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About the Program
Organizations that serve the Jewish community operate in a rapidly changing social, cultural and political landscape. The Executive Leadership Program empowers rising leaders of Jewish nonprofits to sharpen their guiding visions of Jewish communal life and expand their leadership and management skills.
Program Pillars
Social Analysis
Fellows analyze trends in North American Jewish communities and Israeli society, and grapple together with salient opportunities and challenges.
Visons of Jewish Life
Fellows examine ideas that animate contemporary Jewish life in diverse settings, and sharpen their own visions of the Jewish future.
Nonprofit Management
Fellows develop their leadership signatures and stories, and learn ways to catalyze organizations to achieve vision-guided change.
Program Overview
A 18-month program including three seminars in Boston and one in Israel.
Instruction by the Mandel Institute’s multidisciplinary faculty in leadership and nonprofit management, social analysis and visions of Jewish life.
Group deliberation and live case studies on the changing communal landscape: increasing diversity, new patterns of association, rising polarization, and new dynamics in the Israel-diaspora relationship.
Joint learning with fellows and faculty of Israel-based Mandel leadership programs.
Short courses on a variety of leadership and management skills.
Individual work on leadership and career pathways with a Mandel Institute mentor.
Seminar Dates
Cohort III
Seminar 1
May 23-27, 2021 (Virtual)
Seminar 2
January 10-13, 2022 (Virtual)
April Gathering
April 3-5th, 2022 (Boston)
Seminar 3
May 9-16, 2022 (Israel)
Seminar 4
January 8-12, 2023 (Boston)
Cohort IV
Seminar 1
November 6-10, 2022 (Boston)
Seminar 2
May 16-23, 2023 (Israel)
Seminar 3
November 5-9, 2023 (Boston)
Seminar 4
May 13-17, 2024 (Boston)
Fellows & Graduates

Sam Aboudara
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Matt Abrams Gerber
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Marni Allen
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Steven Baker
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Michal E. Becker
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

David L. Cohen
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Isabel de Koninck
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Stacey Aviva Flint
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Derek Gale
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Evan Goldman
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Adam Kolett
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Naomi Lamb
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Lisa Long
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Amy Marks
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Judith Moses Dworkin
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Gabe Most
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Rori Picker Neiss
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Betsy Polk Joseph
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Alexandra Roth-Kahn
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Richard Walter
Executive Cohort IV 2022-2024

Judy Alperin
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Lisa Armony
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Ronnie Conn
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Abbey Feinberg
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Brad Finkel
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Abbey Frank
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Meggie Fredman
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Dan Goldwin
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Stephanie Hausner
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Matt Kernkraut
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Naomi Knopf
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Ashley Lasher
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Allie Lipner Rosenblum
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Liv Mendelsohn
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Maxima Patashnik
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Shelley Rood Wernick
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Darren Schwartz
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Karen Sher
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Stefanie Tuzman
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Martín Yafé
Executive Cohort III 2021-2023

Zach Briton
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Jessica Brown Smith
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Roxanne Cohen
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Sam Cohen
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Andrew Cushnir
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Anita Denes-Meador
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Karen Elam
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Sally Flinchbaugh
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Mindee Fredman
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Hana Gruenberg
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Chavie N. Kahn
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Jason Kunzman
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

David Kurzmann
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Eric Lightman
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Naomi Rosenfeld
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Rachel Rubenstein
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Sami Sinclair
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Dani Weinstein
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Nataly Yusim
Executive Cohort II 2020-2022

Sarah Beutel
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Tova Birnbaum
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Elisa Deener-Agus
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Adina Frydman
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Sue Gelsey
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

James Greene
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Jennifer Gross
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Daniel Held
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Renée Kutner
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Michelle Labgold
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Abbie Levin
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Paul Lurie
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Jesse Rosen
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Erika Rudin-Luria
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Hugh Seid-Valencia
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019

Adam Silver
Executive Cohort I 2018-2019
Faculty & Mentors

Naomi Adler
Mentor

Deborah Ancona
Faculty

Mara Benjamin
Faculty

Robin Bernstein
Mentor

Jeremy Burton
Mentor

Sarah Bunin Benor
Faculty

Cindy Chazan
Mentor

Allan Finkelstein
Mentor

Alan Gill
Mentor

Stephen H. Hoffman
Mentor

Dan Judson
Faculty

Asher Lopatin
Faculty

John Ruskay
Mentor

Devora Steinmetz
Faculty

David Stolow
Faculty
Eligibility & FAQ
Applications for Cohort V will open in Spring 2023.