“…the relevance of Israel to the younger generation of American Jews is not self-evident…”
Jewish students on campus do not need heavily curated fact-sheets or pro-Israel YouTube videos on Facebook to combat anti-Israel agitation. They need […]
Category: Young Adults
“We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?”
In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic kind that I’ve described, what we need now […]
“You can’t ignore the Internet…It’s where millennials are living their Judaism”
“You can’t ignore the Internet,” [Rabbi Juan] Mejia said. “It’s where millennials are living their Judaism, it’s the main force behind Judaism […]
“Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an ideological linkage between powerful Israel experiences and the creation of robust Jewish communities for young Jews in America, Zionism is absent from the mix”
Our dilemma today is that at the very time that we desperately need an ideological linkage between powerful Israel experiences and the […]
“Take young Jews, 18-26, on a free trip to Israel and they will return rededicated to Jewish life, says the conventional wisdom. This model would have worked a generation ago”
Take young Jews, 18-26, on a free trip to Israel and they will return rededicated to Jewish life, says the conventional wisdom. […]
Jewish Organizations / Jews in America / Young Adults
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“Like synagogues, the Jewish federation system…once defined community for North American Jews. … Today, however, Federation seems distant from the lives of most Jewish young people….”
Like synagogues, the Jewish federation system (usually referred to simply as “Federation”) is another area that once defined community for North American […]
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“If we want real institutional change, all areas of the Jewish community should seek to foster young leadership”
…if we want real institutional change, all areas of the Jewish community should seek to foster young leadership. In every commencement speech, […]
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“Let’s redirect funds used for fighting anti-Semitism toward Jewish renaissance programs”
…let’s redirect funds used for fighting anti-Semitism toward Jewish renaissance programs. I have publicly stated that it is a waste of the […]
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“Traditional Jewish institutions must seek guidance from creative young leaders, and some have begun to do so…”
Traditional Jewish institutions must seek guidance from creative young leaders, and some have begun to do so. Young Jews are finding ways […]
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A “problem with the whole idea of “affiliated” and “unaffiliated” is that it depends on an outdated model for Jewish community…”
The problem with the whole idea of “affiliated” and “unaffiliated” is that it depends on an outdated model for Jewish community. The […]
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