Hst PhD at Cluma. ellie GettinGeR i am the Educat
the Jewsh Museum Mlwaukee,
whch pened n Apl 2008. The Museum lks at Amecan Jewsh hst thuh the lens the Mlwaukee cmmunt. saRah KRainin i just aduated m
CalAts wth an MfA n scenc desn, and am cntnun m eelance caee n th New yk and L.A. as a set desne theate, and pductn desne lm. i have als stated develpn sme lae-scale, nteactve sculptues and nstallatns that deal wth space and scale and landscape, and ae ased n m pevus wk n ject theate and puppet. eMMa Kippley-OGMan i have
nshed m uth ea ancal schl at Heew Cllee n bstn. fllwn a summe tul enchn hsptal chaplanc wk at the bham and Wmen’s Hsptal, i am takn a ea m schl t wk wth beakn the Slence n Jeusalem n a scal justce ellwshp m the New isael fund. aRi weisbaRd Ate aduatn m law schl at yale ths past Ma, i spent the summe mpn aund New yk, whee i an nt rachel Kt ‘98 twce n bkln, nce wth he husand n tw. Then, ate seen Emma Kpple-oman ‘98 and Saah belle ‘98 at the Natnal Havuah insttute and m ends’ weddn n bstn (Emma cated!), i mved ut t Phenx, AZ. i’ll e clekn hee Nnth Ccut Cut Appeals Jude Mchael Dal Hawkns. it’s shapn up t e a wndeul ea, ut thee ae pecus ew bnmanm ut hee, s u’e lkn a hme ase n dvn dstance m the gand Cann, Las Veas, Sedna, pehaps the atst/hpp cln bsee, AZ, dn’t e aad t lk me up. JOshua wnuK Stll wkn n
m dctate n chemst at Jhns Hpkns Unvest. M eseach tpc s electn and n eam nduced depstn pcesses. i maed m we, Danca Hell-Wnuk, n Septeme 1st, 2008, at b’na isael Cneatn n baltme, MD. We met n j-date tw eas a. Danca s wkn n he dctate n Cellula and Mlecula Medcne at Jhns Hpkns Unvest as well. buht m st huse and just nshed spendn the past ea emdeln. Mved n thee weeks ee the weddn. Cuentl pepan t pesent m eseach at talks n bstn and elsewhee ths fall wth the hpes nshn m deee next summe.
1999 Collected by Rachel Ann Burstein Wth almst a decade ne snce u bnman summe, the class 1999 s lun a acss the cunt and the wld. annie ROsenZweiG
wns the awad the uthest m the States amn thse wh espnded t m plea class ntes sumssns. She epts that she wll e n iaq the next ve mnths, wkn n the upcmn electns and n cvc enaement pams as pat an emedded Pvncal recnstuctn Team Team n fallujah ct dstct. Ate that, u’ll e ale t nd Anne n Washntn, ack at the Pentan. RebeKah haRt lves n Mnteal wth he husand ne ea, gl-ad Aama. gl-ad has ecme a pessnal ead-ake and reekah s studn Hakm (mndulness-ased, dcented pschtheap). She cdnates a assts wkshp/speake sees called the Eath Dalue, and teaches wkshps n deep ecl -- helpn peple uncve the sense pwe t take pat n the healn u wld. She’s als appln t d a MA pam n smatc pschl dama theap next ea. hannah saRvasy and elina seGal ae th lvn n the West Cast. Hannah just t ack m Sea Lene whee she was pat a eseach team dcumentn endaneed lanuaes n castal shn vllaes. When at hme wth he husand n Alameda, Hannah wks as a catnst. yu can see sme he w k at www.hannahsavas.cm. vas.cm. Elna s als happl maed and spends man happ evenns cuddled up next t he husand n the Ls Aneles hme. Elna wks a eal estate develpe, whee she enjs wean he had hat. Mvn east acss the cntnent, aaROn ORKin s lvn n Thunde ba, onta, cmpletn a medcal esdenc n ual aml medcne. When he’s nt wkn, Aan enjs canen and s cnsden emakn n uthe studes n the hst and phlsph medcne and pulc health. The next uthest east bnman cntnent wh sent me eples s n New yk. JOsh fOeR s lvn n bkln wth hs we Dnah, and cntnun t wte Natnal geaphc, Esque, and the maaznes. Lk hs st k, aut the scence mem, mem, t e pulshed Penun Pess next ea. Matthew GOldbeRG s als n New yk and takn a ea m hs uth ea medcal schl t undetake melanma cance l eseach at Munt Sna Schl Medcne. He ecentl stated ad kn and tn hs hand at luten ee ckn. JOsh platt lves a uptwn n Manhattan and wks at the butle La at Cluma Unvest n addtn t takn sme classes. He s ltn w th enten Cluma’s MfA ctn pam next ea. ea. eRin sChaRff s statn he st ea law schl at New yk Unvest and lvn n bkln ate an eventul summe n the oama campan n iwa. Lz Klsten and En ae n the same sectn and pulc nteest
