Peoplehood Papers 9

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 9 - The Collective Jewish Conversation: Its Role, Purpose and Place in the 21st Century - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] by Arnold Eisen The call for focused conversation about the nature of the Jewish people’s age-old covenant strikes me as exactly right and urgently important. My own work as a scholar has been greatly influenced by the notion that, as … [Read more...] about Including All Jews in the Conversation About Covenant

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 9 - The Collective Jewish Conversation: Its Role, Purpose and Place in the 21st Century - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] by Steven M. Cohen, Jack Ukeles and Ron Miller The recently conducted Jewish Community Study of New York (2011) offers a window on the diversity of the Jewish population, a feat that is both a daunting challenge to Jewish Peoplehood as well as … [Read more...] about Jewish Diversity and Its Implications for Jewish Peoplehood: Obstacle or Opportunity

[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 9 - The Collective Jewish Conversation: Its Role, Purpose and Place in the 21st Century - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] by Jerry Silverman Mina is in her late 80s, and for more than four decades has lived alone in an apartment in Kiev. This former teacher barely gets by on a meager pension, aided by care packages from the government. Thankfully, a social worker … [Read more...] about Jewish Peoplehood: The Values of Collective Action