AmiUnity: What’s it all about?
Launched in 2017, the Jewish Agency AmiUnity initiative seeks to: Foster understanding of Jewish life outside of Israel and introduce Israelis to the vitality and diversity of Jewish life…
Family outing
“To be a free people in Our Land” Goal: Families will learn about the story of Hannah Senesh, a young Zionist hero who lost her life in defense of the Jewish…
VIDEO – Yonatan Ariel – The Jewish Guide to Plate-Spinning
As his JDOV talk, Yonatan Ariel presents his approach to Jewish Plate-spinning. How can I be an individual and part of a collective? What makes a Jewish person part of…
Chapter 7: How did we get to be us?
Changes in the Jewish community after modernity
In the previous chapters, we have dealt with all four of these themes – Jewish identity and the relationship of the individual to the community, the structure of the community, the relationships between different communities and different centres and the relationship with Eretz Israel – in relation to the pre-modern world. Now we bring the story forward and turn to them, systematically, one at a time, to create an understanding of the Jewish community in the world surrounding us today.
