Thank you for your interest in nominating a Jewish communal leader for participation in one of Encounter’s Intensive Leadership Seminars.

Encounter’s Intensive Leadership Seminars are by-invitation-only heavily subsidized programs for deeply committed high-level Jewish professionals and volunteer leaders. Past participants of Encounter’s programs are invited to nominate colleagues and peers for participation in a future Intensive Leadership Seminar. Cohorts are carefully curated to reflect a diversity of sectors, denominational affiliation and political views.  

Encounter seeks to catalyze a changed Jewish communal engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To that end we are primarily focused on high-level senior Jewish professional and volunteer leaders, with a demonstrated track record of commitment to Jewish communal life and to engagement with Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Please nominate professional or lay leaders in the following sectors:

• Jewish Federations: National and regional leadership

• Jewish Community Relations Councils: National and regional directors

• Jewish Life and Israel Engagement on Campus: National, regional and campus directors

• National Advocacy Organizations: National and regional leadership

• The Pulpit: Senior rabbis  

• Institutions/Organizations of Higher Jewish Learning:  Senior leaders of rabbinical schools and other institutions training Jewish leaders, emerging and existing

• Jewish Education: Leading researchers and practitioners

• Jewish Public Square: Media, artists, leaders ‘outside traditional sectors’

• American Jewish Philanthropy: Professional and volunteer leaders

• Individual Lay Leaders with track record of service in major organizations in American Jewish life