Yeshiva University's CJF May 2012 eNewsletter

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Iyyar 5772 • May 2012
Dear Friends, As we near the end of this academic year and set our horizons on the summer ahead, we are as proud as ever of the efforts underway to provide outstanding leadership opportunities to students and Jewish professionals alike. Our students can choose from different service learning missions to locations including Haiti as well as summer learning and internship initiatives around the United States including Kansas City, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles, or they can opt to be a part of our exciting Counterpoint Israel program which will be expanding from two to five development towns this summer. Opportunities like these truly help our students explore their potential to be agents of change in this world. On the professional front, 23 different Jewish communal professionals will be joining our second cohort of the Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education and will do their part to professionalize and advance this exciting field. And an august group of pulpit rabbis and educators will shortly complete a series of special programs hosted by the CJF, in partnership with the Tikvah Fund, focused on enhancing their skills as public intellectuals and communal visionaries. We invite you to take advantage of our upcoming Shavuot To-Go, our monthly Shabbat Table Conversations and visit us at anytime at YUTorah.com. Our best wishes to you for a healthy, happy and meaningful summer. Our best wishes to you for a healthy, happy and meaningful summer.  Suzy Schwartz Assistant Dean Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) Yeshiva University News from the CJF The Yeshiva University Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education Welcomes its Second Cohort We have recently accepted our second cohort of Jewish educators for the Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education! After an intensive and rigorous international selection process, 23 in-service Jewish professionals have been selected to join our community of educators dedicated to professionalizing their passion and advancing the field of Experiential Jewish Education. Click for Full Article Counterpoint Israel 2012 Over the course of five weeks this summer, a group of Yeshiva University students will travel to Israel to run a fun, safe and educational summer camp for Israeli teenagers who are, for the most part, categorized as Youth-at-Risk. The Counterpoint curriculum is centered on providing opportunities for self-discovery, recognition of one’s potential, and overcoming barriers, for both the Yeshiva University counselors and the Israeli teens. Through daily English lessons, extracurricular activities, occasional field trips and informal interactions, the dynamic between the two groups becomes powerful. Click for Full Article   Innovator’s Circle: Meet Amanda Gelb Amanda Gelb is fascinated by how to bring information and ideas to life. She received a bachelors of commerce in Social Innovation and has enacted imaginative programs with communities of all ages on topics such as social justice, literacy, and free choice. She has enjoyed implementing leading youth programming for Canada’s largest synagogue.  Click for Full Article CJF Works with the Tikvah Fund to Create Seminars for Rabbis In the winter of 2011 and spring of 2012 The Center for the Jewish Future, in partnership with The Tikvah Fund, continued a program for North American pulpit rabbis and educators that was initiated a few months earlier. The program, led by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, proceeded with a series of three seminars, each of which explored a broad moral theme of both contemporary urgency and deep Jewish dimensions. Click for Full Article   CJF Summer 2012 Service Learning Missions to Germany and Haiti This summer, the CJF will be running two impactful programs for the Yeshiva University student-body: an educational program to Germany and a humanitarian mission to Haiti: Click for Full Article		yu.edu/CJF Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future home page YUTorah The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah, with over 50,000 shiurim YUConnects Resources for shidduchim and relationships YUSpeakers  The Yeshiva University Speakers Bureau Kollel Yom Rishon  The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Men Midreshet Yom Rishon  The Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Women Experiential Education  Certificate Program in Jewish Experiential Education Torah Tours Torah Tours registration for synagogues and YU students Championsgate Championsgate Leadership Conference Chicago Torah The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Chicago Community Kollel Toronto Torah The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Zichron Dov Community Beit Midrash of Toronto CJF/Rabbis Rabbinic resources, drasha materials and more YUTorah on Facebook Like YUTorah on Facebook YUTorah on Twitter Follow YUTorah on Twitter
Our mission is to shape, enrich and inspire the contemporary Jewish community by convening the resources of Yeshiva University, infusing the student body with a spirit of leadership and a sense of responsibility to the Jewish people and society ingeneral, building, cultivating, and supporting communities, and their lay and rabbinic leaders, and creating a global movement that promotes the values of Yeshiva University Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future 500 West 185th St. Suite 419 • New York, NY 10033 • 212.960.5263 • cjf@yu.edu

