As we light the Channukah candles this year, may we celebrate our own liberation and reflect on how we wield our power as Jews.
A Birthright Israel trip alum gives three reasons why Birthright trips are problematic.
Why document a movement that has failed for 50 years to achieve its objective? The director of the American Jewish Peace Archive answers a tough question.
The essay reminded me of notes I sent with my daughter Shachar (who is now in college), when she went off on her sixth grade trip to Israel. I don’t often write about my children (and I got permission from her for this blog post), but Danya’s piece pushed me to realize that explicitly parenting for the resistance is now an obligation—and nobody can do it on their own, we need to start sharing best practices.
“Disturbing the Peace” which combines reenactments, archival footage, on camera storytelling, and live documentation, tells the story of the creation of the organization “Combatants for Peace.”
[View the story “Report-Back: IfNotNow Members on Visiting Israel/Palestine with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence” on Storify]
A team of young American Jews from DC raised over $3,700 for Gazans as part of UNWRA’s “Gaza 5K Walk/Run.”
This event was a success not only because it demonstrated the openness of the students in our community, but also because it challenged Brown RISD Hillel to reflect on its ability to facilitate and provide space for this openness. Ultimately, the process of planning this event forced our Hillel to recognize its own lack of openness and to begin reworking its guidelines on Israel/Palestine programming.
[pullquote align=right] Jewish studies ought not, as Neusner recognized, be shaped to meet the parochial interests of the Jewish community. [/pullquote]In December of 1984, Jacob