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 have gained more than just knowledge; I returned from Brazil with a clearer perspective on the Jewish world today, along with valuable connections, tools, and a renewed sense of grounding.
    Carmel Levy - New Zealand

ONLINE LEARNING

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

Reflections on NGF 35

Brazil - August 2025

NGF IN THE NEWS

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The Jewish Standard

The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship in Brazil

These are turbulent times, but as an educator I find renewal when teaching and learning with my students and fellow educators. Last month, I experienced this firsthand as a faculty member of the Nahum Goldman Fellowship, a project of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

 

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The Times of Israel

Navigating in this Transformational Moment: Insights from the NGF

Having just returned from the 35th Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, where 36 young leaders from 16 countries came together outside of Sao Paulo Brazil, the seminar mirrored all the complexities and challenges facing Jewish leaders and communities in this difficult and uncertain moment. This year’s seminar was framed around two embracing values, “Truth” and “Responsibility”, ideas that could be seen as bound together and yet might play out as being in tension with one another.

 

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eJewish Philanthropy

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.