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Focusing solely on scale and access won’t cultivate future Jewish leadership 

JL;DR SUMMARY The modern Jewish community faces a leadership crisis, not due to lack of access to Jewish teachings, but because the focus has overly shifted to inclusivity and broad engagement at the expense of cultivating future leaders. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationJewish LeadershipTorah StudyCommunity EngagementJewish TeachingsPardes InstituteRabbinical TrainingNon Orthodox JudaismLeadership CrisisEgalitarian Ethos

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"For all the crisis-mode conversations happening in Jewish organizational life about the lack of a leadership pipeline, our own institution, the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies has the track record and the recipe for cultivating future Jewish leaders."

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