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Community Futures Meetings 2014
JPR's 'Community futures' initiative brings together some of the UK Jewish community's leading professional educators to explore some of the major tensions that exist in contemporary Jewish life, and to consider how best to manage them within the organisations they head up, and across the community. Inspired by Dr Barry Johnson's theory of "Polarity Management", the group convenes regularly to learn from one another, and to develop new thinking.
Our meetings together have explored:
Summer 2014 (Dr Jonathan Boyd)
- Reading 1: Steven M. Cohen (unpublished)
- Reading 2: Yossi Klein Halevi (The New Republic)
- Reading 3: Robert Wistrich (Mosaic)
- Reading 4: Sayed Kashua and Etgar Keret (part two) (The New Yorker)
- Reading 5: UK House of Commons debate transcript (Hansard)
- Reading 6: Maureen Lipman (Standpoint)
- Reading 7: Matt Plen (Blog)
- Reading 8: Jonathan Freedland (New York Review of Books)
- Reading 9: Stephen Karpman, Drama Triangle
- Reading 10: Sayed Kashua (The Observer)
- Footage 1: Jonathan Freedland and Mehdi Hasan (The Huffington Post)
- Footage 2: Simon Schama (UJIA Dinner, 2014)
Polarity management (Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand)
Tradition and change (Dina Brawer)
Generational change (Dr Roy Graham)
Exploring new data (Dr Jonathan Boyd)
- Reading 1: Graham, Staetsky and Boyd
Advocacy and education (Michael Wegier)
Nature and nurture (Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum)
Continuity and innovation (Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand)
Denominationalism and pluralism (Matt Plen)
Formal and informal education (Judith Williams)
Community futures analysts
Sally Berkovic
Chief Executive, Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) EuropeDr Jonathan Boyd
Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy ResearchRabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Amy Braier
Director, JHub
Director, Pears Foundation
Dina Brawer (read her article on the polarity between tradition and innovation)
Director, Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (UK)David Brown
Executive Director, Union of Jewish StudentsColin Bulka
Director of Programming, JW3Dr Roy Graham
Director of Programme and Planning, UJIADavid Lerner
Chief Executive, Samuel Sebba CharitableTrustAdam Ognall
Chief Executive, New Israel FundMatt Plen
Chief Executive, Masorti Judaism
Raymond Simonson
Michael Wegier
Chief Executive, JW3
Chief Executive, UJIARabbi Dr Raphael Zarum
Dean, London School of Jewish Studies