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Bernard Rodkin Fellowship

The Bernard Rodkin Professional Development Israel Fellowship

The Bernard Rodkin Professional Development Israel Fellowship provides an opportunity to increase one’s knowledge and understanding of Israeli society and its social welfare system, and to enhance community organization skills and career development. The award provides a 10-day educational seminar to Europe and Israel. Bernard Rodkin, z”l, led a very private and simple life. As an adult he earned college degrees after serving in WWII and had a deep love for Israel. He had amassed a significant sum of savings and without any beneficiaries, he sought guidance on how he could make a meaningful contribution. Guided and assisted by Herman Markowitz, then CEO of the United Israel Appeal, Mr. Rodkin established a fund for professionals to experience an Israel seminar to enrich their knowledge and careers. Travel for the seminar will take place during June, 2016.

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Previous Bernard Rodkin Professional Development Israel Fellowship Winners

2015
Lori Hoch Steifel and Mark S. Young
2014
Amanda Glincher, Elisabeth Kostin, Rachel Siegel and Chris Strom
2013
Matthew Goldberg, KB Goodkin, Joanne Lippert and Becky Voorwinde
2012
Josh Donner, Adam Kolett & Stephanie Rosenau
2010
Reva Feldman & Lori Shusterman
2008
Stuart Butwinick, Laura Gottlieb, Eve Samson & Joseph Selesny
2007
Cheryl Carne, Bari Elias, Leon Weinerman & Maureen Wise
2005
Sam Sokolove
2004
Amy Wagner Simpson
2003
Sara Schlossberg & Karen Taylor

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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

Marge Piercy, Circles on the Water, 1982. ... See MoreSee Less