Upcoming Fellowship

Minsk, Belarus | February 9 - 11, 2020

Ideas, Identity, and Relevance: To Life! Towards a Jewish Communal Future in the FSU

Limmud FSU and The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship (NGF) are partnering to create a focussed Fellowship aimed at addressing the needs and concerns of Jewish leadership within the FSU. Participants in this joint Regional Nahum Goldmann Fellowship/Limmud FSU will confront and debate issues and questions relevant to their Jewish communities and to the future Jewish identity in the FSU.  The language of the Fellowship will be Russian and English.

Минск, Беларусь 9-11, 2020

Идеи, идентичность и актуальность: в жизнь! Навстречу будущему еврейской общины в странах бывшего СССР .

Лимуд FSU и Содружество Нахума Гольдмана совместно организуют саммит, ориентированное на задачи и проблемы еврейского лидерства в странах бывшего СССР. Участники совместного саммита  обсудят темы и вопросы, актуальные для своих еврейских общин и будущей еврейской идентичности в странах бывшего СССР. Языками саммита будут русский и английский.

ПРОГРАММА. Интенсивная и высоко-интерактивная программа будет осуществляться на русском и английском. Презентации посвящены вызовам, с которыми сталкивается современная еврейская идентичность, исследованию социально-экономических реалий жизни в бывшем СССР, и предлагают перспективные ответы на вызовы еврейству бывшего СССР. Участники саммита будут также иметь возможность  дискутировать в малых группах и делать доклады на соответствующих секционных заседаниях. Предполагаются семинары по вопросам истории, культуры, по изучению текстов.

Who Should Apply

Young men and women between the ages of 25-40 living in the FSU who demonstrate motivation and interest in Jewish learning and living, capacity for individual growth, professional and communal achievements, and leadership potential are eligible to apply.

Cost

Room and board for those chosen as Fellows is provided by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and Limmud FSU. The Fellows themselves and/or the local community or organizations they represent must cover travel expenses. There are limited travel scholarships available on request.

Additional funding for NGF/Limmud FSU is being provided by the Pincus Fund for Jewish Education in the Diaspora.

Apply

Applications for the Limmud FSU/Regional Nahum Goldmann Fellowship will close on December 31st, 2019.

All applicants will be notified of the success of their application by the beginning of January, 2020.

Program

The intensive and highly interactive program, will be conducted in English and Russian.

Presentations will explore the challenges of contemporary Jewish identity, examine the socio-historical reality of life in the FSU and offer perspectives on the challenges facing the Jews in the FSU. Fellows will also have the opportunity to engage in smaller group discussions and speak on relevant panels.

Workshops offered will include history, culture and text study.

Faculty

Dr. Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Yulia Patrakova, Teacher, Jewish Educator, Art & Literature Historian, St. Petersburg, Russia

Dr. Dmitry Maryasis – Senior Research Fellow, Department of Israel, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Eugenia Lvova – Director of Adain Lo and Vice President of RJC in St. Petersburg

Prof. Moshe Halbertal,  Gruss Professor,  NYU Law School &  Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Ilia Salita, President and CEO, Genesis Philanthropy Group, the Global Foundation focused on Russian-speaking Jewry, New York.

Rabbi Grisha Abramovich, Chief Rabbi of the Religious Union for Progressive Judaism in Belarus.

About The Fellowship

The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship occupies a unique place in the Jewish world offering high level learning that crosses religious, ideological, political, and geographic lines. As the centrifugal forces in the Jewish world increase in volume and vilification, the NGF offers a compelling counter-force. We nurture global Jewish unity and peoplehood: we believe in the inherent value of Klal Yisrael, its heritage, history, and culture. The Fellowship encourages individual Jewish expression, informed by engagement with serious Jewish scholarship and by real interactions with other young Jews who represent the full spectrum of the Jewish people.

Contact

CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information, contact ngf@mfjc.org