A 20-year Rhodes Scholar type plan: Helping secure the future of Israel, Jews - opinion Professor Seymour Fox, one of the most influential figures in modern Jewish education, dean of the School of Education at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1967–1981), where the School of Education was later named in his honor, was the founder of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, a major center for Jewish educational research and leadership training.President of the Mandel Foundation, he was also the architect of the Jerusalem Fellows program (launched in the early 1980s), an elite leadership development fellowship for experienced Jewish educators from abroad. Fellows spent extended periods in Jerusalem studying educational philosophy, Jewish thought, leadership, and institutional change, then returned to leadership roles in their Jewish communities.A visionary, a mover and shaker, a disruptor, a brilliant fundraiser, Seymour co-opted significant leaders and philanthropists to his cause.I was extremely fortunate to be selected for the Jerusalem Fellows, and being surrounded by the best and the brightest on the program, which took me way out of my ghetto comfort zone on the backwater slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, I was able to thrive in an environment which empowered me to exponentially sharpen my knowledge base and practice, develop my leadership skills and levels of confidence, establish a cohort of mentors – and essentially, jet-fueled my career.I thought about the Jerusalem Fellows program, which still impacts Jewish education, after attending an inspirational lecture by Dr.
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