A home for people whose life’s work is to
nurture a consciousness of belonging to the
Jewish People, its history, legacy & destiny
The Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education serves as a resource and catalyst for developing the field of
Jewish Peoplehood. It also serves as the central entity to address the challenges of Jewish Peoplehood education.
A home for people whose life’s work is to nurture
a consciousness of belonging to the Jewish People,
its history, legacy and destiny. People who care deeply about promoting Jewish identification/belonging in an open, democratic, pluralist society.
Core Concepts of Jewish Peoplehood
What is your vision of Jewish Peoplehood?
Use the core concepts of Jewish Peoplehood and the resources offered on this website to sharpen your understanding of Peoplehood to build your organization, engage constituents, train staff, enable discussion, dialogue, thought and action.
Defining the distinctive spirit, values, and principles that guide Jewish communities and individuals in their thoughts, actions, and relationships, as they build their organizations and institutions.
Ethos
Promoting the value of Jewish pluralism.
Pluralism
Promoting consciousness of belonging to the Jewish People, its history, legacy, and destiny.
Consciousness
Assuming responsibility for the good of other Jews (areivut) and the broader society (tikkun olam).
Responsibility
Peoplehood is most concretely manifest as the enterprise of the building and on-going development of Jewish civilization.
Civilization
Enabling each person to develop a personal engagement with Israel as the joint venture of the Jewish People.
Israel
Resources
PEOPLEHOOD TOOLKIT
A comprehensive resource for Jewish educators and communal leaders interested in questions of Jewish collective belonging, global community and mutual responsibility that includes tools that address the what, how, and my of Peoplehood programming.
