Q3 2026 - Wexner Heritage Alumni Delegates Council Meeting

HI and HIGH: Welcome All! Connecting and Reconnecting.
Where are we in time, space, heart, mind.
After 9th of Av and Tu B'Av before Elul. Also, Aspen! and together. Nachamu.
The Jewish notion of home and exile and how we as leaders create home
Norms (Confidentiality).
Introducing ourselves.

A revealing and uplifting icebreaker/ opportunity to share best practices.

Please prepare a short report on two “BESTS” that have captured your attention, given you hope, or taken your breath away RECENTLY (in the last year).

They can be Jewish or not (maybe 1 from the Jewish world and one from another part of your life): great ideas, programs, approaches, products, inventions, research, campaigns, studies, collaborations, or WHATEVER. They can be from the business world, the arts, the non-Jewish world, geopolitics, academia, anywhere else, or the Jewish community. Come prepared to give up to a 5-minute MAX presentation to the group. If you want to share written materials, bring enough for 26 people. Fine to bring props but PPT or video for this assignment is NOT encouraged (however, if essential, email Angie). Feel free to comment on how or why you think applying this WOW to the Jewish community or Israel or the world would be positive.

If you are leading a session please choose to share something different. 

Gabrielle: Updates from a college campus and legal progress and new morphs in the legal arena fighting antisemitism
Stephen: facing challenges in the North of Israel
Daniel: AIPG/Auschwitz Jewish Center in light of a Europe and world heading in a different direction

A revealing and uplifting icebreaker/ opportunity to share best practices.

Please prepare a short report on two “BESTS” that have captured your attention, given you hope, or taken your breath away RECENTLY (in the last year).

They can be Jewish or not (maybe 1 from the Jewish world and one from another part of your life): great ideas, programs, approaches, products, inventions, research, campaigns, studies, collaborations, or WHATEVER. They can be from the business world, the arts, the non-Jewish world, geopolitics, academia, anywhere else, or the Jewish community. Come prepared to give up to a 5-minute MAX presentation to the group. If you want to share written materials, bring enough for 26 people. Fine to bring props but PPT or video for this assignment is NOT encouraged (however, if essential, email Angie). Feel free to comment on how or why you think applying this WOW to the Jewish community or Israel or the world would be positive.

If you are leading a session please choose to share something different. 

Jenni: Riding into the Sunset: How to Envision Your Continued Role as a Jewish Leader as you Make Way for the Next Generation.

Jon: balance of how I see myself/participate in American Life vs. Jewish Life, the intersections, the divergences

Christie and Gabrielle: How Do We teach our Kids to Pray?

Doug Liberman: Lessons from the Trail: Minimalism, Mindfulness and Perseverence

Miri Tilson:TBD

We will examine the latest communal studies that give us data on what Jews think about their Jewish Identity and Israel. We will share ideas on whether and how to include various people in our communal tent (and orgs and allocations).