pam at NyU law schl whee Lz has a rt Tlden Ken D’Astn fellwshp n Wmen’s & Chlden’s Advcac. vcac. As Lz epts, “we’e keepn the bnman lve alve dwntwn.” She cmpleted a antastc 14 mnths aad, as a fellw at the Auschwtz Jewsh Cente n oswecm, Pland, a Dt fellw n Jeusalem, isael, and a ackpacke n Cental Ameca. Lz, En and RaChael waGneR ae all memes byfi’s alumn advs ad. rachael s helpn pen Ln Captal’s st New yk ce and s pleased t ept that the ce nw has desks, cmputes and chas! on tme ee statn he new j, rachael went t the bejn olmpcs whee she ecame an accmplshed spectat, spectat, nt an olmpc cntende hesel. in he ae spae tme, rachael s helpn n he mm’s mm’s campan the leutenant ven n Vna. (The campan weste can e und at www.jdva.cm.) The byfi ’99 bstn cew appaches the New yk up n sze. JOseph beRMan just mved t Jamaca Plan whee he’s een enjn een spaces nea, nea, akn ead and eadn antas and kds’ ks. Wth summe ve, he’s he’s statn up wth hs uth ea ancal schl at Heew Cllee and pepan hs st amm nam at the ottawa recnstuctnst Havuah. When he’s he’s nt studn and leann, Jseph s nvlved n uldn Jewsh-Muslm elatns n the bstn cmmunt. lev nelsOn s als at Heew Cllee, ennn ancal schl as a Wexne fellw. bth Jseph and Lev ae excted t e n eunted wth shaROn COhen anisfeld wh nw seves as Dean the rancal Schl at Heew Cllee. Ate a thee ea stnt cnsultn at McKnse and Cmpan, Cmpan, shiRa siMOn s als n bstn, pusun a jnt MD/MbA deee at Havad Unvest. She s lvn n he ld cllee dm Leveett, ut ths tme as a resdent Tut. Judd KessleR s dn a PhD n busness Ecnmcs at Havad Unvest. He studes wke mtvatn and et. He ecentl stated lvn pat tme n Ls Aneles, CA whee he s cnductn dssetatn eseach at a small ntenet stat-up. susan pultMan just mved m New yk t Phladelpha, n de t pusue an MSW and an M.Ed n Human Sexualt at W dene Unvest. He al s t ecme a sex theapst, thuh she stll deams penn a juce a/cae. When nt at schl, Susan s the Dect Pammn and Maketn at The Cllaatve, a scal up Jewsh peple n the 20’s and 30’s. She’d “lve t e n tuch wth an bnmanm n Phll!” As me, i’m lvn n bkln (whee en a red Sx an s a t lnel) wth m ancé, Jeem. i’m wkn n a PhD n Amecan Hst at the Ct Unvest New
yk gaduate Cente and teachn tw sectns wld hst at bkln Cllee. invtatns ae ut anne wh wants t delve a uest lectue!
2000 david COhen i am attendn the
Pstaccalaueate Pemedcal pam at bn Maw Cllee, studn scence and pepan t appl t medcal schl. hannah faRbeR i mved t
bekele n Auust t en a PhD n Amecan hst. i’m stll ln at jspt.. yaKOv fRydMan-KOhl Lvn n
Jeusalem and studn law and phlsph at Heew Unvest. Exchane student at geetwn Law n Washntn DC the all ‘08 semeste. MiChael GensheiMeR i am cuent-
l takn a eak m medcal schl at Vandelt t d adatn ncl eseach n bstn a ea. danny GReene i am nw lvn n
San fancsc, wkn Cuent, a lal televsn netwk and scal news weste unded Al ge. i als ecentl dscveed a thd place t call hme (the than the place whee i ew up and isael): black rck Ct. anat Maytal i wll e aduatn
ths ea m bstn Unvest Schl Law wth m J.D., Cncentatn n Ltatn and Dspute reslutn. i plan t mve ack t New yk Ct t wk as an Assstant Dst ct Attne. aliCe phillips i am n the uth
ea the phlsph Ph.D. pam at Cnell and wll pal nsh n 2010; m dssetatn s n the le sel-sucenc n the Stc cnceptn happness. And m end (wh was ntduced t me, ncdentall, Mchael gensheme) and i ae plannn t et maed next ea, ate hs cnvesn t Judasm s cmplete. liba Rubenstein and MiCah fitZeRMan-blue We just nshed
ea tw n u Ls Aneles adventue. Mcah s sln thuh hs st eatue sceenpla assnment, and hs pductn cmpan, cmpan, 5432 flms, just wapped up a new we sees. La stll uns the nn-pt and pltcal pammn n MSpace - wth a tent actvt aund the electn. A ltte vacatn s ln vedue.
