Stuck Home But Having Fun: Engaging Young Children Jewishly During COVID-19
“People can come to it when they want to; there’s no pressure to participate live.” Goldstein’s team includes four community connectors who focus on families with kids aged 0-2 in specific…
Major Jewish Organizations Form Emergency Pandemic Coalition
Through this coalition, we will work with our community partners to support our professionals and students throughout this crisis, and to develop the resources, programs and tools that…
Purim: Embodied Joy
Faith Brigham Leener is a Base (through Hillel's Office of Innovation) co-Founder, and she serves as Director of Base as well as Senior Educator of Base BKLYN. Purim is my favorite Jewish…
Israel education: Working towards slow growth rather than sudden conversion
They’re inspired “to literally fall in love with the land and the people.” They come away with an awakened sense of Israel’s personal significance. Here’s Zvi. I loved the feeling of…
Creating a Culture of Engagement and an Age of Partnership
Three years ago, he disdained Federation so much, he would not even have come to the meeting. Culture change is hard, but we are seeing the positive effects of changing attitudes toward…
Does “Interfaith” Still Matter?
No term is better to describe couples and families with members that come from Jewish backgrounds and other faith traditions. We use it as what in the legal field would be called a “term of…
Diaspora Jews to Israel: We Need to Talk
Two-thirds of American Jews see us as irrelevant to peace discussions. Despite this, our history is full of examples of Jewish resilience and accomplishment when we come together as one…
Jewish Federations & The Crisis in Ukraine: September 15
In partnership with Jerusalem's Wild Kids Animation Studio, 50 participants were encouraged to express themselves and come together through projects in three artistic disciplines: theater,…
Designer, Marketing & Creative - JFNA
The work we do is impactful and meaningful - and we are looking for superstars to ideate and create with us! We know that projects can come our way in many forms, and we’re always up for the…
Director, Israel & Global Peoplehood - San Diego
This position will meet regularly with members of the SHN regional council to continue to grow this relationship in ways that bring our two communities together. This position will be…
Thousands of Rosh Hashana wishes sent to Evan Gershkovich
How are you passing the time? What are you eating? What story ideas have you come up with? Our hearts are with you. Life can be so cruel and unfair, just as it is a gift of beauty and hope.…
Assessing the Ukraine Crisis Response
The 146 Jewish Federations and hundreds of Network Communities across North America are uniquely positioned to respond expeditiously and effectively to provide direct assistance to those in…
Jewish Federations & the Crisis in Ukraine: May 26, 2022
Through both directed and collective grant making, Federations are supporting over 46 NGO’s that are operating on the ground in Ukraine and neighboring countries. This includes Jewish…
The Lifesaving Work of Federations’ Core Historic Partners
The second post detailed the collective impact of Jewish Federations’ emergency allocations. Jewish Federations were prepared to respond immediately and effectively to the crisis in…
Hybrid Judaism: The Transformation of American Jewish Identity
In Greenberg’s words, encounter means that “…while I may come to refute or reject some contradictories, I may also learn from others’ insights and may even integrate them, thus improving my…
What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
What made it a positive learning experience? What kind of learning was it – what and how did you “learn”? What is the point of learning? How does learning happen? What is changing when we…