\”There\’s a challenge for Reform Jews around the observance of Tisha B\’Av, and communities make all kinds of choices,\” said Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman, the Union for Reform Judaism\’s director of worship, music and religious living.
\”We didn\’t have the resources and knowledge of how Israel has been changing according to the international arena,\” said Jewish-day-school teacher Ziva London on a break between sessions at an Israel teacher education workshop at the University of Judaism (UJ).
What does it mean to \”resist history\”? What is \”historicism,\” and why would there be \”discontents\” toward historicism in German Jewish thought, or in any intellectual society?
The Los Angeles campus of California State University hardly seems fertile ground to introduce studies on Jewish culture and history.
Coming after conferences on anti-Semitism in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna, the book, \”A New Anti-Semitism? Debating Judeophobia in 21st-Century Britain,\” is something of a symposium unto itself.
Jews have long understood the importance of study both as a religious activity and as the passageway to a shared culture. American Jews are waking up to how important it is to give their children a solid Jewish education so that they can choose the part they will play in the future of our people. The problem is that our educational systems are having a hard time keeping up, basically because we don\’t have enough good teachers for our day schools or for our congregational schools, where the majority of our children are formally trained in our heritage.
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