a cmnal justce em Ngo. i’m “advcatn” (exact j descptn n pcess) t mpve dschae plannn mentall ll endes leavn psn (e.., enllment n Medcad, dsalt enets, tanstnal husn). Ate nshn at bwn n 2006, i wked a medcal schl ethcs depatment n Sacuse, Ny and tuted a gED class at a nea psn. Ths past summe, i nduled msel wth a hednstc (ut lw-udet) tek thuh sx cuntes n Suthen Aca. elisabeth COhen epts: Waen
Tusk and i wee maed ths summe. We’ll e lvn n Phladelpha the next ea, whle Waen nshes up law schl. i’ve nshed m cusewk at Pncetn, and n the next ea hpe t pass m eneal examnatns and en wk n m dssetatn. i’m stll studn medeval Aac pet, wth secnda nteests n medeval Heew pet and mden Aac pet. Melissa KORn i have een n New yk Ct a lttle ve tw eas nw, st ad schl (Cluma Junalsm) and nw wkn as a cp edt wth Dw Jnes Newswes. i wte headlnes n maket-mvn equtes news and wte eatues aut the ntesectn usness and educatn (student lans, -pt cllees, phlanthp, etc.); dentel an exctn tme t e a usness epte. bus wth ends, aml, and a lttle eelancn...le’s d. RaChel lauteR i have een wkn the Ct New yk yk the past tw eas, mst ecentl as the Sen Plc Advs t the Cmmssne the Dept Small busness Sevces. in m ee tme, i was ne the pma anzes bkln baack, the assts anzatn the oama campan n bkln. i als unded a new pltcal anzatn n bkln, called New Kns Demcats whch ecuts and helps peple un lcal elected ce. Check ut u weste: www.newknsdemcats.cm. And nall, i just stated at Havad Law Schl - i’m sad t leave New yk (tempal), ut excted the new adventue. nOaM lOCKshin i am enaed t
Etta Aamsn Tnt, whm i met at yk Unvest. Ate aduatn m yk wth a deee n math n 2007, i mved t New yk whee i am wkn at Sand bensten as a eseach asscate n the l and as up.
eRiC tRaGeR i maed Alssa Saun-
des n Ma 25th, and we lve n Phladelpha. i am a PhD gaduate Student n Pltcal Scence at the Unvest Pennslvana.
2001 Collected by Ben Magarik eli bRaun i am wkn n Cncnnat
the oh Justce & Plc Cente,
ben MaGaRiK i have een wkn Dtal Dvde Data, a nn-pt that uses a usness mdel t eak the ccle pvet n Sutheast Asa. i spend tw-thds the ea lvn n the East Vllae ( Ny), and the the thd n Camda and Las. Le n Camda s a pett wld de,
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cuentl n ellwshps at oxd Unvest, whee she s cmpletn he dctate n the hst cance. She lks wad t etunn t Havad he M.D. deee. ynna ynna s especall nteested n ntenatnal health wk, and cntnues t e thankul t bnman the man lessns that she leaned aut lal cpeatn.
bandes last ea (and msses t a lt!). She spent the summe taveln, ncludn stan a thht tp. She just mved t NyC and stated a dctal pam n schl pschl at St. Jhn’s Unvest. anya ManninG s cuentl lvn
n bkln and wkn as an insht fellw. She wll wk n thee deent New yk Ct Jewsh nn pts ve the cuse tw eas.
GabRiel ROsenhOuse i am lvn
saRah MaRCus cuentl lves n DC
n Chca, enten m thd ea as aduate student n the Cmmttee n Neul at the Unvest Chca. M eseach s, eneall speakn, aut hw neuns exchane nmatn - “snaptc tansmssn” n the jan the eld. Me speccall (and jan-), i’m studn the mlecula mechansms vescle usn at the cell suace memane. i hpe t have a pape ut wthn the next ea.
and wks The isael Pject. She just etuned m the repulcan and Demcatc Natnal Cnventn.
adaM sChwaRtZ i just etuned m
a summe pulc health eseach n ual inda t en m secnd ea medcal schl n New yk. alex sheRMan i am n bstn,
wkn n achtectue hh-end esdental desn, wkn twads m Pessnal Accedtatn n Leadeshp n Ene and Envnmental Desn and cmpletn the AiA’s inten Develpment Pam. on the sde, i enj dn m ke, unnn, ck clmn, vlunteen the Massachusetts anch the US geen buldn Cuncl, eelance aphc desn wk, spadc catnn, and desn cmpettns.
