FELLOWSHIP ARCHIVE
NGF 3 was the first Fellowship held in Russia welcoming 72 Fellows from 35 countries, including 38 Russian participants. Joining the NGF for the first time were Fellows from Israel and the United States, as well as from Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Brazil.
program
The theme of this NGF was Jewish Leadership and Renewal. The program included sessions addressing:
Biblical Models of Leadership and Renewal
Jewish Leadership and Renewal: Religious Life
Jewish Leadership and Renewal: Cultural Life
Jewish Leadership and Renewal: Communal Life
faculty
Professor Chimen Abramsky, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London, England
Professor Mordechai Altshuler, Professor of Jewish History, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., USA
Professor Herman Branover, Russian Israeli physicist and Jewish educator, Israel
Professor Oded Eldad
Professor David Fishman, Editor in Chief, YIVO-Bleter, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY, USA
Professor Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Dr. Baruch Gur
Professor Jean Halpérin, Professor of Jewish Thought, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Professor Zev Katz, Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Professor Helen Konstantinovsky
Professor Shalom Rosenberg, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Uriel Simon, Department of Bible, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Professor Ruth Wisse, Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
more about the fellowship
One of the major objectives of this Fellowship was to create a network of communication and support among Fellows. This was achieved through formal lectures as well as opportunities for meaningful social connection.The program continued to provide resources and support for professional and lay leadership training, especially for Soviet Jewry. Workshop sessions were led by Fellows themselves and focused on “The Jewish Community in the 90s.”
On August 19th, two days before the scheduled end of the Fellowship, there was an attempted coup by hard-line elements of the Soviet government and military against President Mikhail Gorbachev and his reforms. This wholly unanticipated event disrupted the formal conclusion of the Fellowship, but not the warm ties that were produced between the talented and gifted young Jews from the West and their Russian peers.
After the program Fellows and Faculty shared contact information and created channels for ongoing support and connection.
