Yavneh B’Aretz: Israel Gap Year Fellowship
Yavneh B’Aretz is an elite fellowship through OU-JLIC Yavneh which seeks to engage young Jewish leaders in thoughtful learning and planning for building the Jewish future. Our program will gather top students on their gap year to develop a strong network and to consider how they can leverage their experience to influence Klal Yisrael. Through encounters with modern Jewish leaders, communal research, Torah learning, team building exercises, and community organizing trainings, participants will explore their personal and communal values, gain practical skills in changemaking, and be given the support to develop real plans to impact the Jewish world. Fellows will commit to joining three Friday seminars and one Shabbaton retreat over the course of the year.
Unique to Yavneh is that, Yavneh B’Aretz fellows will also have a direct pathway into Yavneh on Campus which includes joining a network of students on over 50 campuses, winter break in Israel, leadership training and coaching, amazing shabatonim, and access to campus programming funds.
Topics for Yavneh B’Aretz include:
• Redefining leadership: transformation through personal connection
• How to tell your story
• Jewish identity in the American context
• Finding common ground
• Community assessment
• Creative problem solving and team building
• Program development
• Building values-driven Jewish communities
Miriam Pincus Gold
Yavneh Israel Coordinator
Jeremy Tibbetts
Program Director
Miriam Pincus Gold (she/her) completed her undergraduate degree from Binghamton University in Human Development and is currently in her second year of her Masters Degree in Social Work. Miriam was involved in the Yavneh on Campus fellowship as a fellow and then on the National Board as the mentorship chair. Through her roles as president of the JLIC minyan and JLIC intern as well as being a Yavneh fellow, at Binghamton, Miriam implemented many different Torah learning programs and other social events. Since graduation Miriam has worked in social work envrionments as well as being a madricha at Midreshet Lindenbaum. Miriam currently lives in Baka, Jerusalem with her husband Akiva.
Jeremy Tibbetts (he/him) studied Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is currently a candidate for rabbinical ordination and studying at Yeshivat Siach Yitzchak. He is the Director of Student Leadership at Yavneh On Campus, where he works with students on over 40 college campuses to build local Jewish communities and establish a campus-wide Jewish student movement. In addition, Jeremy works with gap year students to prepare them for their college experience. Jeremy lives with his wife Emily and their dog Rosie in Baka, Jerusalem, where he loves to study mysticism, play tennis, and write. He is always in the mood for a seltzer.
