by Rabbi Eliav Bock Last year, while recruiting our first cohort of campers to the county’s only Kosher outdoor adventure camp, Ramah Outdoor Adventure, someone forwarded me a funny video titled Jews Don’t Camp (see above). While clearly intended as some light humor, there is a … [Read more...] about Jews Do Camp
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Giving Priority to the Jewish People
by Jack Wertheimer At a time when Jewish communal institutions are failing to attend to the needs of Jews at home and abroad, the hot trend in Jewish philanthropic and organizational circles, incredibly, is to channel ever more of their resources to nonsectarian causes. … [Read more...] about Giving Priority to the Jewish People
Charity Begins at Home, But Should Not End There
by Shlomi Ravid In a witty 1903 article titled "Tikkun Haolam and Zionism" Ahad Ha'am makes the following statement: "Our youths are so used to dwelling on and dealing with the questions of "Tikkun Haolam", until too many of them this question became their spiritual focus, and … [Read more...] about Charity Begins at Home, But Should Not End There
Peoplehood is With People
by Rachel Farbiarz and Ruth W. Messinger In parsing our Peoplehood along the axes of particularism and universalism, our thoughts inevitably turn to actual, real people: to our grandparents and great-grandparents and those unknown before them. Our people were not from around … [Read more...] about Peoplehood is With People
The Boundaries of our City in the Age of Globalization
by Micha Odenheimer Should the Jewish People and Israel actively care and become urgently involved with issues of extreme poverty in the developing world? Don’t we have enough on our plate already? As the founder of a Jewish-Israeli NGO whose raison d'etre is to create just … [Read more...] about The Boundaries of our City in the Age of Globalization
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