DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION IS JANUARY 31, 2011

Dear Friends:

    I am writing again to enlist your assistance in identifying and recommending candidates for the International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship which will take place in Israel at the Ohalo Manor located on Yam Kinneret on June 12-20, 2011.  The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, sponsored by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, provides an intensive experience in Jewish living, learning and leadership for young men and women from around the world between the ages of 25-40 who show serious interest in Jewish culture and demonstrate a potential for individual growth and communal leadership.

    The Memorial Foundation has organized twenty-three Fellowships since 1987 in Western and Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, Australia, Southeast Asia, South Africa, South America and Israel.  Following each of the past seminars, Fellows returned to their communities and took steps to assume leadership positions in their communities.

The Fellowship will deal with the following themes: The Future Profile of the Jewish People; Rejuvenating the Zionist Narrative in Israel and the Diaspora; Reconfiguring our Covenental Community With Contemporary Jewish Society: The View from Diaspora; Redemption in Jewish Thought: Past, Present and Future; Jewish  Peoplehood and the State of Israel: The Parameters of Their Congruence and/or Incompatability; What Should be the Guiding Vision for the Next Generation of Leadership in Building Ourselves and the Jewish Community.

    Faculty in the past included some of the most distinguished academics and scholars from around the Jewish world.  Faculty at the Israeli Nahum Goldmann Fellowship will include, among others, Prof. Saul Berman, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Law; Dr. Steven Bayme, Director, Dept. of Contemporary Jewish Life, American Jewish Committee; Prof. Ruth Gavison, Professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Prof. Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University; Prof. Jack Wertheimer, Professor of Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary; Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University; Prof. Benjamin Ish Shalom, Rector, Beit Morasha, Prof. Stephen Donshik, Professor, Hebrew University’s International Leadership Program and Dr. Rina Rosenberg.

    We believe that the International Nahum Goldmann Fellowship in Israel in June, 2011 will be as successful as the previous twenty-two that have preceded it.

    To achieve the goals of the Fellowship, we need your help.  May we request that you identify appropriate candidates for this program and reproduce and distribute the attached application and tentative program to them.  They can also request application forms from us:   The deadline date for receipt of applications is January 31, 2011.

Location: Yam Kinneret, Israel

costs: Room and board for those chosen as fellows is provided by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.  The fellows themselves and/or the local community or organizations they represent must cover travel expenses.

Registration:Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 50 Broadway, 34^th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10004, Fax: (212) 42 56 60 2, Email: office@mfjc.org

Organizer: Nahum Goldmann Fellowship