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Exploring The Jewish Futures:
A Multidimensional Project On The Future Of Religion,Ethnicity And Civic Engagement
Essays by Participants in the Jewish Public Forum's 2002 Seminar Series
In 2002, the
Jewish Public Forum convened a series of
seminarsThe Future of Family and Tribe,
(January 2002) The Future of Education and Cultural Transmission,
(March 2002) and The Future of Social Change (May 2002) that focused on
some of the most important themes that have emerged in the project to date. Each of these day-long seminars brought together
ten to fifteen participantsanthropologists, rabbis, politicians, scientists,
journalists, historians, and others. Participants are contributing essays on the seminars' themes that will be published by
CLAL, and disseminated broadly to religious leaders, philanthropists, academics, community
leaders, and other opinion-makers.
Links to these essays are listed below.
Seminar I: The Future of Family and Tribe, January 28-29, 2002
Daniel Brenner, The Future of Foreskins
David
Brotherton, "Family Values" and the Latin Queens
Laura Katzive, Shaping a Future for Women in their
Families and Tribes: An Activists View
David Kraemer,
Family and Family Values: Mutable or Immutable?
Robert Neborsky, The
Changing Us
Adam Pertman, Adoption
Riv-Ellen Prell, Memory vs. Markets: The Future of
Jewish Identity
Dan
Reingold, How Will Baby Boomers Age?
Arlene
Skolnick, Toward a New Cultural Common Sense
Dorian Solot, No Ring To It: Considering A Less-Married Future
To read more
about the seminar, click here.
Seminar II: The Future of Education and
Cultural Transmission, March 18-19, 2002
Elizabeth
A. Cole, The Future of American Memory
Libby
Garland, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Present, Past and Future
Joshua Halberstam, A Celebration Of Uncertainty: The Future of
Technological Education
Beth Rubin, Educational
Reform in the Daily Lives of Students
To read
more about the seminar, click here.
Seminar III: The Future Of Social Change, May 20-21, 2002
To read more
about the seminar, click here.
Ruth Messinger, Jewish Service: A New Option for 21st
Century American Judaism
Madeline Lee, Fixing
Democracy, Empowering the Grass Roots
Josh
Mailman, Highly Leveraged Social Change
To learn more about The Jewish Public Forum, click here.
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