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Bronfman Youth Fellowships
The Bronfman Fellowship is a non-profit educational program for young Jews in Israel and North America. It was founded in 1987 by philanthropist Edgar M. Bronfman, and is partially funded through his foundation, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. It was formerly known as The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel (BYFI). The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers and 20 Israeli teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel for North American Fellows ("Bronfmanim") between the summer of Fellows’ junior and senior years of high school, and a free trip to the United States for Israeli Fellows ("Amitim") during their final year of high school. The program educates and inspires exceptional young Jews from diverse backgrounds to grow into leaders grounded in their Jewish identity and committed to pluralism. The Bronfman Fellowship's network of over 1,400 alumni include 8 Rhodes Scholars, 2 Schwarzman Scholars, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status. Key aspects of nonprofits are accountability, trustworthiness, honesty, and openness to eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot ( he, פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת; also transliterated as ''Pirqei Avoth'' or ''Pirkei Avos'' or ''Pirke Aboth''), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethics, ethical teachings and Maxim (saying), maxims from Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinic Jewish tradition. It is part of didactic Jewish Musar literature, ethical literature. Because of its contents, the name is sometimes given as Ethics of the Fathers. Pirkei Avot consists of the Mishnaic Talmud, tractate of ''Avot'', the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in the Mishnah, plus one additional chapter. Avot is unique in that it is the only tractate of the Mishnah dealing ''solely'' with ethical and moral principles; there is relatively little halakha (laws) in Pirkei Avot. Translation of the title In the title ''Pirkei Avot'', the word "pirkei" is Hebrew for "chapters of". The word ''avot'' means "fathers", and thus ''Pirkei Avot'' is often rendered in English as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Oppenheim
Noah Oppenheim (born 1977 or 1978) is an American television producer, author, and screenwriter. Previously, Oppenheim was the executive in charge and senior producer of NBC's ''Today Show'', where he supervised the 7–8am hour of the broadcast, and head of development at the production company Reveille. He became president of NBC News in 2017. The same year, Ronan Farrow claimed that Oppenheim attempted to stop his reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases, a claim that Oppenheim and NBC have strongly rejected. Early life Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marcia (née Nusbaum) and Jay Oppenheim. He attended The Gregory School in Tucson, Arizona, and served as an editor and writer for the school newspaper, the ''Gregorian Chant''. After high school, Oppenheim graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2000. While attending Harvard, Oppenheim was editorial chair of ''The Harvard Crimson'' from 1996 to 2000. Career Writing In October 2006, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etan Cohen
Etan Cohen ( he, איתן כהן; born March 14, 1974) is an Israeli-American screenwriter and film director who has written scripts for Hollywood movies, including ''Tropic Thunder'', '' Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'', ''Men in Black 3'', and '' The Bad Guys''. Early life and education Born in Israel to a Jewish family, Cohen grew up in the Israeli settlement of Efrat and later in Sharon, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Maimonides School and Harvard College, where he wrote for the ''Harvard Lampoon''. Career His first produced scripts, in 1995 and 1997, were for ''Beavis and Butthead'', where he was credited as Ethan Cohen. He has since written for other Mike Judge-directed projects, including ''King of the Hill'' from 2001 to 2005, and for the feature film ''Idiocracy'' in 2006. In the late 1990s he worked on two other television series – the animated '' Recess'' and the short lived '' It's Like, You Know...''. After scripting ''Idiocracy'', he worked on the animate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Bar-Lev
Amir Bar-Lev (born 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California. Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. He has directed such films as ''Fighter'', a documentary film released August 24, 2001. The film received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 2007 documentary film ''My Kid Could Paint That'' was directed by Bar-Lev, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007. He also served as co-producer of the 2009 Oscar nominated documentary ''Trouble the Water.'' Bar-Lev also directed ''The Tillman Story'', which premiered as a Domestic Documentary Finalist at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Bar-Lev directed Happy Valley, a film about the Penn State Jerry Sandusky Scandal. His most recent film, Long Strange Trip, explored the Grateful Dead. Bar-Lev has taught documentary filmmaking at New York University. He lives in Brookly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz (born September 15, 1980) is an American writer living in Brooklyn, New York City. She is an education correspondent for NPR, a former staff writer for ''Fast Company'' magazine, and columnist for Tribune Media Services, and the author of several books. During 2005, she wrote a column for ''The Village Voice'' called "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young". Her first book, ''Generation Debt'', was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006. Her writing has also appeared in ''New York Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Salon'', ''Slate'', ''The Nation'', ''The Forward'' newspaper, and more. In 2009, Kamenetz wrote a column called "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education" and, in 2010, a book on the subject entitled ''DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education''. In 2010, she was named a Game Changer in Education by the ''Huffington Post''. As a Fellow at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Tepperman
