Alumni and Friends

Logan Woodard (’17) and Joel Finkelstein (’17) have been accepted into the Ezra Fellowship, which provides up to three years of exclusive training in pluralistic Jewish education, including immersive Jewish learning, seminars in experiential Jewish education and career coaching. Logan is the current director of Jewish Student Life with Hillel at UB and has agreed to become their Ezra Fellow for the next two years, while Joel has agreed to become Mizzou Hillel’s new Ezra Fellow and Program and Engagement Associate.

Nicole Caine (’17), featured in our 2016 newsletter, accepted a new position as a Development Associate at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Nicole wrote her honors thesis at UB on shalom bayit (“peace in the home”) and its relation to women's empowerment and disempowerment in the Jewish community and then completed an MA in Public Administration at Syracuse University.

We wish all of our alumni great success!

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