[An open letter from Ariel Beery, co-founder and CEO of PresenTense.] Dear PresenTense Community, As many of you have known, PresenTense has been in the midst of transition over the past year, one which will ensure the continuation of our movement as a grassroots effort to remake the world through creativity and social entrepreneurship - and ensure our organization is not too closely tied to the personalities of one or two … [Read more...] about PresenTense Names New Co-Directors
A Call for Jewish Innovation Month
In a seemingly parallel world to the political messes of recent months, a new world is being born right before our eyes: a world born out of the visions of young Jewish social entrepreneurs around the world, over a hundred of which will be launching their ventures this June. So I hereby propose: let us declare June Jewish Innovation Month. If the upcoming events in the month of June go smoothly, the reports of a disconnected, past-tense … [Read more...] about A Call for Jewish Innovation Month
The Future of Judaism Begins Next Week
There is something to be said about recognizing a pattern when it emerges. Over the past few months, the Jewish People around the world were awoken to the challenges facing Judaism in Israel stemming from the toxic mixture of religion and politics that has pitted Jewish denomination against denomination in a race to control the gateways and passageways of the Jewish People in Israel. Due to the hateful actions of extremists in Beit Shemesh, the … [Read more...] about The Future of Judaism Begins Next Week
State of Her Own
by Erin Kopelow and Ariel Beery for Tablet Magazine If all goes according to plan, this March we’re going to bring a daughter into the world. Specifically, we’re going to bring her home to our apartment on Chen Boulevard, in the center of Tel Aviv, the city we’ve made our home, though we were born in the United States and Canada. Had you asked us six years ago where we dreamed of raising a family, we’d have answered “Israel” without … [Read more...] about State of Her Own
Five Years and Who Knows What’s Changed
In the summer of 2006, I was set on pitching a new magazine in what I was told would be a four-day global contest for funding held in Jerusalem. The magazine, of course, was PresenTense, an effort a few friends of mine and I started in December of 2005 in Morningside Heights of Manhattan. After months of unsuccessful attempts to raise $10,000 for the first print run and distribution, we ended up printing it ourselves. For $5,000 that a friend and … [Read more...] about Five Years and Who Knows What’s Changed
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