Lessons in Leadership

NGF Network Leadership Seminar Cohort members are responsible for completing a ‘Lesson in Leadership’ that uses their experience in the NGF Leadership Seminar to develop and execute a project, program, or lesson to enrich their local community or organization.

Engaging with difficult texts to help us frame Jewish leadership ethically

Being sensitive to timing and being willing to shed old paradigms that no longer work

How to increase leadership capacity in Jewish organizations

Using a collective leadership model to create opportunities for engaging different viewpoints

Using Israel's experience with trauma to catalyze change and growth

How new ideas and strong narratives can form the basis of community building for the future

Making 'joy' a component of Jewish education and connection

Creating meaningful connectons using network-weaving

How tuning into your inner emotional response can make you a stronger and more authentic leader

Exploring curiosity as a fundamental practise of leadershp

Creating a model of leadership that encourages dialogue and opennenss

How a journey from Reform to Modern Othodox Judaism impacts leadership roles and goals

The importance of athentic leadership and self reflection in the practise of effective leadership that ensures continutity and not burn-out

True strength comes from embracing inclusivity, sharing culture boldly, and breaking down barriers — because the best way to fight an...

During times of our hardship, our best answer is to harness our emotions as powerful tools for communication and connection.

Explore how Jewish leadership is, at its core, a storytelling act—one that both preserves tradition and responds to change.

Why creating more committed Jewish communities who share a sense of beloning is the best answer to assimilation and antiisemtism

Rethinking what Jewish belonging means beyond traditional geography.

How to relate to and intigrate our history of persecution without letting it define us

Three historical examples that demonstrate the importance of Jewish culture and exploring the leadership lessons contained therein

The importance of educating and equippingyoung Jews for the post-October 7 reality

Cultural creativity as an expression of leadership

The challenges of creating meaningful communal engagement for changing social domographics

Giving back to the NGF as a product of authentic and pesonal leadership

Using the 'Moses Model' to explore the role of effective communications in leadership

Changing the structural power paradigms of liberal synaogues

Using multi-dimenstional creative arts to access Jewish texts

Creating a centralized platform for ongoing online Jewish education

Programs created to engage Jewish youth in Jewish life and Jewish community

It is the responsibility of Jewish leaders to continue learning

Our responsibility to actively work for the real eqaulity of Jewish women within Jewish life and community

How to find your authentic voice in Jewish spaces that might make you uncomfortable

How we can be inspired by Jewish values to step up as Jewish leades in our communities

The importance of making space for marginalized voices in Jewish communities

How emerging Jewish communities can catalyze existing Jewish communities

Creating room for vibrant difference and disagreement in Jewish communal spaces

Program to create leadershp succession in Jewish organizations

The importance of self-reflection as a leader and foregoing personal aspirations for the betterment of Jewish community

The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture or the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship.