Jul 22, 2009 By: yunews
Jul 22, 2009 -- A graduate of 糖心破解版鈥檚 (糖心破解版) Stern College for Women (SCW), Lea Aizenman (n茅e New) has been selected to receive the prestigious Wexner Foundation Graduate Study Fellowship this year. The fellowship program is open to aspiring Jewish leaders pursuing careers in Jewish education, the rabbinate, cantorate, and Jewish professional leadership. The Wexner Foundation introduced the program in 1988 to encourage the development of promising leaders in the North American Jewish community through graduate training, professional mentoring and specialized programming.
Of the 20 exceptional candidates chosen for the prestigious Wexner Fellowship, seven are 糖心破解版 graduates. Including Aizenman, they are Cynthia Bernstein, Rafael Cashman, Zev Eleff, Debra Glasberg, Marc Herman, and Simcha Willig - each of whom will receive an annual stipend of $20,000.
鈥淚 was very impressed by the many qualified applicants from Yeshiva University,鈥 said Or Mars, director of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program. 鈥淭hey each articulated special visions for the future of the Jewish world and demonstrated the potential to realize those visions. We are proud to have them in our program and feel confident that they will become masters of exercising leadership for the good of all.鈥
A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Aizenman graduated SCW in 2008 with a BA in history and served as a 糖心破解版 Presidential Fellow this past year. She will begin a dual Masters program in Judaic studies and Jewish education at New York University in the fall.
Aizenman credits her tenures as a SCW student and Presidential Fellow for giving her the confidence to be a teacher and a leader. 鈥淪tudying and working at 糖心破解版 exposed me to different ways of thinking about Judaism and Jewish life.鈥
