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Pages tagged "identity"


Rabbi David Wolpe: Jewish Identity, Authenticity, and Unity

Posted on Podcast: What Gives? by Jewish Funders Network · September 26, 2019 5:00 AM

Episode 3 of What Gives? The Jewish philanthropy podcast from Jewish Funders Network.

Guest: Rabbi David Wolpe, renowned writer and speaker and senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.

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Yossi Klein Halevi & Rabbi Noa Kushner: Nationhood, Peoplehood, and Belonging In Contemporary Society

Posted on JFN TV (Videos) by Jewish Funders Network · April 09, 2019 12:00 AM

At the JFN 2019 International Conference in San Francisco, Yossi Klein Halevi, a leading Israeli writer and analyst, and co-director of Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative, discussed the need of the Jewish people to find in its national movement a “third way” between the impulses toward tribalism/ethnocentrism or a multicultural paradigm that demands people shed their particular identities. Rabbi Noa Kushner, Founder of The Kitchen, an independent religious community in San Franciso, spoke to the possibility of another identity and group-building rubric, one centered on Jewish experience, mission and commitment. How do Jews in Israel and the Diaspora alike navigate the perplexity and complexity of these issues as the Jewish people navigate painful differences and seek a common story, a common purpose, and a common identity?

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Speaking of Jewish Identity…

Posted on The President's Desk by AndrĂ©s Spokoiny · May 25, 2016 2:46 PM

eJewish Philanthropy, May 25, 2016

According to cognitive scientist Lera Boroditzky, you and I don’t see the color “baby blue” in the same way. That’s not because we have different eyes, but because we have different tongues. Mother tongues, that is. You see, language shapes perception.

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What Are Funders to Do? Implications of the Pew Report

Posted on The President's Desk by AndrĂ©s Spokoiny · August 10, 2014 3:53 PM

Sometimes we need to spawn many new organizations, and sometimes we need intelligent birth control.

eJewish Philanthropy, August 10, 2014

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