Yoni Gordis
Yoni Gordis is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Leadership Initiatives (CLI), an operating foundation supporting current and emerging leaders in the global Jewish community. While overseeing program design, including world renowned crafted gatherings, trainings and networking modalities, Yoni works with CLI’s vast network of social entrepreneurs and other Jewish professionals to promote collaboration, innovation and a vibrant field of Jewish leadership.
The Innovation Ecosystem: A 21st Century Organic Jewish Community
Joshua Avedon,
Yoni Gordis,
Esther Kustanowitz,
Naomi Less,
Scott Perlo
Identity and Responsibility,
Teen Approved
Over the past decade or so, the Jewish world has witnessed the emergence of a new landscape of innovative startups. These enterprises have created new entry points to Jewish life, and new ways of building Jewish community. This diverse and vibrant collective of new Jewish initiatives is evolving into an organic communal infrastructure for the Jewish community in the 21st century. This session is a tour though the diverse and vibrant ecosystem driving Jewish innovation across the globe. Meet some of the innovators and find out how their work is changing the Jewish world.
Situational Jewish Leadership
Identity and Responsibility,
Teen Approved
The world offers us myriad leadership models that purport to offer the solution to the complexities of modern day life. More than anything, Judaism's leadership models show us that context and timing are the keys to offering leadership that is relevant, resonant and values-based. It's all holy and quite situational.
Holy Hands and Holy Eyes: The Hebrew Midwives
Text and Thought,
Teen Approved
Explore the characters of the midwives who birthed Moshe and the Jewish people. How did they see things differently than everyone else? What radicalism allowed them to be so different? How do we assimilate their lessons and continue birthing a visionary nation?
In a Rebbe's Footsteps
Mimi Feigelson,
Yoni Gordis
Global History and Culture,
Text and Thought
Yoni Gordis and Mimi Feigelson have been havrutas for many years and were Reb Shlomo Carlebach's last ordination students. Join them for this first public conversation on 21st century rabbis, including text study, stories, songs, and more.
