[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 - Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Felicia Herman and Jackie Fishman To be honest, in our work at The Natan Fund, a giving circle made up of New York-based professionals in their 20s-50s, we seldom if ever think in terms of “Millennials” or other generational monikers. Rather than read … [Read more...] about Giving Circles: Philanthropy as Peoplehood
Millennial engagement
Using Our SMARTs to Engage Jewish Millennials
[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 - Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By No'a Gorlin In her article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” (The New York Times, 26/09/15), Professor Sherry Turkle points to evidence that technology’s ubiquitous presence in our lives today has led, among other phenomena, to a decreased ability among people to … [Read more...] about Using Our SMARTs to Engage Jewish Millennials
Engaging with Jewish Millennials about Peoplehood
[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 - Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Liz Fisher What does it take to engage Jewish Millennials with Peoplehood? Let’s start by changing the question. Let’s reframe the topic to: Engaging with Jewish Millennials about Peoplehood. Instead of creating a divide and thinking about what it takes “us” to … [Read more...] about Engaging with Jewish Millennials about Peoplehood
Jewish Peoplehood: From Value to Action
[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 - Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Sarah Eisenman It all comes down to the problem. In many ways, the Jewish community has defined the problem of engaging millennials as young people themselves. We are obsessed with getting them involved and through the door. If instead we related to them as … [Read more...] about Jewish Peoplehood: From Value to Action
Reweaving Jewish Community
[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 - Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Beth Cousens This is a personal story, but it's not about me. I grew up in a thick Jewish community. On any first days - of school, of camp, of youth group - when I would come home and tell my mother who I met, she would inevitably suggest that I knew them … [Read more...] about Reweaving Jewish Community