Korach – Leadership Lessons from Moses
This week’s Torah portion is called Korah (with a guttural “kh” at the end) after the name of the Bond villain in the storyline. It’s a fairly gruesome section of the Torah, starting with an insurrection by Korah and ending with Korah, his 250 followers, and all of their families being swallowed up by the […]
Flight, Fight, or Unite – a talk by Guy Winterbotham
This is a sketchnote from Guy Winterbotham’s talk on the steps to get a team from “The Circus of the Damned” to a place of healthy conflict where innovation and ideas flourish. The link to Guy’s slideshare is here.
Sh’lach L’cha – Fear-mongers and Slanderers
Who knew that if you only took the time out to read and think, you would find that the problems we have in society today existed millennia ago! Sh’lach L’cha talks about, among many other things, fear-mongering and slander and their impact on the court of public opinion. The reaction of the Israelites to the […]
Birthright
Early one morning last week my daughter got on a plane. for a 10 day birthright trip to Israel sponsored by the Jewish Federation. The holiest site to the Jewish people is called Hakotel HaMa’aravi or The Wailing Wall. This is a small section of the Western Wall of the Second Temple and is the […]