Seminars in Israel


	Seminars in Israel
	THE BEUTEL SEMINAR FOR PROGRESSIVE JEWISH LEADERSHIP
	The Israel Study Kallah
	The Roswell Seminar for Social Justice
	The Bergman Seminar for Progressive Jewish Educators
	The Prayer and Spirituality Institute


	Upon the death of his master Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotsk was asked what had been most to his teacher. To which he replied ,"whatever he was doing at the moment."

The Bergman Seminar for Progressive Jewish Educators

"Creating Meaningful Connections."

July 4 - 14 2013

The Seminar

The Bergman Seminar for Progressive Jewish Educators is an intensive 10-day program for Progressive Jewish Educators from around the world, combining classroom and text study with site visits in Jerusalem and around Israel that will bring the texts and ideas to life.

The seminar’s multidisciplinary curriculum incorporates several conceptual approaches to culture, spirituality, language, history and memory. The seminar will focus on the multitude of Jewish narratives inside and outside the Land of Israel, and play off the creative tension that has existed between Israel and Diaspora communities throughout Jewish history as well as today. The faculty will include some of Israel’s finest teachers, offering an extraordinary opportunity for intellectual exploration.

Price: $1000 Including hotel, program and most meals. Not including airfare. Limited subsidies available.

For more information contact the Saltz Center saltz@wupj.org.il

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Participants
By meeting and studying with fellow educators from around the Jewish world, seminar participants connect with Progressive Jewish communities worldwide, form powerful bonds with the State of Israel and strengthen their own educational and pedagogical skills as well as Jewish knowledge.

Participants come from communities around the world: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

Skills
The seminar challenges and motivates Jewish educators about Israel and world Jewry, creating a deep and meaningful connection to bring back to share with their students. The seminar emphasizes the three central components of Jewish existence-the Jewish people, the Torah and the Land of Israel. Participants will gain

knowledge about Israel as a Jewish state, a deeper understanding of Jewish history, diverse pedagogical skills and methods through learning from each other, communications skills in interacting with other cultures, Jewish textual skills and liturgical skills.

Seminar Follow-Up
The purpose of the Bergman Seminar is to allow educators to connect with Israel and with world Jewry on both a professional and personal level. The seminar offers a variety of approaches to teaching about Israel and Diaspora through the lens of Progressive Judaism. After the seminar, participants will return to their educational institutions and classrooms with a deeper knowledge, a stronger sense of commitment and a greater understanding of the complexity of the Jewish state and the Jewish World. Once back in their educational settings educators will employ the curricula that they developed while on the seminar.

Bergman Progressive Jewish Educators’ Seminar Sample Itinerary - subject to change

Thursday 4 July

Dinner at Beit Shmuel
Welcome program at Beit Shmuel With Rabbi Steve Burnstein, Rabbi Joel Oseran and Paul Liptz
Aims & Goals of program and ice breakers

Overnight: Mercaz Shimshon

Friday 5 July

Breakfast
Visit to Haas Promenade: Creative Tfila and Tour of the Old City: "Yearning for Jerusalem" Jewish Texts vs. Jewish Reality With Rabbi Steve Burnstein and Paul Liptz
Travel to Machane Yehuda market
Machane Yehuda – Slowing down for Shabbat in a Jewish Democratic State
Conversation with Rabbi Miri Gold at Kibbutz Gezer about women rabbis in Israel
Kabbalat Shabbat Tfilot, at Kibbutz Gezer
Shabbat Dinner at Gezer