Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Vital Signs: Uniting the Jewish People
Jack Wertheimer
Fifth in a series on people and places fostering commitment to Judaism and the Jewish people.
"I've heard the term ‘Jewish peoplehood' very often but never understood what it meant," says Zhanna Beyl, an immigrant from Moscow now living in New York, where she works with Jewish teens from the former Soviet Union. "But I got a feeling for it when a small group of us from Latin America, Poland, India, and the States spontaneously sang the same Jewish musical tunes and talked." The setting of their encounter was the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship program, a unique experiment in global Jewish conversation.
