Yom Ha’atzmaut Day – suggestions
When significant resources are not at our fingertips, when the top cool Israeli band is not available for a free performance, how can we nevertheless ensure that our community’s Yom…
challah Friday night Israel
Shabbat Service
“A People in Our Land” Goal: Participants will develop a personal connection to the significance of Israel by participating in the development of how we celebrate it. How: Torah Study Discussion…
Friday Night Israel
Goal: To connect the idea of Israel to the Jewish values embodied in Shabbat. How: Home ritual During Friday night dinner at home, a family can add a brief ceremony, like…
Yom HaZikaron
Degrees of Separation This lesson focuses on the challenge of marking Yom HaZikaron (Israel Remembrance Day) for North American Jewry. We explore the notion of commemorating in the wider American context, and…
Old Songs Renewed
We often feel how the soul of Israel was conjured for us through its music. Who can imagine connecting to Israel without Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, for example? Yet often we find ourselves…
Home activity – “Free People in Our Land”
“To be a free people in our land” Goal: Families will feel like what it means to be an Israeli by experiencing Israeli culture through one of its quintessential foods. How:…
School Activity – “Our Land”
Goal: Participants (students with or without their parents) will see how biblical accounts of ancient Israel become more real when we engage with physical objects from ancient times. How: Archeological simulationReview…
Migrant Workers’ Helpline
If you’ve been to Israel lately, you might have seen Masada, the kotel, and the Tel Aviv nightlight. But did you notice the 180,000 migrant workers from the Philippines, China,…
Talking Israel – with Bnai Jeshurun’s R. Marcelo Bronstein
Talking Israel is a series of video conversations between R. Marcelo Bronstein of Bnai Jeshurun in New York, and an Israeli personality who both embodies and engages in Israel’s vibrant complexity. Mahatma Gandhi once…
