Leadership
Training
 Isralight's
5th Annual Avraham HaLevi Jerusalem
Rabbinic Enrichment
Conference
July
13 - 20, 2009
A key
element of the year- long Avraham Halevi Isralight Rabbinic
Enrichment Fellowship, the summer program in Jerusalem, once
again will bring together a select group of young rabbis from
across the US, South Africa and Israel to participate in a
series of training initiatives and professional enrichment
, under the direction of Rabbi Sam Shor, Isralight's Director
of Community and Leadership Development.
Rabbi
David Aaron, Isralight's Dean and Founder, and Rav Binny Freedman,
Isralight's Director have developed a unique curriculum to
address and clarify many of the fundamental, challenging,
and often confusing issues of Jewish belief. The Avraham Halevi
Jerusalem Rabbinic Enrichment Conference provides its participants
with innovative and effective ways to communicate these ideas
in a compelling and inspiring manner. Fellows will be introduced
to many of the fundamental texts that form the basis of Isralight's
educational philosophy and approach.
Highlights
of the Jerusalem Summer Conference will include:
- Think tank sessions to network and share
ideas with colleagues
- Discussing solutions to many of the challenging
issues that contemporary Jewish leaders must address
- Opportunities to study and explore many
of the essential writings and teachings of Rabbi Avraham
Yitzchak HaKohain Kook zt'l, and Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi
Soloveitchik zt'l
- Experiencing the unique Isralight story-walks
and seminars in Jerusalem 's Old City , that have captured
the imagination of thousands from all over the world.
This
summer we will bring together an outstanding group of participants
representing both established as well as up-and-coming rabbinic
talent from all facets of the rabbinate - pulpit, education,
and communal leadership.
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Summer
2009 Rabbinic Internship at Isralight
The
Isralight Institute in the Old City
June
22 - July 2, 2009
Isralight
Summer Rabbinic Internships will offer a hand-picked group
of rabbinical students an opportunity to study, explore, and
hone their skills at the Isralight Institute in the Old City
of Jerusalem. Select interns may be offered continued internships
and additional on-going field work at Isralight programs in
North America upon their return to North America .
Rabbi
David Aaron , Isralight's Founder
and Dean, and Rav Binny Freedman ,
Isralight's Director, have developed a unique methodology
to address and clarify many of the fundamental, challenging,
and often confusing issues of Jewish belief. The Isralight
Summer Rabbinic Internships will train future rabbinic leaders
in innovative and effective ways to communicate these ideas
in a compelling and inspiring manner. Additionally, it will
expose participants to many of the fundamental texts that
form the basis of Isralight's all-embracing educational philosophy
and approach.
Program
Highlights will include:
-
Seminars will enhance skill in communication,
oration, and informal counseling, honing participants'
talents and abilities. Participants will have ample opportunities
for practical hands-on informal hadracha (counseling and
teaching) with Jewish adults from diverse backgrounds
at the Isralight Institute program, and will receive constructive
analysis and feedback.
- Interns
will explore many of the essential writings of Rabbi Abraham
Isaac Kook, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and other giants
of Jewish thought under the tutelage of Isralight teachers.
Includes
full subsidies for housing and meals
For
more information or to apply to the Isralight Summer Rabbinic
Internships program, please submit your resume together with
cover letter to Rabbi Sam Shor, Isralight's Director of Community
and Leadership Development via email sam@isralight
.org or fax
to 212-594-4808 .
Only applicants who submit both a cover letter and resume
will be considered.
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Torah
Insights from Isralight's Rabbinic Enrichment Fellows
Bo
5767/2007 by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild
Vayakhel
5767/2006 by Rabbi Avi Heller
Ki
Tisah 5766/2005 by Rabbi Ira Ebbin
Vayishlach
5766/2005 by Rabbi Elie Wienstock
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