hannah Mayne s lvn n Canada,
un ut the next step. naaMah paley ecentl aduated
m the Unvest Mchan Hns Cllee and s nw spendn he ea n a Dt fellwshp n isael. Ate studn u eas Aac n Mchan, Jeusalem and Ca, she s nw wkn n and studn ssues Aa and Aac educatn n isael. yOni pOMeRanZ i am studn n
Jeusalem ths ea at the Cnsevatve yeshva and ennn a M.A. at Heew Unvest. niCK RenneR aduated m Duke
and spent last ea studn Heew at Ulpan Akva n scenc, sunn Netana, n pepaatn statn ancal schl at the recnstuctnst rancal Cllee, n the Phladelpha aea. He s cuentl lvn n Phladelpha and has eun hs st ea at rrC.
2003 Collected by Anna Hutt Fredman inessa ayZenbeRG aduated m
basn Cllee ths ea and mved ack t Mscw, russa. She s wkn renassance Captal n Mscw. ben bOKseR Ate thee eas at yale
studn Ethcs, Pltcs, and Ecnmcs, ben bkse s takn a semeste t patcpate n Tevel ’Tzedek, a Jewsh/isael stud and vlunteen pam n Nepal. The pam’s cus s n scal and envnmental justce / sustanale develpment. He plans t etun t yale a nal semeste atewads and aduate n the spn.
alana KinaRsKy i have aduated
mved t Davs, CA, whee he s wkn Envnment Calna, tn t et the state t amend the natn’s st statewde and ndust-wde cap n lal wamn. He s cnsden pusun a PhD n Envnmental Plc. RaChel fiRestOne aduated m
david baCK s tn t stat a clean
JaClyn Rubin spent last ea
ene cmpan. cmpan. He ecentl mved t Washntn DC.
studn at Dsha and ths ea s wkn ull tme Mechn Hada, an ealtaan eshva whch pvdes esuces ndependent mnanm. Hada has een the ecpent seveal byfi Alumn Ventue fund ants. JaCOb stOil just nshed a eseach
elisha fRedMan s cuentl pusu-
sandRa di Capua s lvn n Wash-
ntn, DC, whee she wks Jan Nathan, a ckk auth and d junalst. in addtn, she wtes estauant evews and des eelance cnsultn a nuttnal cnsultn m. Kate fROMMeR s n he secnd ea
a dctal pam n Schl and Chld Clncal Pschl at yeshva Unvest. She s cuentl ntenn at a pvate schl n the ct, wkn wth 3-10 ea lds. abby fRiedMan s lvn n bstn
and wkn at the Havad Pulc Health Schl dn lal health eseach.
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ellwshp n Zae, bata wth the Catan Mnst Deence. He als vlunteeed as a cant at ne the lcal snaues. He s cuentl lvn n Lndn. alana weiss s enjn San fan-
csc le and wkn n Leann and Leadeshp Develpment at gle. She t t have lunch wth anthe bnman alum, Matthew rasc (byfi ’96), man tmes ths summe!
peteR GanOnG s statn hs last
JOnathOn feinbeRG ecentl
neRissa ClaRKe just aduated m
Pncetn n June 2007, i’ve een lvn n New yk Ct and wkn as a Manaement Cnsultn Accentue.
ben aMsteR snce aduatn m
aduated m bandes Unvest, whee she studed Pschl, Heew, and a t Aac. She has eun a maste’s pam n speechlanuae pathl at the Massachusetts geneal Hsptal (MgH) insttute Health Pessns.
bnhamtn Unvest wth a maj n intenatnal Develpment and mns n Ecnmcs and busness. She s nw lvn n NyC, wkn ths cmn ea at the Samuel bnman fundatn, as the fundatn’s fellw.
leah bReslOw Ate u eas havn a at lvn n isael, Leah beslw decded t was tme t head ack t Canada t nsh he b.A. at yk yk Unvest. She’s lkn wad t cmpletn he b.A. n Humantes, especall snce t wll e tauht n Enlsh!
Whtman Cllee n Walla Walla, Washntn n Ma 2008 wth a deee n Pltcs. She nw lves n Washntn, DC and wks at The A spen insttute, a DC ased thnk tank, n the Ene and Envnment Pam.
