M² Israeli Alumni Gathering
Israel-based alumni of M²’s Senior Educators Cohort and Mabat joined us at M² Jerusalem for a night of connection and conversation.
M² Jerusalem Office, Israel
Israel-based M² Mabat and SEC alumni
Thursday, July 20, 2023
4-7 pm
ALUMNI EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Together with M² faculty, attendees:
Welcoming reception
Icebreaker questions
Facilitated discussion in the context of M² work with M² faculty members
Shuki Taylor, Kiva Rabinky, Shlomit Naim Naor, Clare Goldwater, and Ayal Beer
Break
Engaging in Israeli/Jewish text study and processing group
Shlomit Naim Noar
Dinner
Summary and farewell
M² Hosts and Facilitators
Ayal
Beer
Israel Program Director, M²
Ayal Beer is the Israel Program Director at M². An experienced Jewish educator, Ayal has been managing a pre-Army leadership educational program focused on Jewish Israeli identity and social change since 2017. Prior to that, he participated in training educational staff for a variety of Jewish organizations in the U.S and Canada for over 5 years. Ayal earned a B.A in Social Work at Bar Ilan University and a Masters degree in Talmud and Religious Law from Shechter Institute. A licensed tour guide, Ayal lives with his wife and four kids in Kibbutz Hannaton in the Lower Galilee and is a graduate of SEC 1.
Clare
Goldwater
Chief Strategy Officer, M²
Clare Goldwater is a Jewish educator and leadership coach with expertise in professional and organizational development and experiential education. Working in close partnership with a wide range of organizations, Clare oversees the development, dissemination of M²’s approach and ideas about experiential Jewish education, through consulting projects to Jewish organizations, publications, curricula materials, and more. Clare has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, an MA in Jewish Education from Hebrew University, and a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. She also holds passports from those three countries and lives in Jerusalem with her family.
Schedule time to speak with me about:
- Strategizing and managing change
- Developing and refining vision
- Doing things differently, imagining “what ifs”
- Trends and big shifts in the field of Jewish education
Shuki
Taylor
CEO, M²
As the CEO of M², Shuki helps provide educators and organizations in Israel, North America, and Europe with knowledge, tools, and skills to advance the theory and practice of experiential Jewish education. Previously, Shuki served as director of Service Learning and Experiential Education at Yeshiva University, where he founded the Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education and a range of programs mobilizing college students to serve underprivileged communities worldwide. A Schusterman Fellow, Shuki studied Jewish philosophy, education, and scriptwriting.
Schedule time to speak with me about:
- Making innovative and creative shifts from ‘how we’ve always done it’ to ‘how we can do it’
- Managing resistance, harnessing resources, and cultivating motivation to facilitate change
- Anchoring educational innovation in multi-disciplinary and Jewishly grounded perspectives