 

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Download Yeshiva University's newest Yom Haatzmaut To-Go 5772 (Online only)

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Download Yom Haatzmaut To-Go 5772 which contains the following articles:
	The Halakhic Basis for Yom Ha-Atzmaut - Rabbi David Brofsky (Midreshet Lindenbaum) Jewish Nationalism (Hebrew) - Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg (Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh) Preparation for the First National Aliyah: A Study of Sefer Yehoshua’s First Chapter - Mrs. Esther Grossman (Machon Maayan, Shaalvim for Women) The Religious Nature of Yom Ha’atzmaut - Rabbi Ari Heller (Yeshivat Hakotel) Peninei Halachah on Yom HaAtzma’ut - Rabbi Moshe Lichtman (Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah) The Inner Relationship Between the Holocaust and The Establishment of the State of Israel - Rabbi Avraham Lubarsky (Michlalah) The Holy of Holies - Rabbi David Milston (Midreshet HaRova) Practicing Jew? - Rabbi Michael Siev (Yeshivat Lev Hatorah) Is Yom Haatzmaut Worth a Hallel? - Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky (Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim) Plus 3 more years of Yom Haatzmaut To-Go issues with additional articles and divrei Torah

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Spend Shavuos with Yeshiva University!  Yeshiva University is excited to announce the second annual RIETS Shavuos Yarchei Kallah, taking place at the Rye Town Hilton over Shavuos /Memorial Day Weekend - May 25th-28th (4 nights, 3 days). Last year’s sold-out event had more than 500 people and was an unforgettable yom tov of Torah and inspiration. Catering by Chap-a-Nosh of Cedarhurst. Bring your family – day camp and babysitting are available! Join President Richard M. Joel and more than 15 featured speakers including Rav Hershel Schachter, Rav Yona Reiss, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Dr. David Pelcovitz, Dr. Rona Novick and Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter.  Early Bird special until April 30th. For registration and more information, please visit yu.edu/riets/shavuos or call (646) 592-4021

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	The Defining Moment: Once and Again - Rabbi Reuven Brand (Rosh Kollel, YU Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago) Sippur Yetzias Mitzrayim as a Special Form of Talmud Torah - Rabbi Menachem Genack (Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS) The Reality of Freedom - Dr. Naomi Grunhaus (Assistant Professor of Bible, Stern College for Women) Celebrating Pesach in the Land of the Pharaohs - Dr. Jill Katz (Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology, Yeshiva University) The Freedom of Family - Rabbi Yona Reiss (Max and Marion Grill Dean, RIETS) Pesach: The Festival of Liberty and Love - Rabbi Eliav Silverman (Sho'el u'Meishiv, RIETS Israel Kollel, Yeshiva University) Geared To Go: She'eilat Keilim - Mrs. Natalie Taylor (Director of Women’s Leadership Programming, Center for the Jewish Future) Haggadah Discussions for the Family A Collection from Yeshiva University's Community Kollelim Plus 5 more years of Pesach To-Go issues with additional articles and divrei Torah

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Download Purim To-Go 5772 which contains the following articles:
	Remembering Purim During the Messianic Age - Rabbi Yosef Blau (Senior Mashgiach Ruchani, Yeshiva University) The Relationship between Mishlo'ach Manot and Matanot La'Evyonim - Rabbi Joshua Flug (Director of Torah Research, CJF) Purim and the 'Randomness' of Life - Rabbi Ozer Glickman (Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS) Whose Battle? Whose Victory? - Dr. Shalom E. Holtz (Assistant Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University) Purim - Fulfilling Jewish Destiny - Mrs. Shoshana Schechter (Instructor in Bible and Director of Mechina, Stern College for Women) The Joy of Giving - Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner (Rosh Beit Midrash, Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Zichron Dov Beit Midrash of Toronto) Collected Insights from members of the Masters of Arts in Biblical and Talmudic Interpretation program at Stern College for Women (Meira Rubin, Miryam Spiegel, Sarah Steinberg, Derora Tropp, Ora Ziring) Plus 2 more years of Purim To-Go issues with additional articles and divrei Torah

