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About the Program
The shape of the North American Jewish community is rapidly changing, presenting Jewish educational leaders with a new set of challenges and opportunities. The Educational Leadership Program is an 18-month fellowship that empowers Jewish educational leaders from a wide range of settings to sharpen their educational visions, broaden their understanding of the educational landscape, and develop leadership skills to bring their visions to fruition.
Program Overview
The program includes four in-person seminars, virtual short courses, peer-led practice groups and one-on-one sessions with an adviser. Three seminars are held at the Mandel Institute’s space in Brookline, MA and one is held in Israel. All program costs and travel expenses are covered by the Mandel Institute. The curriculum is organized around three strands:
Program Strands
Educational Visions
Fellows work to clarify and enrich their educational aims and methods through engagement with a wide range of approaches to Jewish education.
Educational Ecosystem
Fellows deepen their understanding of trends in North American Jewish life, the Jewish educational Institutional landscape, and the evolving history of Jewish education in North America.
Leadership
Fellows develop leadership capacities that empower them to bring their educational visions to life, lead organizational change and act to impact the field more broadly.
Program Dates
Seminar 1: Boston - April 7-11, 2024
Seminar 2: Boston - November 10-14, 2024
Seminar 3: Israel - March 18-25, 2025
Seminar 4: Boston - October 26-30, 2025
About the Fellows
Fellows are educational leaders in Jewish organizations (or Jewish departments in organizations with a broader mission) who aspire to deepen their impact on their own organizations and the broader field. The program deliberately brings together fellows from a wide range of educational settings and perspectives. We believe that educators from different settings have much to learn from one another and that the robust exchange of ideas across settings can spark innovation and clarify visions.
Fellows & Graduates
Rebecca Berger
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Stefani Carlson
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Rachel Dingman
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Rebecca Hammerman
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Yael Jaffe
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Julia Levine
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Eliana Light
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Sarah Moody
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Daniel Olson
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Noach Pawliger
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Aaron Portman
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Keren Rhodes
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
David Saiger
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Jane-Rachel Schonbrun
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Yafit Shriki Megidish
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Alison Weikel
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Rachel Weinstein White
Educational Cohort II 2024-2025
Scott Aaron
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Adi Barel
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Mara Braunfeld
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Megan Doherty
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Tehilah Eisenstadt
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Suri Ganz
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Amy Golding
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Yael Krieger
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Amy Meltzer
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Rebecca Milder
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Laura Perpinyal
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Yehudah Potok
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Tamar Rabinowitz
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Ana Robbins
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Jonathan Shmidt Chapman
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Beverly Socher-Lerner
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Stephanie Tankel
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Mason Voit
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Ethan Zadoff
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Micol Zimmerman Burkeman
Educational Cohort I 2022-2023
Faculty & Advisors
Saul Kaiserman
Advisor
Kathy Simon
Advisor
Arielle Levites
Visiting Faculty
Michelle Shapiro Abraham
Advisor
Devora Steinmetz
Faculty
Jonathan Krasner
Faculty
Tova Birnbaum
Faculty
Michelle Lynn-Sachs
Advisor
Jen Rosenberg
Advisor
Susie Tanchel
Advisor
Jacob Pinnolis
Advisor
Nigel Savage
Advisor
Adam M. Kleinbaum
Visiting Faculty
Michal Fox Smart
Faculty
Jethro Berkman
Faculty
Eligibility & FAQ
Applications for Cohort II are now closed.