The Latest From The Foundation
Dispatches from the network and updates from the Foundation.
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Mar 2021
Nothing at BBYO is Canceled, it’s Just Online
Pilot WFF and WGF/DS Alum Ian Kandel (Class 27)
09
Mar 2021
Productive Disruption: Reorganizing Jewish Community in the Digital Age
WHP Alum LIsa Colton (Seattle 19)
They offered me a job to build and be the rabbi of an online congregation. I remember sharing this plan with someone who said, “Okay, I understand what online means, and I understand what congregation means, but what the heck is an online congregation?!”
Of all the things I’ve learned during the pandemic, none amazes me more than this: every day at 12:30 pm eastern time, hundreds of people get onto Zoom, turn on their cameras, close their eyes and meditate quietly together for half an hour.
If you haven’t yet brought a llama to join your Zoom meetings, you’re missing out.
From my perspective, Color War is the most important educational program we run in Jewish schools and summer camps. Let me explain.
As far as I know, no one has studied this systematically, but over the last 15 years or so I’ve been asking American and Canadian adults and children (separately) to tell me what they’d say the opposite of play is.
“23/7? I really have to lay face down on a massage table 55 minutes out of every hour, all day and night?” These are the questions I was asking my surgeon the day before he performed emergency surgery on my right eye.
