Joshua
Weinberg
Vice President for Israel and Reform Zionism
Union For Reform Judaism
Pedagogies of Peoplehood Research Fellowship
Peoplehood Cohort 1
A paid, ten-month virtual fellowship for master educators to research and develop educational practices that enrich the field of Jewish Peoplehood education and cultivate Jewish collective consciousness.
January 29-30, 2025
February 4, February 18, & March 4, 2025 | 12:00-2:00 ET
March 18, 2025 | 11:00-3:00 ET
MARCH 25, APRIL 8 & 23, 2025 | 12:00-2:00 ET
May 6, 2025 | 11:00-3:00 ET
May 20, June 4 & 17, 2025 | 12:00-2:00 ET
July-August, 2025
September 2, 2025 | 11:00-2:00pm ET
September 16; October 21 & 28; November 5 |12:00-2:00pm ET
November 18, 2025
March 18,2026
Adam Eilath is the Head of School at Ronald C Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City. Adam previously worked at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco and also held positions at Kehillah Jewish High School, the Nesiya Institute and MiMizrach Shemesh. He holds an MA in Jewish Thought from Tel Aviv University, a BA in Jewish Studies from McGill University and has certificates from the Shalom Hartman Institute, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Yeshiva University. Adam is a leader in the American Sephardic Community and is involved in a number of initiatives that aim to build capacity and awareness of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry. He lives in Oakland with his wife and two daughters and is an accomplished open water swimmer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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.
Saadiah McIntosh (he/him) is excited to join the M² team as a Program Operations Director. Hailing from New York, NY, he holds a BA in American Studies and History from Brandeis University. Previously, Saadiah worked at a kosher catering startup /restaurant, and as a Program Manager at Repair the World NY. Most recently, he served as a Senior Program Manager at a nonprofit that provides minority and women owned small businesses with pro bono assistance in efforts to expand their enterprises. In his free time, Saadiah enjoys singing, posturing as a pop culture connoisseur and occasionally engaging in and organizing learning opportunities with friends and family. After nearly 2 years away, Saadiah is excited to jump back into the Jewish nonprofit sector with M² . He currently lives in Washington Heights, NYC.
To request more information for the upcoming program, please submit your email address below. We’ll be in touch shortly.
The application for the 2025 fellowship is September 1, 2024.
In order to maximize the gain from the program and from the combined wisdom in the room, we expect fellows to fully participate in all aspects of the program; however, you can miss up to two sessions for an unexpected circumstance.
We believe in creating ideologically pluralistic spaces. The cohort will include participants of all backgrounds.
After the completion of the Pedagogies of Peoplehood Research Fellowship, fellows will share their work with the larger Jewish educational field during an online symposium that they will help develop.
This program is a living laboratory of Jewish Peoplehood and as such we welcome Jewish Educators from across the globe, providing they are able to meet at midday ET.
Apply here. Please expect to invest at least two hours to complete the application. You are welcome to work on the essay questions in advance, which can be found here.
The fellowship is designed for you to take time to reflect on yourself as an educator. You will also be working with the faculty members, who are immersed in the world of pedagogy and can help you become even more articulate about educational practices and pedagogies.
Fellows will receive $2000 over the course of the fellowship. They will receive $1000 after submitting the first draft of their research paper and $1000 after submitting their final draft and resource.
The program will be conducted in English but for those who feel more comfortable in Hebrew, it will be possible to write their final deliverables in that language. Also, all the faculty speak Hebrew fluently.
M²’s Research Fellowships are run with support from the Covenant Foundation, and Taube Philanthropies.