Make an Impact.
Become a Mentor.
Change Two lives: theirs and yours.
Your personal and professional experience, combined with the Torah’s timeless wisdom, can inspire a young Jew.
Make an Impact.
Olami Mentorship connects Jewish college students and young professionals with Jewish mentors – with shared industry and interests – for personal and professional growth through the lens of Jewish values and identity.
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Make your impact
Help a young Jew navigate life’s challenges
Meet them weekly for 30 minutes to help them explore their Jewish identity and work through their personal and professional pain points and questions. Prepare to be astonished at the relationship you’ll build and the impact you’ll make. Here’s how it works:
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FAQs
Even the most successful people have mentors who contribute to their growth. The goal of the Olami mentorship community is to connect our mentees with someone who has walked the path before them and can offer guidance and support as they navigate their own growth journey.
Olami Mentorship focuses on the full 360 degrees of life, so no topic is off limits. We encourage mentees to discuss work, relationships, family, Jewish identity, and more.
Everyone needs a mentor! Mentorship is available to growth-oriented Jewish students and young professionals who are interested in personal and professional development – with a Jewish twist.
We have curated content for your initial 10 weekly sessions to help you and your mentee really get to know each other. It’s deep, it’s meaningful, it’s thought provoking and insightful. Together with your mentee, you can focus on personal identity, setting goals for the future, and considering the values that guide your choices along your journey.
You can meet in person or online – whatever works for you – for 30 minutes once a week. Our mentorship program includes an initial 10 weeks of sessions complemented by local mentorship events. We hope the weekly sessions and events will set the foundation for a more long-term, meaningful relationship with your mentee. Feel free to meet your mentee for coffee, invite them for shabbat, or welcome them into your life in whichever way you feel comfortable.
Your typical Jewish life can inspire mentees, even if you’re not a teacher or educator. Our mentors are professionals from across multiple industries with real life experience that offer meaningful conversation, authentic connection and personal growth.
Your responses to our form will help us identify a well-suited match. Our Mentorship team carefully reviews all mentee applications and will match you based on the alignment of many categories. We look at your personal and professional interests as well as what each mentee is looking to gain from mentorship.
Our mentees apply on a rolling basis so we will be in touch as soon as we have a mentee in mind for you! We appreciate that your life is very busy, and we will reach out to see if you are still able to dedicate the time. Once you agree, we will introduce you to your mentee in a texting chat where you will schedule your own ongoing meetings directly with your mentee, at a time that is convenient for you both.
Mentors are evaluated based on industry, upbringing, Jewish affiliation, hobbies and interests, location, life-stage, personality and shared life experiences.
We know that taking this on can be a rewarding challenge, but a challenge, nonetheless.
That’s why our team is here for you every step of the way. We have a dedicated educator who is leading this initiative with a combined 50+ years of educational experience: Rabbi Shlomo Landau, Director of Community Mentorship is here to support you throughout the journey – from onboarding to selecting educational resources, and to navigating complex situations. He can be reached via phone or WhatsApp.
If you got this far and still have questions that we didn’t address, then we’d love to chat with you. You can email Rabbi Shlomo Landau at slandau@olami.org.
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