Past Events

Gathering through Story: Laura Wexler, The Stoop Storytelling Series, and Terri Lee Freeman, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American Culture & History with Rabbi Rachel Sabbath Beit-Halachmi of Har Sinai Oheb Shalom Congregation

Gathering in Spirit: Rabbi Ariana Katz, Hinenu, and Father Grey Maggiano, Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill with Rabbi Chai Posner of Beth Tfiloh Congregation.

Gathering in Support: Ben Weinberg, Founder of Encircle Grief Support App and David Fox-Estrin, Founder of Together We Remember with Rabbi Dana Saroken of Beth El Congregation.

View the recording of Gathering Around Culture: Kerry Hawk Lessard, Native American LifeLines and Josh Kohn, Center for Cultural Vibrancy with Rabbi Josh Gruenberg of Chizuk Amuno.

View the recording of  Gathering at the Table: Irena Stein, Alma Cocina Latina and Juan Webster, Sagamore Pendry Baltimore with Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen  of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.

A recording of our 4th Annual Shoshana S. Cardin Leadership Symposium, featuring Rabbi Mike Uram.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our June 2nd program on Gratitude featured Dr. Zackary Berger, Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine at Hopkins and Core Faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Lee Hendler, co-founder and president of the Jewish Grandparents Network.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our May 18th program on Wisdom featured Dr. Jay Perman, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland and Pastor Terris King,  Pastor of The Liberty Grace Church of God.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our April 27 program on Integrity featured Marc Terrill, President of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and Beth Blauer, Associate Vice Provost for Public Sector Innovation at Johns Hopkins University.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our March 30 program on Compassion featured Cassie Motz, Executive Director, CollegeBound, and Alicia Wilson, Vice President of Economic Development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our March 2 program on Courage featured Timoth David Copney and Brian Ganek.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our February 2 program on Curiosity featured Sarah Hemminger, Executive Director, THREAD and Thibault Manekin.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning presents the Rina L. Janet Leadership Middot Conversations, a seven-part moderated series featuring Baltimore based leaders reflecting on their personal experiences of a specific middah (character strength). The highlighted middot include: compassion, courage, curiosity, gratitude, humility, integrity, and wisdom.

Our January 19 program on Humility featured Randi Pupkin, Executive Director, Art with a Heart, and Bill McCarthy, Executive Director, Catholic Charities of Baltimore.

onBOARDing program featuring leadership expert, Ann Cohen. We are all on a leadership journey together, and everyone brings something different to the “table”.

A recording of our 3rd Annual Shoshana S. Cardin Leadership Symposium, featuring Rabbi Shais Rishon (MaNishtana).

A recording of our ACHARAI Class VIII Siyum celebration on June 16th, 2021.

Watch this 18-minute highlight video of our April Being Jewish in America program featuring Aliza Kline, CEO of OneTable and Hayim Herring, author of Connecting Generations.

With Dr. Erica Brown
A four-part series for professional and lay leaders to come as pairs (or in small groups). Fostering lay and professional partnerships that can get past the uncertainty and despair of the moment to generate creativity, solidarity, meaning and hope for a better future. We will study what ancient wisdom and contemporary thinkers have to say about leading in the wilderness.
Presented Thursdays, January 21 and 28, February 4 and 11.

Recordings of the event are not public, however these resources were used in the workshops and are public:

The Hard Side of Change Management
Good Leadership is About Communicating Why
Leadership is a Conversation
The Top 10 Reasons Why Leaders Should Celebrate Wins
Why Leadership is so Exhausting – and What to Do about It
How to Lead When your Team is Exhausted, and You are too

Originally presented: January 26, 2021

Leadership Lab Series: Being Jewish in America, we explored our complicated and always evolving relationship to Israel as Jews and as Americans. What competing values may be informing our views, and how do they impact our ability to find common ground even in our own community?

With Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Rabbi Anna Levin Rosen, Rabbi and Executive Director of the University of Chicago Hillel, as they shared their experiences as leaders working to bridge divides and honor differences in our ongoing dialogue over Israel. The evening will be facilitated by Dr. Bill Robinson, Executive Director of Na’aleh.

Originally presented: October 20, 2020

In this inaugural session of our Leadership Lab Series: Being Jewish in America, we explored the American Jewish experience, focusing on what it means that (most) Jews have become white with all its privileges and price, while our Jewish communities are increasingly
racially diverse.
With Cheryl Cook, the Executive Director of Avodah, and Yavilah McCoy, CEO of DIMENSIONS, Inc., with their experiences as leaders working to build more inclusive Jewish communities, more equitable power structures in our organizations, and a more racially just world. The evening was facilitated by Bill Robinson, Executive Director of Na’aleh.

Originally presented August 6, 2020
A message from Ruth Messinger, Consultant, Jewish Social Justice