The NGF fosters Jewish connectedness among a new generation of current and future leaders.

The week long program provides an intensive experience in Jewish learning and living for emerging leaders between the ages of 25-40 from Jewish communities around the world.

  • I found myself deeply invested in the NGF community. I wasn't ready to leave at all. The whole fellowship created a very compelling, very exciting, very hopeful Jewish space.
    Avishag Ohayon, Finland

ONLINE LEARNING

From Art to Zionism, from Biblical texts to Yiddish, click below to enjoy past online learning sessions led by our global faculty.

International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship
Israel 2023

NGF Network
Lessons in Leadership
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NGF IN THE NEWS

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Encountering South Africa: A distinctively Jewish journey

South Africa doesn’t spring to mind as a high-priority Jewish destination — especially at this moment, as its government pursues its case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, but also because of South Africa’s largest political party’s long-standing criticism of Israel and targeting of the South African Jewish community’s deep ties to the Jewish State.

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The Cape Jewish Chronicle

Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, 26 August – 01 September

Earlier this year, I applied for the prestigious International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship (NGF). I was accepted and in August joined the 34th cohort made up of Jewish individuals from more than ten countries. Aside from South Africa, there was representation from Canada, Mexico, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Panama, Israel, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Finland and Colombia.

2018 NGF Evaluation Report

30 Years of the International NGF
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In 2017, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the NGF, the MFJC conducted an extensive evaluation to understand the long term impact of the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship on past participants. The study indicated that the International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship is indeed helping emerging Jewish lay leaders and professionals: to connect more broadly across the Jewish world; to engage with serious Jewish learning; and to return to their home communities prepared to engage in greater leadership roles.

The effects of the program are summarized in three key areas in which the NGF succeeds: Link. Learn. Lead.

NGF NETWORK

Stay connected with past fellows
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“The work of the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship is very important in uniting the entire Jewish world as one nation.”

Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva – Turkey, NGF 1

68 countries. 1000 members and growing.

Our NGF Global Network members remain connected via deep personal relationships and through our NGF Network programs.

Member of the Network join us for online learning seminars given by NGF faculty, peer-led conversations, on-going web-based leadership workshops, and are eligible to apply for the Network Leadership Seminar.