Peoplehood: A Sense of Belonging
The Peoplehood Papers: a selection of essays on Jewish Peoplehood including pragmatic suggestions on how organizations can create new understandings and action plans around the issue.
Created as a platform for enriching the Jewish Peoplehood conversation, The Peoplehood Papers is a collaboration of United Jewish Communities, The International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies at Beth Hatefutsoth and KolDor.
eJewish Philanthropy graciously thanks Kol Dor for providing this series to us and allowing us to share The Peoplehood Papers with our readers.
In response to great interest in the pilot issue of The Peoplehood Papers (published for the 2007 General Assembly), this resource has now become a regular publication aimed at providing a space for sharing ideas about Jewish Peoplehood, the Jewish future and related matters.
This edition features articles from a diverse group of Jewish leaders and thinkers and covers philosophical aspects of Jewish Peoplehood as well as practical implications for Jewish organizations, schools and communities.
Table of Contents
Ready, Steady, Go: Midrashic Applications of Jewish Peoplehood Education
Shelly Kedar
A Framework for Strategic Thinking about Jewish Peoplehood
Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz and Ari Engelberg
Spreading the Word on Jewish Peoplehood
Dr. Michael C. Kotzin
Breaking the Glass: Jewish Peoplehood and Beyond
Dr. Alisa Rubin Kurshan
Towards Jewish Peoplehood
Dr. David Mittelberg
Making Jewish Peoplehood Work: The Institutional Challenge
Dr. Shlomi Ravid
Israeli-Jewish Diaspora Relations
Prof. Gabriel Sheffer
Building Community and Peoplehood in a Time of Personalism
Dr. Jonathan Woocher
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Also related to the discussion on Jewish Peoplehood, the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life devoted the most recent issue of Contact to the subject.
In the introduction to Jewish Peoplehood: What Does It Mean, editor Eli Valley writes:
“but what exactly is “Peoplehood”? Is it just another phrase carted out by Jewish communal professionals determined to keep Jews procreating with other Jews? Or does it have intrinsic meaning beyond catch-phrase pabulum? Where does Peoplehood end and tribalism begin? Is it possible to articulate Peoplehood in a manner that is inspiring yet not exclusionary?”
The complete issue of Contact is available here.