Jonathan Tepperman is an author, journalist, and expert on international affairs. He is currently the Editor in Chief of ''The Catalyst'' and a Senior Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute''.'' From 2017 to 2020 he was Editor in Chief of ''Foreign Policy''. Before that he served as the Managing Editor of ''Foreign Affairs'', and before that, as Deputy Editor of ''Newsweek International''. His critically-acclaimed first book, The Fix', published in 2017, tells the stories of how countries around the world have solved some of the most difficult challenges. Early life Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Brooklyn with his family. Tepperman is Jewish. Career After studying law and starting his career freelancing in the Middle East, Tepperman first joined ''Foreign Affairs'', the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1998 under Fareed Zakaria. He spent several years at the magazine as a junior editor before moving on to Newsweek in 2006. There he was Deputy Edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Davidson (journalist)
Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist. He was a co-founder of NPR's Planet Money program. Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media. Davidson worked as an economics columnist for ''The New York Times Magazine'' and in 2016 took a position at ''The New Yorker''. Early life and education Davidson's father, Jack Davidson, was a film and television actor, and he grew up in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan's West Village. He attended college at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1992. Adam is an atheist of Jewish descent. Career Davidson worked at PRI as a Middle East correspondent for ''Marketplace'' and then went on to work at NPR as the international business and economics correspondent. In 2008, Davidson, along with Alex Blumberg founded ''Planet Money'' on NPR. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman ( he, מתי פרידמן) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and author. He is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times, and columnist for Tablet magazine. Biography Matti Friedman was born to a Canadian Jewish family and grew up in Toronto. His family attended an Orthodox synagogue. In 1995, he immigrated to Israel at the age of seventeen and settled in Ma'ale Gilboa. His parents and sister joined him a year later. He was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Nahal Brigade. He was deployed to the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict in the late 1990s, spending much of his service at an Israeli position called Outpost Pumpkin, the name of which was to inspire the title of a book he later wrote about his experiences in Lebanon. Following his military service he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Friedman is married with three children and lives in Jerusalem. His wife is the descendant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itamar Moses
Itamar Moses (born 1977) is an American playwright, author, and television writer. Biography Moses grew up in a American Jews, Jewish family in Berkeley, California, Berkeley, California, earned his bachelor's degree at Yale University, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University. He has taught playwriting at both Yale and New York University, and he has written for ''Men of a Certain Age'' and ''Boardwalk Empire''. His most prominent work, the musical The Band's Visit (musical), ''The Band's Visit'', opened on December 8, 2016 at the Atlantic Theater Company. That production won the 2017 Obie Award for Musical Theatre Off-Broadway. After closing on January 9, 2017, the musical moved to Broadway. It began previews on October 7, 2017 and officially opened on November 9, 2017 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. For his work on ''The Band's Visit (musical), The Band's Visit'', Moses won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Works *''Dorothy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Kurshan
Ilana Kurshan is an American-Israeli author who lives in Jerusalem. She is best known for her memoir of Talmud study amidst life as a single woman, a married woman, and a mother, ''If All the Seas Were Ink.'' Personal life Kurshan was raised on Long Island as the daughter of a Conservative rabbi and an executive at UJA-Federation of New York. She graduated from Huntington High School, Harvard College, and Cambridge University, where she studied the History of Science and English Literature. She worked as an editor and literary agent in New York before moving to Jerusalem with her first husband for his rabbinic studies. Although her first marriage quickly crumbled, Kurshan stayed in Jerusalem, working as a translator and foreign-rights agent. In her memoir, she describes how she found a lifeline in the Daf Yomi, the daily study of the Babylonian Talmud, applying its richness to her life as first a single woman, and then as a remarried wife and mother. Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Handler has published several children's books under the name, most notably ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and TV series from 2017 to 2019. Lemony Snicket also serves as both the fictional narrator and a character in ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', as well as the main character in its prequel, a four-part book series titled ''All the Wrong Questions''. In ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', Snicket investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans. The series ''All the Wrong Questions'' is written as a mock-autobiography, and follows Snicket through his childhood and apprenticeship to the Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.) Snicket is also the subject of a fictional autobiography titled '' Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography'' and a pamphlet called ''13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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