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What does it mean for all Jews to be responsible for each other?
What’s the relationship between Israelis and fellow Jews around the world?
These are crucial questions for shaping a Jewish future.
UJA-Federation has helped support a new interactive curriculum, Israel: The Vision and the Venture of the Jewish People, that Jewish educators around the world are introducing to middle and high school students to explore these issues.
It’s all part of an effort to enable Israelis and Jews worldwide to relate as partners with a shared vision and a common agenda.
“The curriculum is an attempt to create a new language, not a language of Israel-diaspora, with a hyphen in between us, but Israel as a venture of the whole Jewish people,” says Dr. Shlomi Ravid, director of the International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies at Beth Hatefutsoth in Tel Aviv. Ravid helped develop the curriculum with support from UJA-Federation’s Commission on the Jewish People and six other organizations.
The curriculum has both English and Hebrew versions and is beginning to be used worldwide in congregational education programs, summer camps, Jewish day schools, and public schools in Israel. ♦
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