יבנה: 80 שנים של זכרונות, בונים את העתיד
Yavneh: 80 Years of Memories, Building the Future
Please join us for this special evening looking back at Camp Yavneh’s amazing history and legacy,
and dreaming about Yavneh’s next 80 years.
Sunday, March 2, 2025, 5-7pm, at The Shefa School
Featuring a special performance from 2024 campers and
a conversation with Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer (President of the Shalom Hartman Institute) and
Jodi Rudoren (Editor-in-Chief of the Forward)
Register at www.campyavneh.salsalabs.org/80innyc
$180 per person
Sponsorship Opportunities Available.
Contact development@campyavneh.org with any questions.
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life, with a focus on issues of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, the relationship between history and memory, and questions of leadership and change in the Jewish community. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast, and the author of dozens of articles and essays about contemporary Jewish life.
Yehuda is trained as a scholar of ancient Judaism and rabbinics with a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and previously served as a member of the faculty at Brandeis University, where he held the inaugural Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation. He lives in New York with his wife Stephanie Ives and their three children.
Jodi Rudoren became editor-in-chief of the Forward in 2019 after more than two decades at The New York Times, including a stint as Jerusalem bureau chief. Jodi is a contributor to the anthology, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-five proposals for the future of our people, and a sought-after public speaker. During the Israel-Hamas war, she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer” show, among others. At The Times, Jodi pioneered the masthead role of Associate Managing Editor for Audience, served on the 2020 committee designing the newsroom of the future, and won an Emmy Award as executive producer of the multimedia series “One in 8 Million.”
She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated cum laude in 1992 from Yale University, where she was managing editor of The Yale Daily News. She and her husband, Gary, combined their surnames in 2006 and live in Montclair, N.J., with their teenaged twins. She is on the board of The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom doing groundbreaking investigative work on gender.
