Fellowship Archive
Continuity, Community, & Conscience: Framing the Global Jewish Future
32 young Jewish leaders from 18 communities across the Jewish world gathered in Klingenthal, France to explore Continuity, Community & Conscience: Framing the Global Jewish Future. Fellows and Faculty addressed the inherent tensions that often exist between Jewish continuity, the communal mechanics we use to achieve this goal, and contemporary values and mores.
Program
The program represents the diversity of voices throughout Jewish life with guidance from an outstanding group of renowned scholars. Our faculty elevated the conversation, and inspired meaningful engagement with their subjects and each other. As educators, their dedication to nurturing Jewish leaders everywhere truly exemplifies the core values of the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship: to enhance and strengthen Jewish Peoplehood globally.
Some of the sessions this year included:
The Jewish Future within the Global Human Future
The French Jewish Community: Lessons for the Jewish World
Community, Conscience and Continuity
Israel, Zionism and the Jewish People: A Global Perspective
Faculty
Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath Beit Halachmi is a Jewish institutional leader, author, and sought-after public speaker. Currently, Rabbi Sabath serves Ohavay Zion Synagogue and is a senior scholar of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood, USA
Prof. Steven Windmueller, American Scholar and Jewish Communal Professor, Prof. emeritus, contemporary political Issues and American Jewish Affairs, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, USA
Nigel Savage, founder of Hazon, the largest environmental organization in the Jewish community, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by JTS. He is currently observing the shmita year – on sabbatical, in Israel.
Prof. Eric Goldman, Adjunct Professor of Cinema at Yeshiva University, USA
Prof. Galeet Dardashti, Assistant Professor of Jewish Music, JTS, USA
Dr. Channa Pinchasi, Director, Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Founded the Cheider Mishelach forum, Israel.
Prof. Danny Fainstein, Dean and professor of Jewish Studies at the Universidad Hebraica in Mexico City. He is also a member of the MFJC Board of Trustees, Mexico
Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, US.
Dvora Serrao serves as Director General of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris, France.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
MORE ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
As with every NGF, 32 once again proved the immeasurable value of bringing together Jewish leaders from all over the world. The Fellows were able to address challenging subjects affecting our communities today such as gender, sexuality, climate change, and the continuity of Jewish life in the diaspora with the unique passion and commitment to growth and rigorous learning that is unique to the NGF.
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