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

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

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

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

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

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.

The challenges of creating meaningful communal engagement for changing social domographics

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

Changing the structural power paradigms of liberal synaogues

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