It is time for like-minded Jewish peoplehood educators and activists to share a common platform for discourse and mutual enrichment.\u00a0 We live in times when Jewish peoplehood can be a practice and an active experience, so let's celebrate this opportunity.\u00a0 In ancient times, the notion of Jewish Peoplehood was primarily a conceptual framework reflected in Jewish imagination.\u00a0 Jewish peoplehood was expressed in modalities like theology, halachic literature, poetry and art.\u00a0 Practically, most Jews had no direct exposure to other Jews outside their immediate community.\u00a0 The fact that there were Jews in other parts of the world had little personal meaning.\u00a0 Jews spoke different languages and lived in discrete political and cultural settings.<\/p>\n
Modern times introduced a dramatic change in this construct.\u00a0 Massive migration, urbanization and Zionism, were the catalyst for new forms of interactions between Jews of diverse backgrounds.\u00a0 Jews traveled, relocated, and found themselves meeting other types of Jews, representing the diversity of Jewish life.\u00a0 Jewish peoplehood became a concrete social and cultural experience.\u00a0 Modernity also forced Jews to adopt another adjective, Jewish and (Reform, Secular, Haredi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and more)<\/p>\n
Today, globalization opens a new chapter in the evolving concept of Jewish Peoplehood.\u00a0 Now, individual Jews, as part of their respective communities and beyond, can converse, meet, interact and collaborate.\u00a0 New technologies have made it possible and accessible for a new Jewish wide web.<\/p>\n