(Courtesy of The Bronfman Fellowship) The Bronfman Fellowship is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 39th cohort of this transformative program. The fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a free, intellectually challenging year of programming, beginning with an immersive seminar that includes travel to Israel and the U.S. between the fellows’ junior and senior years of high school, followed by monthly virtual experiences and two additional seminars in the U.S.. The program educates and inspires exceptional young Jews from diverse backgrounds to have a significant impact on the world as community builders, deep thinkers, moral voices and cultural creators. The nonprofit fellowship was founded by Edgar M. Bronfman, z”l, formerly CEO of the Seagram Company Ltd. and a visionary Jewish philanthropist.
Applications for the 2025 fellowship are due December 2, and are available online at bronfman.org. High school students in the United States and Canada who self-identify as Jewish and who will be in the 11th grade in the fall of 2024 are eligible to apply. The fellowship is a pluralistic program for Jews of all backgrounds; prior Jewish education is not required.
Fellows also interact with a group of Israeli peers who were chosen through a parallel selection process by the Israeli branch of the fellowship, Amitei Bronfman. Additionally, they have the opportunity to participate in the fellowship’s arts tracks: Workshops in areas including poetry, dance, drama, visual narrative and music, taught by leading innovators in the field of Jewish art. Upon returning home from the summer in the U.S. and Israel, fellows explore major themes in Jewish life and embark on projects to bridge the ideas and questions from their Bronfman summer with their daily lives and home communities.
“My father, Edgar M. Bronfman, placed enormous faith in young people’s ability to see the world not just as it is, but as it ought to be,” said Adam R. Bronfman, president of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. “He believed that young people energized by their Judaism were best equipped to both shape a Jewish ‘Renaissance’ and improve the world.”
The Bronfman Fellowship alumni community includes some of today’s leading Jewish cultural creators, deep thinkers, moral voices and community builders, with nearly 1,500 Bronfman Fellowship alumni across North America and Israel. Among them are nine Rhodes Scholars, four former Supreme Court clerks and 20 Fulbright Scholars. Israeli alumni have also ascended to positions of influence in government, civil groups, the private sector and cultural institutions.
For more information about The Bronfman Fellowship, including how to apply, please visit www.bronfman.org.
