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Wexner Alumni Virtual Experience (WAVE)

Wexner Field Fellowship and Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program Alumni

11:30am EDT

*COVID and Year-in-Review: Alumni-Led Electives* A Fundraiser and a Grantmaker Walk into a (Coffee) Bar: Perspectives in Light of the PandemicJennifer Weinstock (WGF/DS Class 26) • Adina Dubin Barkinskiy (WGF/DS Class 15) Leading Large Synagogues During the Pandemic: What Have We Learned?Joel Sisenwine (WGF/DS Class 3) Now Is the Time to Go Big on Jewish MindfulnessJosh Feigelson (WGF/DS Class 14) • Michal Smart (WGF/DS Class 6) The Pandemic, Friends, and Kiddush PeopleJon Spira-Savett (WGF/DS Class 3) Torah in a Time of Pandemic: Theologies for Our Time of CrisisRachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi (WGF/DS Class 3)

8:15am EDT

Liberal Morning MinyanAndy Koren (WGF/DS Class 1)

9:00am EDT

*Alumni Led Electives* Conveying Presence on ZoomRebecca Joy Fletcher (WGF/DS Class 9) From Consumers to Producers: Collaborative Projects for Challenging Jewish High School Students to Reinvent their Jewish FuturesGordon Bernat-Kunin (WGF/DS Class 1) Looking Back and Moving Ahead on Jewish - Indigenous RelationsDavid S. Koffman (WGF/DS Class 17) Taking a First Climb of TWF Curriculum Design TreeTali Zelkowicz (WGF/DS Class 15) Up Schitt's CreekRobin Axelrod (WGF/DS Class 8)

11:30am EDT

Difficult Conversations: Alumni Area Electives Part I Structures for Safety and EquityJosh Cypess (WGF/DS Class 9) The Competing Values of Jewish Day School and Bettering the WorldRachel Lerner (WGF/DS Class 21) The Culture-Shaping Responsibilities of Jewish Leaders at a Time of Intense PolarizationDavid Rosenn (WGF/DS Class 5) The Jewish Future Will Not Be Funded (Like the Past)Jill Jacobs (WGF/DS Class 11) • Lila Corwin Berman (WGF/DS Class 12) Why We Are Coming Apart -- The Parallel Framings/Conversations of Israeli and American JewsEd Rettig (WGF/DS Class 2) Woke vs Liberal: Do We Have to Be ”All In”?Asher Lopatin (WGF/DS Class 5)

4:00pm EDT

*Difficult Conversations: Alumni Area Electives Part II* Building a Wexner "Plurasphere" in the RoomJon Spira-Savett (WGF/DS Class 3) • Shani Bechhofer (WGF/DS Class 3) Eilu v'Eilu: These and These Are Words of the Living GodJoyce Newmark (WGF/DS Class 1) Jews Are Great Talkers. How About Our Listening?Rebecca Joy Fletcher (WGF/DS Class 9) Resetting the Table’s “PURPLE”: Screening and Skill-Building for Difficult Conversations Across Political DividesMelissa Weintraub (WGF/DS Class 14) Why Do We Call Them Criminals?: Religious Frameworks for Rethinking Criminal JusticeBarat Ellman (WGF/DS Class 12)