jenrolnick
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For several years, I have worked with b'nai mitzvah students and families to prepare Torah and Haftarah readings for the big day. I have...
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jenrolnick
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Welcome to the Jewish Leadership 2.0 Blog
This blog is a collection of my masters work in the areas of Jewish communal leadership and education. A wide range of topics are...
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Jul 9, 202112 min read
Leadership Theory and Practice Part 2: Leadership Lessons
Our study of leadership this semester began with a discussion of the importance of vision (Bor, 2021a). Galperin also stresses the...
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Jul 9, 20217 min read
Leadership Theory and Practice Part 1: Observation, Dialogue and Applications
Ancient and modern societies alike have been fascinated by the intricacy of dynamic leadership. Although there is no formula for...
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jenrolnick
Jul 9, 202118 min read
The Evolution of Jewish Thought: From Maimonides to Martha Nussbaum
I. Introduction There are certain rites of passage that Jewish people around the world share. For most, the bar or bat mitzvah ceremony,...
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Jul 9, 202112 min read
Evolution of the Modern American Synagogue from 2000-2020
In 1956, ten families met to share their dream of forming a Jewish spiritual home in a cottage in Randallstown, Maryland. The community...
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Jul 9, 20218 min read
The Role of Extra-biblical Texts in the Joseph Story
The Joseph Story is one of the central narratives of the bible. It connects the narratives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the Israelite...
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jenrolnick
Jul 9, 20218 min read
The Politics and Prophecy of Jeremiah
The prophecies of Jeremiah are inextricably intertwined with the politics of his era. This paper will explore the role of prophets, like...
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Jul 9, 202126 min read
Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: Models of Rabbinic and Legal Education
In 1999, nineteen-year-old computer programmer Shawn Fanning and twenty-year-old Shawn Parker created Napster, a peer-to-peer file...
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jenrolnick
Jul 9, 202123 min read
Salamone Rossi: A Jew among Jews and a Jew Among Christians
There I stood on the millennium stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as one of the forty members of Zemer Chai, the Jewish...
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Jul 9, 20218 min read
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Artwork by the Children of Theresienstadt
Many years ago, I was invited to participate in the Connecticut State Assembly Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. In addition to chanting...
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