Peoplehood Papers 22

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 - “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] From the editors: (Shlomi Ravid and Zack Bodner) The creation of the State of Israel has been, by any measure, a game changer in Peoplehood history. The need to build and develop a sovereign state for a people who’d been spread throughout the globe for 2000 years, provided the Jews a unique … [Read more...] about Israel@70:
A Peoplehood Perspective

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 - “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Hanan A. Alexander In his classic study Ideology and Utopia, sociologist Karl Mannheim argued that ideologies - frameworks of belief and value that govern some aspect of our individual or collective lives - tend to advance until they fall prey to their own internal contradictions. In … [Read more...] about Education for Jewish Peoplehood Today

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 - “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Erica Brown As Israel celebrates its seventy years of existence, some of the language we’ve used for decades to discuss Jewish identity begins, like the country, to get old. It desiccates and ceases to have the meaning and substance it once had. We become impatient with hackneyed phrases … [Read more...] about Peoplehood Fatigue?

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 - “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Deborah Dash Moore As Noam Pianko has cogently shown in Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation (2015), the term originated in the twentieth century. Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, a spiritual Zionist and founder of the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism, proposed the word as an … [Read more...] about Where Might We Locate a Jewish Peoplehood for the Twenty-First Century?

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 22 - “Israel@70: A Peoplehood Perspective” - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Arnold M. Eisen It is Tisha B’av, and I am fasting as I write these reflections on the state of conversation about Jewish peoplehood in the summer of 2018. Observance of the holiday attests to my identification with Judaism and the Jews. I am saying that the story told of twice-over … [Read more...] about It is Time for Building Together