Community Leaders
Welcome Community Leaders!
We believe you may be interested in the following materials:
Real Talk
Real Talk is a series of guided conversations to be held with lay and professional leadership in your community, in order to enable a more nuanced, considered approach to Israel engagement.
The Hatikvah Vision
This presents a way in which you might choose to frame the way your community engages with Israel, in all spheres.
Celebrating Israel
Is there a way to break out of an uninspiring cycle of Yom Ha’atzmaut events? We recommend a re-think…
Makom in Depth
A collection of our articles for various publications, offering deeper insights into the challenges facing Israel Engagement. You may find Creativity in Coalition of particular relevance, addressing, as it does, community change processes in Israel engagement.
Below you can also find all the materials posted that have been earmarked for your interest.
Jewish Peoplehood and Human Beings
‘Jewish Peoplehood’ – the notion of collective Jewish belonging – has been criticized as an abstract term with little practical grounding. In order to overcome this challenge, various resources including curricula and seminars have been developed to teach students what Jewish Peoplehood means.
The problem with this approach lies in the assumption that students will simply get it if educators teach them the value of and the textual basis for the ties that bind the Jewish people. However, engendering an organic ‘group connection’ is not a didactic exercise but rather a highly internalized understanding built out of layered relationships and experiences. To Full Post
Video – Yonatan Ariel laying out Makom’s overall approach
Yonatan Ariel, Executive Director of Makom, spoke engagingly and entertainingly at the General Assembly of 2011. On this panel, Yonatan plays out what Israel education must become. (Starts at 11:16)
The panel, entitled “Israel: A New Narrative”, was chaired and introduced by John Ruskay, Executive Vice-President and CEO, UJA-Federation of New York, and Yonatan Ariel shared the panel with Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America (7:52), and with Elizabeth Wolfe, Chair of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
Yonatan Ariel focuses on the Hatikvah Vision: To Be A Free People In Our Land, Yehuda Kurtzer explores the latest work of the Hartman Institute in Israel engagement, and Elizabeth Wolfe speaks of the experiences of Toronto in working with us (26:00).
It Takes a Village: From Gondar to Jerusalem – Photographic exhibition
Since 1929, the Jewish Agency has addressed the most critical challenges facing the Jewish people, real-time – anytime, anyplace. We bring Jews from forgotten, often embattled, corners of the earth to Israel. Safeguarding our people is a central pillar of our work. To Full Post
Introduction to Ksharim
Click here to download the complete Introductory pdf to Ksharim
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The Philosophers’ Retreat
The Philosophers’ Retreat (2003) was an attempt to capture and make widely available an assessment of the state of the field of Israel engagement. This document has been used in schools, synagogues and in leadership training programs.
Beyond Hugging and Wrestling
This piece appeared in the Autumn 2011 edition of Contact, the journal of the Steinhardt Center for Jewish Life.
Making an offer
Like any “industry”, the value of an artist depends on many variables:
- How big a name that artist is already in Israel, but also-
- What kind of audience a name act will draw in your community
- If the artist has other options for that period of time they might increase their fee accordingly. To Full Post
Payment
When you are thinking about producing an event, payment is a key aspect of any deal you will structure. To Full Post
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