SAMPLE IDEAS: - How Might We Use and Help This Network? What more should or could this Alumni Council do? What is best use of alumni network and how could we enable that? - Recommendations and ideas for programming (either local/regional gatherings organized by delegates) OR online networking and/or learning (make a list and let Angie know) - Given the changes and opportunities afoot (Heritage and Professional North American programs spinning off) what do we alumni delegates (and/or staff) need to consider in terms of communication, event planning, goals, shifts in emphasis, crazy new ideas of what we might do or tweaks we should make down the road in our programming?)
Rabbi Uri Topolosky is the spiritual leader of Kehilat Pardes – The Rock Creek Synagogue and also serves as the Rav HaKehillah of the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, MD.
Uri served previously as the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans for six years where he helped revitalize a community shattered by Hurricane Katrina. He received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and was a member of the second graduating... Read More →
Meet in the lobby by 3:30 sharp with your weather and hiking paraphernalia (snacks provided, please bring your own water, sunscreen, hats, glasses, etc). We will shuttle 5 minutes over to the Rim Trail South. The hike is an out and back totaling 3.98 miles, and with a total elevation gain of 767 feet - usually defined as a moderate hike. Up will take us about 45 minutes to an hour, and down about 30 - 40 minutes. Which will give us at least 30 minutes to learn with Rabbi Jay Moses once at the top, a perfect place to think about the nexus between heaven and earth and our new name "SULAM" (commonly translated as ladder from the only place where the word appears in the Torah: Jacob's dream of the angels ascending and descending).
Rabbi Jay Henry Moses is Vice President of The Wexner Foundation, having served for many years as Director of the Wexner Heritage Program, North America’s premier Jewish leadership education program. He joined the staff of The Wexner Foundation in 2003.Rabbi Moses got his start... Read More →
