In this talk from the JDov series, Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-HaLachmi argues that the future of Jewish Peoplehood depends on three questions that are being discussed in contemporary Israeli society, and beyond.
Watch the 15-minute talk here.
Discuss the following questions:
- Discuss each of the questions raised here. How does each one address or reflect issues of Jewish Peoplehood? What is the source of the controversy around each one?
- How do you hope that each question is resolved for the Jewish People today?
- What questions, if any, would you add to the list here?
Rachel Sabath Beit-HaLachmi is the national director of recruitment and admissions at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. She has taught at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and other pluralistic Jewish institutions. She has taught and written widely on liberal theology, gender, Israeli life, Zionism and other contemporary Jewish challenges.
