Originally written for UpStart's audience, April 2021: For many members of our community, racial violence is a constant and persistent threat, reinforced and re-experienced when murders by public authorities – such as George Floyd’s – are committed and then recorded. This trauma is not eased by the conviction of Derek Chauvin.But in the struggle for justice, one in …
Press release originally published on eJewish Philanthropy As long-standing Jewish institutions and communal leadership face the current health and financial crises, UpStart has redesigned and relaunched its flagship Change Accelerator program for innovation-minded professionals – otherwise known as intrapreneurs – in the Jewish communal field. The Change Accelerator will gather select cohorts of professionals to learn how to …
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UpStart's Change Accelerator launches nationally in just two weeks. A program for bold institutional leaders across North America, the program offers entrepreneurship-based learning experiences that increase their authority and ability to create systems-level change, grow their expertise, and expand the network of intrapreneurs. In addition to crafting the messaging for this prestigious program, setting us …
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This month, the Jews of Color (JOC) Career Development Program launches. I was grateful for the opportunity to not only be a part of the team that supports its nationwide launch, but also to design its logo and materials. I designed the logo in collaboration with Lina of Talina Design – the logo, and the visual …
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UpStart's Managing Director of Learning & Design, Taylor Epstein, produced this timely and invaluable guide on facilitating activities in the virtual world. In an era of programmatic pivots to online-only and the associated Zoom fatigue, designing engaging experiences is a tool we cannot afford not to have in our belt. Click below to download!
"Beit Shammai hold: borei means that God will create in the future, and Beit Hillel hold: borei also means that He has created in the past." - Masechet Berakhot 52b Hidden in today’s daf which is mostly an argument about when to say the havdalah blessing (before the wine? after the spices? what about grace …
Personal Branding is one of my very favorite topics, and last week I had the pleasure of teaching it in a workshop for a group of colleagues in Denver. Take a look at just a few of the items we explored in this two-part series. More to come from Pt II, including how to design …
Once upon a [verrrrry long] time, my mom and I sang folk music together. For a couple years there we did local gigs and had an amazing time. Mom is the trained singer here, which you can clearly tell in the recording below. I just had a blast singing harmony alongside her, in my not …
I originally wrote this for Facebook, as a comment on an article that declared: divorce does not equal the failure of a marriage. It received an overwhelming, loving response, so I want to share it here. March 2019. C and I announced our divorce. When we told our loved ones and friends, they responded with, …
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste …
