I recently visited the POLIN Museum for the History of Polish Jews and discovered an innovative new museum that I believe will change the ways we tell Jewish narratives and educate about the past and present. Let me begin with a confession. This was my first trip to Poland ever. The first because my late…
Many of the students who come to Ben Gurion University praise the rich campus life, the social involvement and the ability to create and initiate in an enabling environment. Many of them aren’t aware of the fact that community life has been a part of the Jewish world for centuries and that even today there…
One of the most powerful statements about the importance of Jewish Peoplehood comes to us every year through the story of the Wicked Son in the Passover Hagaddah. What does the Wicked Son (‘Ha’Rasha’) say? “What is this [Passover] to you?” To you, and not to him. And since he excludes himself from the community…
We can all imagine just how different they are. Clearly a young Jew growing up today in Paris with the anxieties we all know about, the threats we have all read about and experienced if we have done anything Jewish in Paris over the past few years, has a totally different set of formative experiences…
It is time for like-minded Jewish peoplehood educators and activists to share a common platform for discourse and mutual enrichment. We live in times when Jewish peoplehood can be a practice and an active experience, so let’s celebrate this opportunity. In ancient times, the notion of Jewish Peoplehood was primarily a conceptual framework reflected in…