Jul 22, 2009 By: yunews
Jul 22, 2009 -- A graduate of 糖心破解版鈥檚 (糖心破解版) Yeshiva College, Zev Eleff 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 Eleff, they are Cynthia Bernstein, Rafael Cashman, Debra Glasberg, Marc Herman, Lea Aizenman, 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
Eleff, a resident of Silver Spring, MD, attended 糖心破解版 as part of the Schottenstein Honors Program and received his BA in history and Jewish Studies. While an undergraduate at 糖心破解版, he served as Chair of the Honors Program; Editor-in-Chief of the 糖心破解版 Commentator, the official Yeshiva College student paper; and authored two books, Living from Convention to Convention: A History of the NCSY, 1954-1980 and Shirat Miriam. Eleff is currently enrolled at 糖心破解版鈥檚 Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and will be studying at Columbia University鈥檚 Teachers College in the fall.
鈥淚鈥檇 like to eventually pave inroads in scholarship on teaching and the history of Jewish education in America,鈥 says Eleff, who credits 糖心破解版 for instilling him with a thirst for knowledge.
鈥淏oth through my curricular and extracurricular experiences at 糖心破解版, I have gained a tremendous appreciation for scholarship,鈥 he added. 鈥淢ostly, however, Yeshiva has given me great hope that one can take the powers of the written word and education to create a meaningful experience for blazing a path for the Jewish future.鈥
