By: Brenda Gevertz, Executive Director, JPRO Network We are entering the Jewish New Year. It is a time for reflection, healing and hope. Surely, we who work in the Jewish community need to take a deep breath and consider the year that has transpired and what we want in the New Year. How will we […]
JPRO Network Blog: Creating Career Paths
Early career professionals understandably question how they can build a career path in the Jewish community. What are the opportunities? How can they grow and advance? What is the message when it appears so many top executives come from outside the field? These are fundamentally important questions for a sector that requires exemplary talent, continuity […]
JPRO Network Blog: Networked for Success
JPRO Network is promoting the development of local professional associations and connecting diverse fields of service because we are all better professionals when we are connected. Networking is often treated as an afterthought in program development and it is likely we have all been to programs where there were minimal opportunities for networking. This neglected […]
JPRO Network Blog: A Light Unto the Nations
The Hasidic story is told that a Rebbe asked his students how they could determine when night ends and day begins. Is it when we can distinguish between a dog and a sheep from a distance? Or is it when we can distinguish between a fig tree and a grapevine? “ No,” and “no,” the […]
JPRO Network Blog: Becoming the Wise Child
We have just recited responses to the four children who ask questions at the Passover Seder: The Wise, the Wicked, the Foolish and the Simple. Just as these children are guided to understand and identify with their history, we, too, must place ourselves in the arc of Jewish history as community leaders. We are required […]
JPRO Network Blog: What’s Your Brand?
Work Above the Bull: What’s Your Brand? Written by Brenda Gevertz, JPRO Network Executive Director At a recent program, the speaker made a point of self-introduction, placing his name on the PowerPoint screen surrounded by the logos of the various schools he had attended. It was impressive and conveyed the message that he was well […]
February 2015 eNews Article
Defining a Profession – A Jewish Professional is… By: Mark S. Young Have we forgotten an important step? As we commence 2015 and continue the debates of today’s Jewish world, I wonder if it’s finally time we properly defined who WE are – the Jewish professional (formerly Jewish communal worker). This is not a new […]
JPRO Network Blog
Work Above the Bull: All in the Family Written by Brenda Gevertz, JPRO Network Executive Director We hope you are enjoying reading the latest issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service, “All in the Family: Diversity in the Jewish Community.” As an outgrowth of conversations with our colleagues at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at […]