Kate ROsenbeRG aduated m
anna hutt fRedMan ecentl
ea at Havad, cncentatn n ecnmcs and math and hpn t d a thess n ethe educatn cme. He spent the past summe dn develpment eseach n Chenna, inda. At the end the summe, he and ben bkse ’03 taveled aund Keala, whee the wee the nnth and tenth men Shaat sevces at a 300-ea-ld snaue n Kch. The head the snaue tld them all aut the shul’s shul’s hst, cmplete wth cwns the Se Tah ven mahaajas n the 1800s, and the leaned aut the Jewsh cmmunt n inda n eneal. Leah Jdan i aduated ths past Ma m the Unvest Kansas wth a bA n Enlsh and mns n Hst and fench. i’ve just stated m st ea ve n Heew Unn Cllee’s Cllee’s ancal pam. i’m eall lkn wad t ths st ea n Jeusalem and then t the u eas ate that ack n the States!
Weslean n Ma and s excted t e taveln t inda, whee she wll e statn t wk wth Ujjvan, an indanun gameen-ased mcnance nsttutn n banale. She has wanted t etun t inda t d scal justceased sustanale develpment wk snce he jun ea aad n Vaanas, inda. At Ujjvan, she wll e manan and mplementn scal pams t aln wth lans, such as pulc health semnas, entepeneual tann, cmmuncatn sklls tann, and Hnd and Enlsh teachn. She s als hpn t cnnect wth the Jewsh cmmunt Kchn, inda.
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talya KaGedan aduated m
n a dule-maj n Pschl and Neuscence at bandes Unvest. He ecentl nshed a summe vluntee expeence wth the Depatment Mental Health Massachusetts un adults wth schzphena. Ths ea he s sevn as ne twelve unvest rsevelt fellws (academc advss t undeclassmen), wkn n a neuscence eseach la, and leadn a weekl student chavua (stud up) aut Nevm rshnm, the Eal Pphets.
m Lla Unvest Chca wth a deee n intenatnal relatns. Nw i am lkn emplment eat expeences aad. in the mean tme, i lve n Chca and enj the das! hannah sufRin Ate spendn the
summe llwn m cllee aduatn studn Mandan n bejn, i am nw settln nt and expln m hme the next tw eas, guanzhu. As a yale-Chna Teachn Teachn fellw, i am teachn cuses n amus Amecan ats and Electn 2008 at Sun yat-sen Unvest. nathan stall i just aduated m
Mcgll ths past spn (‘08) wth a b.Sc. n phsl. i spent ths past summe wkn wth AJWS n ghana n the vluntee summe pam. i just stated medcal schl at the Unvest Westen onta (UWo)
2004 Collected by Hannah Kapnik danny COhen fu eas n m
bnman, ate spendn a ap ea as pat the halutzm wh unded the bnman bat- a ea lvn n Jeusalem wth bnman cheve, lled wth leann, vlunteen, Heew, isaels, explatn and wth- i am nw ack n isael, spendn a semeste cntnun the cultvatn m (elus) dentt at yeshvat Maale gla, a ascnatn and clul place, chaactezed a wndeul cmnatn wamth, penness,
ntenst, and senstvt. At the end the semeste, i’ll etun t m elved Unvest Pennslvana, whee i’ve spent the past tw eas meetn peple, leann, expln, and wn. i’m ve nvlved n Jewsh l e thee, als n the pmtn Academcall based Cmmunt Sevce, n the cultvatn a cade scall-ented usness students, and n ettn t knw all knds peple. i al s spent last summe undn a pject wth a end called LendfPeace., an nlne ste whch allws u t lend dectl t Palestnan mc-entepeneus t help acltate the ecnmc stalt needed peace. in the lne tem utue i hpe t spend sme tme cnsultn n the scal sect n isael, thuh m ultmate passn and aspatn s t wk n educatn, thuh sme cmnatn the wlds Judasm and pstve pschl. i lk ack at bnman as a hue catalst n m le, eve ateul the pptuntes, wlds, and elatnshps t whch t’s pened me. benJaMin epstein i am n m jun ea at MiT studn blcal Enneen, and have spent the past tw summes at the Ma Clnc n rcheste, rcheste, MN dn eseach elated t mmunl and multple scless. david Zvi epstein i just mved
ack t Tnt t nsh m deee n phlsph and eln at the Unvest Tnt. hannah KapniK i am statn m jun ea at Wellesle Cllee, whee i’m majn n At Hst. Last ea, i was ne the cundes the bet Mdash at the campus Hllel, whch i nw cdnate weekl leann sessns. i anze yame iun/stud sessns bstn-aea students as an nten The Cente Mden Tah Leadeshp and am the maketn dect The Mlk and Hne Pess. byfi has cntnued t e a eall mptant pat m Jewsh dentt and cmmunt. daniel MaRans i am ennn m
jun ea at Jhns Hpkns Unvest n baltme whee i am cntnun m studes a deee n Hst. i wll e studn n Pas next semeste, whee i hpe t ecme luent n fench. Ths past semeste i ntened at a tademak lcensn aenc whee i t st hand expeence n a nche cne the maketn wld--and ealzed t pal wasn’t me. Aund campus i am the pesdent Jews n geek Le and the Jewsh identt Cha m atent (AEP). i am als the pammn dect the Hpkns Cllee Demcats wth whch i wll e wkn avdl t elect baack oama.