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Yeshiva University's CJF February 2012 eNewsletter

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Shevat 5772 • February 2012
Dear Friends, Below we have listed various articles which reflect our mission and vision for creating a culture of engaged young people, helping to develop strong vibrant communities led by inspired and passionate leaders, and sharing a Jewish Torah ethic that is tolerant, relevant, and meaningful. We are proud to have sent 141 students on Service Learning Missions over Winter Break, spanning three continents, and five countries. We have seen time and again, that the more opportunities students have to see and experience how they can be agents of change, the better the chance they will recognize their capacity to assume positions of professional and communal leadership in the future. We look forward to seeing great things from these students and the many others who participate in all of our different leadership programs. We continue to take pride in our Shabbat Table Discussion series that is growing in distribution and readership. We hope that you and your family are using them to enrich your Shabbat Table conversations. Rabbi Kenneth Brander The David Mitzner Dean Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future News from the CJF  Coast to Coast and Around the Globe Students Explore Social Justice on CJF Missions to Ukraine, Central America, Israel and the West Coast Whether building libraries in the Nicaraguan heat or renovating a youth center in the cold of Kharkov, Ukraine, Yeshiva University students were hard at work during the winter intersession participating in Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) programs around the world. Comprised of seven service-learning missions across Europe, Israel, Central America and the United States, the programs ran from January 12-22 and involved 140 undergraduates. Click for full article CJF Winter Missions in the News Read about the missions on New Jersey Jewish News Read about the mission on the New Jersey Jewish Standard Read about the missions on jWeekly.com Read about the mission on the Canadian Jewish News Read about the mission on eJewish Philanthropy Rabbis Explore Jewish Genetic Health Twenty-five percent of Ashkenazim are carriers for at least one genetic disorder—“which means that it’s not a stigma; it’s a community problem,” said Dr. Nicole Schreiber-Agus at a rabbinic symposium on genetics hosted by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) on Monday, December 5. “There are many options for having a healthy family,” said Agus, noting that there are also specifically Sephardic disorders. Click for Full Article Puah Institute Course at Yeshiva University As former rabbi of South Florida’s Boca Raton Synagogue, Rabbi Kenneth Brander would regularly field questions from couples struggling with fertility issues. “I didn’t know how to answer these difficult questions,” said Brander, who currently serves as David Mitzner Dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). After taking a sabbatical and studying at the Puah Institute (Machon Puah)—Israel’s renowned institute of fertility and medicine in accordance with halacha [Jewish law]— Brander realized just how important it was for young rabbis to be trained in this emerging field. Click for Full Article   Orthodox rabbi discusses haredi extremism From the Canadian Jewish News Almost 40 years after being ordained by a haredi yeshiva, a leading modern Orthodox rabbi says he is still very much in contact with the haredi world and that recent reports of marginalization of women by that community are “a reflection of militancy on the part of a very tiny minority that I don’t believe represents the true values of the world in which they were raised.” Read full article on the Candian Jewish News		yu.edu/CJF Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future home page YUTorah The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah, with over 50,000 shiurim YUConnects Resources for shidduchim and relationships YUSpeakers  The Yeshiva University Speakers Bureau Kollel Yom Rishon  The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Men Midreshet Yom Rishon  The Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Women Experiential Education  Certificate Program in Jewish Experiential Education Torah Tours Torah Tours registration for synagogues and YU students Championsgate Championsgate Leadership Conference Chicago Torah The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Chicago Community Kollel Toronto Torah The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Zichron Dov Community Beit Midrash of Toronto CJF/Rabbis Rabbinic resources, drasha materials and more YUTorah on Facebook Like YUTorah on Facebook YUTorah on Twitter Follow YUTorah on Twitter
Our mission is to shape, enrich and inspire the contemporary Jewish community by convening the resources of Yeshiva University, infusing the student body with a spirit of leadership and a sense of responsibility to the Jewish people and society ingeneral, building, cultivating, and supporting communities, and their lay and rabbinic leaders, and creating a global movement that promotes the values of Yeshiva University Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future 500 West 185th St. Suite 419 • New York, NY 10033 • 212.960.5263 • cjf@yu.edu

 

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