Fellowship urges educators to get picky about priorities
Fellowship urges educators to get picky about priorities “Jewish education occurs across a wide range of venues and institutions, from camp to campus, from classroom to tour bus. The 18 x 18 fellowship is an attempt to bring all of those institutions into one discussion, to debate and determine what goals we are pursuing, what […]
The Pandemic, the Future, and Jewish Organizations: Leaders Reflect
The Pandemic, the Future, and Jewish Organizations: Leaders Reflect “The roughly one-year mark since pandemic restrictions began, along with a new phase of vaccine progress, converge to create a milestone moment. We sat down with seven leaders of Jewish organizations—all alumni of our CEO Onboarding Program—to take stock of the lessons they will remember from […]
Steven Spielberg Leads $2 million in Funding to Support Films Telling Diverse Jewish Stories
Steven Spielberg Leads $2 million in Funding to Support Films Telling Diverse Jewish Stories “We are especially proud to help establish this initiative — which will make visible a fuller range of Jewish voices, identities, experiences, and perspectives — at a time when social divisions run painfully deep and mainstream depictions too often fail to […]
Teaching Israel and the Pandemic
Teaching Israel and the Pandemic “To emerge from the current pandemic is to face an environment in which engaging with and traveling to Israel has become more complicated—and more fraught—than ever before. In what ways has the pandemic transformed the ways Israel is being taught in our schools? …Sources invited six leading experts to reflect on […]
Leah Soibel is bridging the gap between Israel and the Spanish-speaking world
Leah Soibel is bridging the gap between Israel and the Spanish-speaking world “…[N]early 600 million people worldwide speak Spanish. Yet many of them know little about Israel and the Jewish community — many don’t see an obvious reason to care about a country several thousand miles away and a religious group with very few adherents…. […]
Judaism and the Politics of Tikkun Olam, by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (SAPIR)
Judaism and the Politics of Tikkun Olam, by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg (SAPIR) “Jewish texts contain a multitude of opinions, enough to support the presuppositions and political persuasions that almost any seeker could bring to them. One can write a purely socialist economic plan for society using only traditional Torah sources. One could also write a […]
New research on High Holiday participation illuminates critical themes for future design (eJewish Philanthropy)
New research on High Holiday participation illuminates critical themes for future design (eJewish Philanthropy) “[The High Holidays of 2020 were] a kind of controlled experiment; essentially no one was able to celebrate or observe the holidays in the ways they were used to, so everyone was doing something different than usual. . . .There are […]
Too Jewish For Hollywood: As Antisemitism Soars, Hollywood Should Address Its Enduring Hypocrisy In Hyperbolic Caricatures of Jews (Variety)
Too Jewish For Hollywood: As Antisemitism Soars, Hollywood Should Address Its Enduring Hypocrisy In Hyperbolic Caricatures of Jews (Variety) “When there is a Jewish actor playing a Jew, Hollywood effectively demands said actor to express at least slight moral disdain and psychological discomfort with one’s Jewishness. The edgy, neurotic misfit Jew has become synonymous with […]
Teaching Religious Text in a Culturally Heterogeneous Classroom (Heterodox: The Blog)
Teaching Religious Text in a Culturally Heterogeneous Classroom (Heterodox: The Blog) “How do you navigate a Bible lesson with 30 students from different backgrounds? How do you make enough space for 30 unique relationships with religion, some of which are diametrically opposed to one another? . . . I humbly present two strategies for navigating […]
Philanthropy is Not Enough, by Jeff Swartz (Sapir)
Philanthropy is Not Enough, by Jeff Swartz (Sapir) “What does it mean to be a Jew investing in social change? For me, it is not about repurposing tikkun ha’olam, to mean being charitable. Investing in social change from a Jewish perspective means operating from a framework of commandedness. Tzedakah givers can be influenced by the tax code and […]