aRiel pOllOCK i am statn ut m jun ea cllee wth a semeste aad n Cape Twn, Suth Aca. in addtn t havn a eneall enchn and amazn expeence s a, i am especall nteested n eseachn Jewsh cmmuntes and Jewsh le dun the apathed ea. S a m eseach s pvn t e ascnatn and cmplex. i als just spent a week taveln aund Nama, a cunt i hhl ecmmend t anne lkn an adventue. i wuld lve t meet up wth an bnmanm taveln thuh Suth Aca! MiChael pOMeRanZ i am a sen
at yale majn n relus Studes and wtn a sen thess n the ntesectn eln and pltcs, pehaps n the use eln n Amecan schls the pupse ceatn ctzens. Last summe i wked the Amecan Cuncl Tustees and Alumn, a hhe educatn nn-pt, and am seusl cnsden wk n educatn plc, ethe hhe ed. K-12. i am edt-n-che the byfi Alumn Ventue fund-suppted fat Lux: A Junal reln at yale (www.ale.edu/atlux) and the shtstp n the yale Clu baseall t eam. aRiel weRneR i am statn m
Sen ea at bwn Unvest, whee i am cncentatn n Pltcal Scence and wtn an hns thess n ecent develpments n the pltcs cme and ncaceatn. i lead a up bwn wmen n teachn ats and wtn wkshps n rhde island’s mnmum- and medum-secut psns, and i’m wkn wth ne m pesss t eseach the 1993 case a man we eleve s wnull ncaceated hee a mude he dd nt cmmt. i’m als anzn n campus and n rhde island baack oama, and i’ve een taveln the Ntheast snce last Septeme tn t shae the lve. Ths ea i was hned t eceve the Ha S. Tuman Schlashp, whch put me n tuch wth a cmmunt ndvduals dedcated t lves pulc sevce and wll help me sncantl as i june twads law schl. i’m plannn t mve t New yk ate aduatn, whee m end just stated NyU Law. i lk wad t takn pat n the man New yk aea bnman alumn actvtes.
2005 aRiel fisheR i just t ack m
en the cunsel n ths past summe’s summe’s bnman tp. i am nw a sphme at the Unvest Pennslvana whee i am majn n Uan Studes. JORdan hiRsCh i am nw a Jun
at Cluma majn n Mden Eupean Hst. Hst. Ths past spn, i ecame edt-n-che The Cuent, Cluma’s Cluma’s junal cntempa
pltcs, cultue, and Jewsh aas (www.clumacuent.). The Cuent s a ecpent a byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant. Ths past summe, i ntened tw mnths w th D. Mchael oen at the Shalem Cente, a eula speake n byfi summes and auth tw New yk Tmes estselles. elisheva GOldbeRG s cuentl
ennn he sphme ea at the Unvest Pennslvana whee she has decded t dule maj n Hst and Nea Easten Lanuaes and Cvlzatns (NELC). Last ea she went n an Altenatve Spn beak tp t Hnduas thuh the Amecan Jewsh Wld Sevce whee she helped a up Penn Hllel students uld a stae aclt sustanale acultue. As she calls Seattle hme, she spent the majt the 2008 summe thee, ntenn JTNews, the Jewsh newspape Washntn state and takn a class n Ancent geek Phlsph at the Unvest Washntn. She als spent thee weeks n isael n a Patneshp 2000 pam n Phladelpha’s sste ct Netvt ee jnn he aml the hkn-lled and stunnnl scenc vacatn n lus Munt rane Natnal Pak ee etunn t Phladelpha. She s the MASA nten n Penn’s campus ths ea n addtn t en a meme Hllel’s Educatn Cmmttee as well as an actve meme man campus anzatns. She hpes t stud aad next ea n an Aac speakn cunt. She wuld lke t wsh the ente bnman cmmunt a Shana Tva U’Metuka (a d and sweet new ea). MOlly hOisinGtOn i am lkn
wad t statn m sphme ea at Nthwesten Unvest ths all. it wll e m st as a meme the encn team (sae squad). i wll als e vlunteen n the pulmna dvsn a lcal hsptal, and wll uthe exple vaus majs cmpatle wth the medcal eld. aaROn KRivitZKy i am a sen at
Mddleu Cllee; a dual Phlsph/Enlsh maj. i just nshed cnsultn and c-wtn a Hunte Pess pulcatn: “Educatnal opptuntes n inteatve Medcne”. it’s a eeence ude t the vaus caee pptuntes n hlstc medcne and the emen eld nteatve medcne. i am ennn m tw tem sen thess n Exstentalsm and Nhlsm n Lteatue. i als just nshed a summe ntensve Heew at Mddleu. M eae/ck and, yuzm, s n the uptun. http://www. uzm.net/musc.html u want t lsten t a sundad ecdn u last shw. i plan t tavel t isael n Deceme n aml tp. i am alwas lkn wk n the nn-ctn expst wtn venue.
