Innovators: Put up or Shut Up

by AYK [➚] · Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Awright agitators, scholars, big talkers, idea people, and loud-mouths, here’s your chance.

Charles Bronfman has put up $1.5 million dollars for a visiting scholar’s position at Brandeis. It’s a 2-year appointment, during which the chosen candidate will have lots of resources to put toward assembling a scholarly-innovative-creative-communally-concerned project of some serious gravity.

It’s modeled on a competition from 1929, sponsored by Sears Roebuck Chairman Julius Rosenwald, who threw a similar contest for $10,000. The winner in 1929? wait for it….. Mordechai Kaplan’s Judaism as Civilization.

God willing, this endeavor will encourage something more readable and as weighty (in terms of ideas, not physical mass).

For full details, check here

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2 Responses to “Innovators: Put up or Shut Up”

So is anyone here entering? I’m not sure I want to move to Boston.

—BZ · October 7th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
[...] Sieradski, founder of Jewschool, gave this speech yesterday at the GA. Yet it is my belief that the next big Jewish idea will not be hatched inside a board room. It will not be the result of a research study. It will not [...]

—Jewschool » Blog Archive » The Revolution Will Not Be Funded · November 13th, 2007 at 9:28 am

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