Seminar Booklet 2016

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The delegation's main goals are: 1. The educators will strengthen the personal and professional ties between educators from both sides of the Partnership. 2. The educators will experience mutual learning that will lead to a greater understanding of the advantages and challenges of each educational system. 3. The educators will further develop existing projects and/or create new connections. 4. The educators will connect to Israel and especially to their twin region in the Western Galilee. 14
Jewish Identity in America and Abroad/ Professor Dina David, 2014 The topic selected for next year’s partnership seminar is Jewish Identity. This led me to search for a comprehensive definition of the term, Jewish Identity, but I was unable to find one. This article explores my journey to define the term Jewish Identity and what my own identity as a Jew means to me. During this journey I reflected on how being involved with the partnership impacted my own Jewish Identity by strengthening it as a whole. As a result of my own experiences I now believe that exposure to Israel and the partnership itself will help to develop and enhance my students’ Jewish Identity. As an educator I began my journey how I normally achieve in my classroom by employing the Socratic Method. 1 According to Merriam Webster Online the Socratic Method can be defined as: “the method of inquiry and instruction employed by Socrates esp. as represented in the dialogues of Plato and consisting of a series of questionings the object of which is to elicit a clear and consistent expression of something supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings.” Thus I began my quest of searching for a comprehensive definition for Jewish Identity. I started by asking what Jewish Identity is; but I quickly realized the complexity of the many possible answers. The first part of my journey to define Jewish Identity began with my attempt to categorize it. I anticipated that this journey and the categorization would be far simpler than it turned out to be. I started by asking myself the following questions: “Can Jewish Identity be strictly defined by Judaism and if so, if one is not religious is he or she still considered capable of having a Jewish Identity? Can Jewish Identity be defined in strictly cultural terms, or is Jewish Identity a combination of national identity and religious belief?” The most complex part of defining the term, Jewish Identity, I discovered was attempting to define what it means to be Jewish. This resulted in more questions, “Is Judaism a religion, a race, a nation, or just an ethno-cultural grouping?” and “How can we strengthen our own and others’ Jewish Identity if we are incapable of defining the term itself?” The next step of my journey was to explore what my identity as a Jew meant to me. I began with some self reflection on my own past as a Jew and an Israeli. I am not unique. Like so many other Jews I have a complex and extensive background. I was of two Iraqi Sephardic Jews in Israel. In 1992 I moved to Indianapolis to teach Hebrew at the Bureau of Jewish Education. As time progressed I became more immersed in the American Cultural and the American Jewish culture. 15
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