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- Article: Guidelines For Successful Israel Education
By Susan A. Ticker
This page presents some findings about the design of successful Israel education programs in North America. Each of its thirteen guidelines, such as Articulate and Integrate, are words which end in "-ate". They are an English language wordplay on the Hebrew word "et", meaning "time", which figures so prominently in the opening quotation from Kohelet. The overall theme is that "taking the time to make it real" can pay off in more compelling Israel educational programming.
- Class Activity: Flag And Graffiti: A Photo Lesson About Israel
By Rabbi Shai Gluskin
Students study a photo taken in Jerusalem of a street sign whose Arabic letters have been crossed out by graffiti. Tough questions help students to consider difficult questions about living in a Jewish state.
- Dvar Torah: Adjusting to New Narratives
By Rabbi Shai Gluskin
This dvar-Torah looks at the idea of the role of changing narrative in human experience. "There arose a Pharoah who knew not Joseph" is compared to the demise of the kibbutz movement as we know it and how we make meaning of this change. It's looked at through the personal experience and a recent trip of the author.
- Dvar Torah: Examining Justifications for the State of Israel
By Syd Nestel
In this dvar-Torah for Parashat Shoftim, Syd Nestel using Deuteronomy's description of an idealized Israelite society as a jumping point for examing modern justifications for the State of Israel.
- Essay: "All Things Considered" Israel commentary
By Janice Fine
This is a transcript of Janet Fine's comments about Israel that were originally broadcast in NPR's "All Things Considered" in April 2002. She tells her story of daring to speak out against the Jewish mainstream in support of both the creation of a Palestinian state and the continued liberation of the Jewish people.
- Essay: Reflection on My Recent Trip to Israel
By Rabbi Moti Rieber
Moti Rieber, who lived in Israel for four years in the mid-to-late 1990s, reflects on his trip to Israel with the JRF Leadership Mission in January 2002 and reports on pessimism, the peace process and suffering on all sides.
- Essay: Reflections on the JRF 2002 Leadership Mission to Israel
By Dr. David Teutsch
Rabbi David A Teutsch, President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, writes of his journey on the January 2002 JRF Leadership Mission to Israel, meeting the RRC students there, some remarkable achievements, and how we are working to strengthen our relationships with Israel.
- Other: Sampling of JRF Statements on Israel, 1948 - 2000
By JRF
Three brief samples of JRF statements about Israel, from 1948, 1988, and 2000.
- Prayer: Prayer for the State of Israel
By JRF
Prayer for the State of Israel as it appears in the Kol Haneshama Siddur.
- Program Description: Israel In Our Lives: Life-Long Learning About The Land Of Israel
By Steve Burnstein
A curriculum for Israel education from early childhood through old age. Burnstein encourages people of all ages to connect to the Land of Israel through language, liturgy, song, trips and relationships.
- RT Article: America in Israeli Eyes - After September 11
By Rabbi Amy Klein
Dealing with terrorism in two societies
- RT Article: Hope, If Not Optimism
By Rabbi Amy Klein
Contemplating Israel's future
- RT Article: Israel's Arava Institute Endures and Grows
By Joysa Winter
Joysa Winter's article reports on Israel's Arava Institute and the people who study there. All share the passion that makes environmental values cross political ones.
- RT Article: Pregnant in Israel
By Rabbi Amy Klein
When a woman's body becomes "public property"
- Text Compilation: Prayers and Songs for Israel
By Rabbi Amy Klein
A collection of poems, prayers and songs for Israel, many by Reconstructionist rabbis and congregants.
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