Rabbi Marc Baker (Year ’97-’98, Fellows ’98-’00, PCJE ’00-’02) recently taught at Pardes about Soulful Parenting with Dasee Berkowitz.
Rabbi Marc Baker has helmed Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), the Boston area’s federation, for three years. His predecessor, Barry Shrage, led CJP for three decades — during which time Baker explained Shrage created the conditions in which CJP and the organizations it serves can experiment with new ways of working together. Baker talked with eJewishPhilanthropy about how he plans to deepen relationships between CJP and its grantees, and how his background as a day school principal has shaped the way he thinks about leadership. Before taking the post at CJP, he was head of school at Gann Academy, a non-denominational Jewish high school in Waltham, Mass.