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Bronfman offering unique prize for 'next great Jewish idea'

By Haaretz Service

Philanthropist and businessman Charles Bronfman, co-founder of the birthright Israel program, has initiated a competition to find an idea which can transform the way the Jewish community thinks about itself, with the winner reaping a two-year visiting professorship at Brandeis University and a six-figure salary, the JTA news service reported Sunday.

According to JTA, the winner of the Charles R. Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation, to be awarded by the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Foundation, "will have two years at Brandeis to publish a significant English-language work based on his or her idea."

Jonathan Sarna, chair of the Hornstein Jewish professional leadership program at Brandeis, which will administer the new chair, told JTA that the goal was to find an idea akin to birthright Israel.

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Sarna said the origin of the concept was a contest held by then-Sears chairman Julius Rosenwald in 1929. Rosenwald offered $10,000 to the person who could answer the question: "How can Judaism best adjust itself to and influence modern life?"

Sixty-two contestants answered the question over two years, until Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, submitted what became his seminal work "Judaism as a Civilization" and won.

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1.	that`s easy	16:32	\|	wh	07/10/07

2.	#1	17:30	\|	nb	07/10/07

3.	#2	17:58	\|	Moshe	07/10/07

4.	Those few Jews who still have their minds to call their own	18:22	\|	Hannah	07/10/07

5.	Bronfman Prize	18:40	\|	Leonard Oberstein	07/10/07

6.	The arrogance of the man	20:54	\|	L A	07/10/07

7.	Great Idea	22:23	\|	EA	07/10/07

8.	My Response	22:55	\|	Joe	07/10/07

9.	#6, You may be right	23:09	\|	Yossi	07/10/07

10.	#6 Mr. Bronfman is far from arrogant...	23:16	\|	ebr	07/10/07

11.	New idea: Facing the chutzpa of a man descended from	23:51	\|	dov epstein	07/10/07

12.	we should try doing what Hashem says for a change ?	23:52	\|	yahn goodey	07/10/07

13.	DEAR MR BRONFMAN.	01:23	\|	David	08/10/07

14.	Bronfman Prize	01:47	\|	evanston Jew	08/10/07

15.	LA -- The arrogance is all yours	01:55	\|	bbl	08/10/07

16.	1st prize, 2 yr professorship at Brandeis; 2nd prize - 4 yrs.	04:09	\|	Dr. L. Brnd	08/10/07

17.	THe Philanthropists rule!	04:31	\|	SK	08/10/07

18.	My Submission	07:37	\|	Hal	08/10/07

19.	The `Idea` is Humanomics, in general	15:44	\|	Yehoshua Ya`acov	08/10/07

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