I’m thrilled to announce that my friend and PresenTense Magazine editor/publisher Ariel Beery was named a finalist in the Charles R. Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation competition run by Brandeis University, alongside Anita Diamant (author of “The Red Tent”) and Shmuley Boteach (author of everything else).
You can read Ariel’s proposal, "Translating Judaism for the Post-Digital Age: Creative Zionism and a Renewed Jewish People," here.
These additional details are from the JTA.
Applicants were asked to come up with an innovation in Judaism and develop it with proposals for changing the way Jews think about themselves and their community. The winner will receive a visiting professorship at Brandeis and two years to develop the idea into a book that Brandeis will publish. The finalists are Jerusalem Post editorial page editor and columnist Saul Singer; Harvard doctoral candidate Yehuda Kurtzer; author Anita Diamant; Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the founder of the Jewish Values Network; and Ariel Beery, the publisher of PresenTense magazine.
They were selected from 231 applicants, including 49 rabbis and from such countries as Israel, Italy, India, Australia and Sweden. The five will present their proposals Feb. 24 at a symposium for members of the Brandeis community and Boston-area Jewish leaders.
Ariel, together with Aharon Horwitz, also created the PresenTense Institute, which is now also seeking applicants for this upcoming summer. Applications available–in Hebrew and English–here.
Kol Hakavod, Ariel! And best of luck with the symposium…
Congratulations to the five finalists and all other contestants.
The Bronfman Big Idea Series is still running on my blog, so if you would like to read some of the submissions or add your own, please stop by.
Here’s the link.
Maya Norton
The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy
I couldn’t agree more with Muffti and Chutzpah–Shmuley’s so overexposed in every conceivable industry, can he really still be seen as a Jewish innovator?
In any case, I’m very excited for Ariel.
Muffti hopes that Ariel wins this. But he even more hopes that Shmuely doesn’t. The last thing we need is anotheradvertisement book by that guy.
Boteach has a contract to do a show on Oprah and Friends Radio, what honor could possibly be higher than that other than the Noble Peace Prize?
http://www2.oprah.com/xm/sboteach/sboteach_main.jhtml
Hope you win Ariel!!!
Congratulations, Ariel. Well written and presented.
You can read Ariel’s proposal at http://www.arielbeery.com
anyone know anything about yehuda kurtzer’s idea or for that matter any of the other ones?