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Steven Jacobson graduated from the Hornstein Program in 1993, with
a concentration in Jewish Advocacy from the Perlmutter Institute
for Jewish Advocacy. While at Hornstein, Steve interned first with
the Anti-Defamation League in Boston and then at the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Rhode Island. He grew up in the Chicago area
and arrived at Hornstein with a BA in Political Science from the
University of Kansas.
Upon graduating from Hornstein, Steve returned to Kansas to become
Director of the KU Hillel Foundation. In 1996-97, he was a Fellow
at the Melton Center for Diaspora Jewish Education at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, where he gained proficiency in Hebrew,
studied the philosophy of education and adult education. While in
Jerusalem, Steve had the privilege of being in the last class of
renowned Torah educator, Nechama Leibowitz, just prior to her death.
After a year in Israel, Steve returned to the KU Hillel Foundation
for two years, before becoming, in 1999, Director of the Dorot Fellowship
in Israel at the Dorot Foundation in Providence, RI. Today, Steve
relates to the foundation’s Israel and Jewish-related grant-making
programs and retains primary responsibility of the Dorot
Fellowship program.
Additionally, Steve is the Project Director of the Harold, Sylvia
and Lewis Friedman Project in International Jewish Communal Service,
a project of the Hornstein Program. In this role, Steve is constructing
course-work that relates to overseas work in Jewish communal service
and is seeking to develop opportunities for students to travel and
work in Jewish communities overseas.
Having grown up with little understanding of Judaism and almost
no knowledge of the Jewish communal infrastructure, Steve says that
“the Hornstein Program not only jump-started my career in
Jewish communal service, it introduced me to the skill sets I have
needed to be successful. I continue to learn a great deal about
Judaism, about our community’s organizational life and about
how to be a successful practitioner. And all that I learn builds
upon the foundation that was created for me at Hornstein.”
Steve lives in Providence with his wife and two daughters.
If you have any questions
for Steve about the Hornstein Program write to:
smj@brandeis.edu
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