On Wednesday, 24 August 2011, I along with 50 others attended Dave Weinberg‘s Future of Jewish Nonprofit summit (FOJNP) in New York. The event brought together some great minds in the nonprofit Jewish world to talk about how to raise money in these difficult times, proper use of social media (Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), and how to get your ideas out there. I think it was a resounding success.
The Follies of Zest
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
My Ideal Leadership Conference
Over 400 “young leaders” from Jewish communities around the globe attended Masa’s Building Future Leadership (BFL) conference. Masa did a brilliant job in their first attempt at a week-long leadership conference, and my hat goes off to them. One thing that struck me during the conference: I really wasn’t the target demographic. So for the heck of it, I’ve decided to dream up what BFL could have been, if it had been designed with me in mind.
We Make It Rain
This is a post I’ve been meaning to get out for a while. It dates to my time with Livnot U’Lehibanot (To Build and Be Built) in Tzfat back in December 2010. (Actually published on 27 February 2011).
What’s it like to celebrate the rain?
This is a question I had never asked myself before I had actually done it. Continue reading
Secular Religion
We celebrated Sukkot quite differently from our previous two holidays – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For the new year we visited our homestay families – I went to services and ate tons of food prepared wonderfully by my host mother. For Yom Kippur, OTZMA provided a structured curriculum where we learned about how different aspects of Israeli society view atonement. We were free for a week to do whatever we wanted. Continue reading
The Old City is quiet
I just finished walking around the Old City of Jerusalem on Yom Kippur.
Jerusalem is so quiet today, the streets are nearly empty. I saw only three cars driving the road, there were far more people riding by bike. And even then, it was mostly the children. While the country is shut down for the day, the kids have free reign to play in the streets – running through the intersections without a care in the world. Continue reading
