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Ideas — Arts and Culture
Dust of Europe
Dust of Europe is a multimedia project whose goal is to reach out to and to inspire young members of the Jewish community to dig into their families’ history. Shakespeare said, “What is Past is Prologue.” History is not irrelevant. The documentary portion of the project follows me, a 29-year-old as I track the path of my great-grandfather, Joseph Kershner, as he journeyed from Burlington, Vermont back to Turysk, Ukraine to save family members. Tracking the exciting story has also been a personal journey that has helped me to discover how I can use my career to have a greater…
Haggadot.com
Passover is about freedom. But when it comes to the seder, many Jews are lost. The haggadah is a core artifact of freedom in Jewish identity. The versions of past and current haggadot illustrate incredible diversity in Jewish culture over the years. But some traditions get overlooked, while others may seem outdated, with no place for varied, individualized voices.
Today's Judaism demands that we value both personal narratives and the collective conversation. As the Jewish community struggles with participation, so does the publishing field. In our digital culture of immediacy, modularity and customization, consumers simply do not purchase full printed…
Jerusalem4ALL
Jerusalem4ALL is a collaborative, communities based international education, training, and research organization dedicated to promoting peace, security, freedom, and planetary well-being. The topography of Jerusalem inspired an ancient understanding of the holy city as the navel of the earth. We now envision an open Jerusalem as the capital city of the planet.
Jerusalem4All is dedicated to innovative, forward looking approaches to the future of the Jewish people in the current millennium. Peoples across the planet live in communities whether rural villages or villages within urban megalopolis centers such as Los Angeles, Paris or New York. In our era more women…
Inner-City Outreach
As an educator in south Los Angeles, I am dismayed by my student 's lack of knowledge about cultures and experiences outside of their own community (this becomes glaringly obvious, particularly when it comes to winter celebrations). Many children in the inner-city lack hope that things can be better. I have a great deal of respect for the Jewish people tenacity, determination to succeed. These are qualities I want my students to see expressed in the lives others. And I want them to desire these qualities for themselves. I propose an after-school mentorship program taught by Jewish young adults for…
HeebsterPR
Jewish assimilation can be reduced by creating a modern secular Jewish inspired culture. In short, create an Jewish inspired art scene of fashion, film, photography, music, that Heebsters can continue to explore throughout their lives. Keep it hip and fun.
Do Jew Know Me?
The first of several plays about Jewish Women who have made and make history. Bella Abzug, Emma Lazarus, Henrietta Szold, Maud Nathan, Maud Younger, Ray Frank - to name a few....Do Jew Know Me? will identify, honor and celebrate our unknown, forgotten and unsung Jewish heroines through theater, history and story-telling. These women's stories, their struggles, sacrifices, accomplishments, courage and humor are completely lost - especially to our youth who tragically know more about Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan that Hannah Solomon who founded The National Council of Jewish Women or Ernestine Rose who fought - with Susan B. Anthony…
Yiddische Yumour!
I would like to bring the idea of learning and speaking Yiddish, Spanish and Humour together in a comedic, educational and inspirtational setting for teens and young adults, via professional actors, writes and perfomers. I would like to engage Jews and Hispanics living in Los Angeles to come together for workshops discussions and events to discuss their similar immigrant backgrounds (if not immediate then going back to the grandparents' stories) and then work on it together and create comedic improv pieces which can be perfomed in community centers, religious institutions, schools etc.
Stretching and Kvetching… Putting the “oy” in Joy
Life is pretty weird/awesome/meshugana huh?
If you told me 8 years ago when I was back in NY working on Wall Street, that I would be spending my Sundays in LA at assisted living communities teaching how to stretch and complain, I would think you were Passover soup nuts (ahem, the worst and craziest kind of nuts).
But here I am for the last five years teaching Stretching and Kvetching, an exercise and entertainment class that works out the heart, mind, and laughter muscles as much as our legs, arms, and pinky toes.
The premise of the class was founded…
LEARNING YIDISHKITE THROUGH HEBREW IDIOMS
I like to see a book that teaches YIDISHKITE and not spoken Hebrew.
For example:
NER TAMID, SHABAT SHALOM, EREV CHAG, CHAG SAMEACH, YERUSHALIM IR HAKODESH, ARON HAKODESH, CHATAN VEKALAH, BRIT MILA, ASERET HADIBROT, DAVID MELECH ISRAEL, BEIT KNESET, ROSEH CHODESH AND LEHITRAOT.
SOUNDS JEWISH
"HEAR oh Israel"! Sounds Jewish will make legendary and popular books by great Jewish thinkers from Maimonides to David Wolpe, Abraham Isaac Kook to Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moshe Chayim Luzzatto to Harold Kushner, Naomi Levy and other great past and present Jewish movers and shakers, thinkers and teachers available to anyone anywhere as audiobook downloads or CDs. Let's ensure that Jewish Books don't get left behind as society continues to be driven by the download. While information is largely disseminated through high-tech media including internet download and audio and video products, a gaping hole in lies in the middle of…