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This essay assesses the importance of three covenants that have in particular given shape to the development of Judaism in history. The three covenants described provided Israel with a law (and a way of being in the world) that transcends the law of the state; it will determine how Israel is to judge itself and others, and how it is to be judged by G-d.

By Matthew LaGrone

Interview with the Professor of Jewish History at the University of Munich, Michael Brenner

(Much obliged to JDC’s Center for Community Development for letting us publish and translate this material)

The author provides a detailed overview of the concept of Ger in Biblical and rabbinical literature, a term which nowadays is imperfectly translated as a convert, but the meaning of which in antiquity went far beyond that categorization. He goes on to propose certain messages and possible parallels to the contemporary Jewish experience.

By Michael Schatz, M.Ed., M.A.Jed

Speech by Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Published with the kind permission of the author.

The expert researcher and teacher on the subject of the Holocaust, Yehuda Bauer, reflects on these questions with unrivalled clarity in the following article, originally presented at the conference on “The Holocaust Era Assets: Why teach the Holocaust, what to teach, and how to teach”, which took place in Prague, June 2009.

By Sylvia Siegel Schildt
In this the final article in the series on Judaism and Ecology the author endeavors to translate theories into values and practices for every day life.
See also:
The Greening of Judaism: Growing a Movement with Biblical Roots
Managing Your Carbon Footprint from a Jewish Perspective

By Sylvia Siegel Schildt
Look what I have made – how beautiful it all is. Everything I have made, I have made for you. Take care lest you spoil and destroy my world, because if you do, there is no one after you to make it right.
Kohelet Rabbah 7:13

See also:
The Greening of Judaism: Growing a Movement with Biblical Roots
Eden re-visited

By Elena Medvedovski, PhD

For a Russian Jew, there was no question of whether he was to be or not to be a Jew, and if he was to be one, then what kind of Jew: secular, religious, a Zionist, or an advocate of life in the Diaspora. “Russian Jews did not become Jews, they were born Jews,” Aleksandr L’vov asserts: being a Jew was an incontestable “fact of biography.”

By Matthew LaGrone

“Never, never ask me what I’ve seen,” a father said to his young daughter. The father had just returned home after months in the Dachau concentration camp following the Kristallnacht pogrom. Fifty years later, she asked him the same question, and received the same response.

By Sylvia Schildt

This is the first in a trilogy of articles touching on this old/new direction in Judaism. Coming soon: a look at how some Jewish organizations from synagogues to JCC’s are re-branding themselves with a fresher, greener focus. And lastly, insights as to how individuals and families can incorporate a ‘greener’ outlook into daily living.

The Joint Distribution Committee’s International Centre for Community Development (JDC-ICCD) conducted through Gallup Europe a pan-European survey of top Jewish leaders and opinion-formers. The survey’s respondents hailed from 31 countries and spanned the full diversity of the Jewish communal world. The online survey covered, among other key topics, current challenges facing European Jewish communities, security and anti-Semitism, intermarriage and non-Orthodox conversions, European Jewish communities and Israel, decision-making and control, vision and change, Jewish communities’ lay and professional leadership. We present here a summary of some of the most important findings and access to the full Executive summary.

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