Living Jewish Learning

How Might We Learn Sustainability from Hot Dudes Reading?

Before running off to work with a high net-worth client, Jeremy Nowak pauses to offer me, his next door neighbor, some free advice.

Hevrutahpreneurship: Partnering for Learning and Leading

Solopreneurship, the practice of single-handedly starting and leading an organization, is a celebrated American entrepreneurial approach.

No Success without Learning to Fail

“Fail Forward” is the mantra of entrepreneurs. Take risks. You will fail, guaranteed. Learn from it. Once a little smarter, boldly launch again. Instead of meeting failure with crimson shame and pink slips, entrepreneurs believe, as Robert Kennedy did, “to achieve greatness, you have to fail greatly.”

Guest Blogger: People are More Important than Ideas

Design thinking may be a new tool, but the idea that empathy makes us better leaders and innovators is ancient knowledge. Rabbis can lead the way in the Jewish community and in organizations, using the empathetic skills of pastoral counseling and applying that same skill set to organizational leadership. By utilizing design thinking, religious leaders can create new programs and initiatives in their own congregations.

Lisa Colton, Master of the Entrepreneurial Sashay

To thrive in changing times, Lisa Colton, founder and President of Darim Online, elegantly demonstrates the “two-step” of entrepreneurial leadership.

Guest Blogger: If There is Flour, There is Torah! Rabbis as Entrepreneurs

Even though a rabbi’s major focus isn’t to make money, entrepeneurship can certainly help spread the messages of Torah—often in unusual ways.

Going the Way of Profit

Launching a Jewish start-up? Todd Shotz says there are signficant advantages to going the way of a for-profit company.

Fundraising: Not Rocket Science

Learning fundraising on the fly is actually possible, according to Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Executive Director of Mechon Hadar.

Stay Strong for Your Startup

Rabbi Sara Luria says there are four things you can do to stay strong in the early days of a startup.

Adapt (Not Just Adopt): A Conversation with Hebrew University Professor Jonathan Mirvis about Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship for Jewish Education

Do we adopt "entrepreneurial ideas" wholesale, or tinker with them to reflect on our projects of social value? Cyd Weissman interviews Hebrew University professor, Jonathan Mirvis to find out.

Living Jewish Learning

How Might We Learn Sustainability from Hot Dudes Reading?

Hevrutahpreneurship: Partnering for Learning and Leading

No Success without Learning to Fail

Guest Blogger: People are More Important than Ideas

Lisa Colton, Master of the Entrepreneurial Sashay

Guest Blogger: If There is Flour, There is Torah! Rabbis as Entrepreneurs

Going the Way of Profit

Fundraising: Not Rocket Science

Stay Strong for Your Startup

Adapt (Not Just Adopt): A Conversation with Hebrew University Professor Jonathan Mirvis about Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship for Jewish Education

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Pages

This is the archival site for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. It is no longer updated.

For the new site, please visit https://www.rrc.edu.