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up advanced tann as a tank unne n the iDf, and wll mst lkel e statn cmmande tann late ths all. i’m lvn n Jeusalem, ut spendn almst 100% m tme n the deset at a ase twent mnutes nth Elat. JOdi MeyeROwitZ i cuentl lve n
Euene, oen and am n m thd ea at the Clak Hns Cllee at the Unvest oen studn Ecnmcs and Plannn, Pulc Plc, and Manaement. As a feshman inteest gup Assstant n the resdence Halls, i c-teach a class aut cedt and mclendn st ea students, help them adjust t cllee, and resdence Le. As the student ad pesdent oen Hllel, i am ten und thee talkn wth sta, students, plannn pams, and unnn meetns. i am extemel passnate aut these tw anzatns and pstns, hweve the endeav that i’m mst excted aut s Shme Ach - a ea-ln tzedek and Jewsh-dentt ased pam that cnnects isael and Daspa Jew - that a end and i develped ths summe at the PesenTense insttute n Jeusalem. We’e ateul the suppt pvded thuh a byfi Alumn Ventue fund ant. Kaitlin neMeth He evene! Last
ea, i had a gnspn intenshp isael Advcac wth Hllel intenatnal. M cus was n isael tavel and i anzed events such as enet cncets and the un actvtes, ncludn a Jewsh and Chstan Altenatve Spn beak tp t isael. Ate i cmpleted m ntenshp, i decded t stud aad n isael. Cuentl, Cuentl, i’m at Tel Avv Unvest. i’ll e ack at Muhlene Cllee n Allentwn, PA smetme n Janua. Janua. aRiela ROthstein i am enten m thd ea at yale, ennn the Teache Pepaatn Pam thee, and cntnun n as cdnat Cmmunt-based Leann thuh Dwht Hall, yale’s yale’s Cente Pulc Sevce and Scal Justce. i’m lkn wad t meetn all the enten bnmanm, a new PoTUS, cntnun a bnman tadtn suppt New oleans, and hstn dnne pates n m new apatment! Masha shpOlbeRG i’m cuentl a jun at Pncetn, studn Cmpaatve Lteatue n russan and fench, and ettn a “cetcate” (Pncetn’s (Pncetn’s equvalent a mn) n pantn. i als just t ack m a wndeul summe studn lm n Pland and am seusl cnsden cntnun n n lm studes. f sme easn, i und msel thnkn ack t bnman qute a ew tmes dun the tp, patculal dun the Jewsh cultual estval n Kakw. i hpe evene’s evene’s dn well, and send all m lve,
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Ate dplmas wee nall handed ut n eal summe, the 2007 bnman ellws all emaked n the wn sepaate junes, ennn the next mptant phases n the lves. eliOt abRaMs spent ths past summe stan the Wheeln, iL ramah Da Camp, nn a t the bnman spt aln wth hm. And ths all, he s statn at the Unvest Chca as a ptental Ecnmcs and Phlsph dule maj, ut the schl s s clse t hme that he plans n etunn and spendn the Hh Hldas wth the aml. Gabe fRieden s at Pncetn whee he has eht mmates, sx whm ae Asan, ne whm s als named gae. He’s plannn n studn math sme st scence. RebeKah JudsOn, wh aduated hh schl n the spn 2007 spent the ea vlunteen at a pulc schl n the bnx wth Ct yea, yea, a nn-pt anzatn dedcated t mpvn educatn n New yk Ct schls. ben sChenKel was selected as a Pesdental Schla and spent tw weeks taveln thuh Chna and lvn wth hst amles whle n the Student Leades Exchane. Nw he stats at yale. anya van waGtendOnK s als at yale, takn wndeul and exctn classes, meetn ncedle peple, and, she epts, “tn t take ull advantae all the pptuntes, Jewsh and thewse, that cme m wa.” aRi atKins, als a 2007 aduate, spent the ea taveln aund Eupe, Suth Ameca, and inda. JORdan yadOO s at Cnell Unvest, whee he plans t pusue a deee n industal and La relatns, wth a mn n Law and Scet. He spent a week ths past summe n Washntn DC t attend AiPAC’s summe Saan leadeshp semna, whch ncluded ums wth Senats baaa bxe