Tag: René Cassin Fellowship Program

February 4, 2020

Joy in the Rabbinate

sid.schwarz Articles Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Beth Israel, Clergy Leadership Incubator, Finding a Spiritual Home, Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network, PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, Rabbinate, René Cassin Fellowship Program, RRC, Vocation

There is a delicious irony in being asked to write the lead article for an issue devoted to “Joy in the Rabbinate” as I mark 40 years since being ordained. I say that because if one were to read the essay that accompanied my application to RRC in 1975 it could well have been titled […]

October 15, 2012

New International Fellowship Program on Judaism and Human Rights

sid.schwarz Articles activism, Fellowship program, human rights, Israel, Jewish community, Jewish professionals, Makom, NGO, RCFP, René Cassin, René Cassin Fellowship Program, social justice

Last week an application process was launched for a brand new program called the René Cassin Fellowship Program (RCFP). With hubs in New York, London and Jerusalem, the RCFP will select 36 outstanding Jewish young professionals, ages 25-35. The year-long program of study, travel and hands-on impact projects does not take the place of one’s […]