While young Israelis speak Hebrew and follow the cycle of the Jewish calendar, many are disconnected from their Jewish identity, perceiving Jewish tradition to be outdated, inaccessible, or irrelevant. A majority of these Israelis reject organized religion. The result is a “crisis of meaning” among Israeli youth. These young people, on the brink of adulthood, are ...
Over the last 20 years many Jews have left the FSU and settled in Israel, with the rest in the US, Germany, Australia and other countries around the world. These immigrants no matter where they have settled share some common factors. Many of them ...
by Pamela Deutsch [caption id="attachment_1970" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="photo by: Mona Ostby Beck"][/caption] Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, Ariel was involved in the Bnei Akiva Youth Movement after the fall of the "Iron Curtain". For Ariel, the emissaries who came to the Ukraine from Israel and the US were ...
The edict published by municipal rabbis forbidding the rental of apartments to Israeli Arabs has led to intensive public discussion both in the media and in many other public forums. On the one hand surveys conducted in response to the edict indicate ...
On October 18, 2010, Itim held a training seminar for social workers at Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center on the issue of burial in Israel. The seminar included critical information needed by families of the deceased including costs associated with burial, people ...
ITIM, The Jewish Life Information Center, is an independent, non-profit organization, dedicated to making Jewish life accessible to all. ITIM offers extensive information about the different aspects of the Jewish life cycle including historical, legal and psychological information as well as ...
In Israel today there is a trend towards extremism in the religious community and the isolation of the religious camp from the mainstream of society. Many contemporary rabbis and educators tend to ignore difficult educational issues while Halachic authorities avoid important social questions ...
Ne'emanei Torah Va'Avoda will be holding a conference on Sunday June 27th, 2010 to discuss this issue. In the last several years there has been a growing trend to separate boys and girls in religious elementary schools; sometimes as early as kindergarten. ...
Located in Yeroham but serving the entire Negev region, ATID BAMIDBAR works to empower the local community, connects diverse Negev communities around Jewish and Israeli culture, and promotes communal, cultural, educational, and tourism initiative. It is our mission to ...
ATID BAMIDBAR is proud to be a leading partner, along with MELITZ, Hillel and BINA, in organizing the first-ever Limmud-Negev celebration of Jewish culture, hosted in Yeroham on Sunday, December 13th, from 14:00 until late at night. Affiliated with Limmud International, Limmud-Negev ...