and Jn Kl, cnessnal epesentatves ret Wexle and Mak Kk, as well as Whte Huse Che Sta Jsh blten. The pam enhanced hs undestandn the stuatn n isael and the Mddle East and develped hs sklls n the aea pltcal ln. He was als ne uhl t ncmn eshmen t e named a Hunte r. rawlns iii Pesdental reseach Schla. As 5769 ens, a d nume the 2007 ellws wll head t sme the cunt’s cunt’s tp cllees, ncludn yale, bwn, Stand, and Cnell t pusue deees n a ad ane elds. Sme the the ellws wll emak n ntenatnal adventues. eliana RObeRts GOldinG and elyssa Kaplan wll spend the ea n the bnman bat n Jeusalem, studn and dn cmmunt sevce. eitan lefKOwitZ , nOah lindenfeld , aRielle lewis, Julie MeyeR, and hOdy neMes ae als etunn t isael t stud n yeshvah, he stats
semeste lvn n the bnman bat and leann n eshvat eetz hatzv. i stated at bandes Unvest n the Spn whee i etuned a ew weeks a. Ths summe i ntened at blueSta Pr, a p-isael nn-pt n San fancsc, and attended tw A iPAC cneences, ne wth the Samuel bnman fundatn. Gabe GReenwOOd lved n Jeusalem a ea wth the bnman bat and s nw a eshman at Pncetn. RivKah blutstein lved n Jeusalem a ea wth the bnman bat and s nw a eshman at banad. Madeleine levey lved n Jeusalem a semeste wth the bnman bat, wked a semeste at hme, and s nw a eshman at the U nvest Mchan. tOva nadleR epts: last ea
i spent tw semestes studn n Mdeshet Lndenaum, a mdasha advance wmen’s tah stud n Jeusalem. Ths ea i am a st ea at banad Cllee n New yk. JOnah fisheR spent a ea at a
Mechna pam n isael. He s nw a eshman at bwn. nathaniel GaRdenswaRtZ
Ths past ea, i lved n Jeusalem as pat the bnman bat. it was a phenmenal expeence. Nw i am a eshman at Pncetn... an exctn chane! shani ROsenbauM spent a ea at
Mdeshet Lndenaum, als knwn at bvendes, n isael. She s nw a eshman at bandes. eMMa sOKOlOff-Rubin i just
stated m sphme ea at yale, yale, whee i’m enjn takn classes n as man aeas as pssle and meetn new peple eve da. da. M das hee nclude a mx new and ld nteests: i’m stll plan clanet and ultmate see wheneve i can, and i’ve als stated leann salsa and sevn n the ed ad the undeaduate ntenatnal aas maazne. i spent the summe eseachn ace and dmestc vlence n Ntheast bazl, a pject that wll cntnue as i ncpate m eseach nt cusewk and maazne atcles ths ea. benaMy yashaR Ate an amaz-
n, le-chann ea spent n the bnman bat n isael and taveln Eupe, i am statn m st ea studes at Stand Unvest wth cuses n math, scence, and enneen.
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yale n 2009. isaaC wildeR wll patcpate n a cultual exchane lv n wth a Mahaaja n Udapu.
2008 Tah Aukland, Tama blanchad, Zach bleeme, bleeme, bah Cahana, Aan ClatnDunn, Seena Cvkn, Jule Cnan, Jack deTa, Alana fchman, Kala fste, fste, benjamn fedman, Jac gunee, gunee, Alxanda Heman Kesman, Jac Hutt, Jana Kzlwsk, reecca Males, Ele Peltz, Andeas rtene, Daneel Schaechte, Justn Shechtel, Jake Spnwtz, Sha Telushkn, Samuel Telzak, gace Wallack, Aan Wene, olva Wnd yOZMa saRa heitleR baMbeRGeR s
cuentl the Dect the reln, Pltcs and glalzatn Pam at UC bekele (pp.ekele.edu). She lves n bekele, Calna wth he husand, Kenneth bamee, wh s a law pess at UC bekele’s balt Hall Schl Law, and the thee chlden, Max (5), isaah (4) and Nva (2). Judith shapeRO s the Head
the Depatment Jewsh Thuht at TanenaumCHAT. She teachs Jewsh Ethcs, Hst and Wmen’s Wmen’s Studes and s a lectue n the relus Studes and Lnustcs depatments at yk Unvest. She s lvn n Tnt and maed t Daen Phllpsn wth tw chlden, Man (6), and Jac (4).
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