Fresh look at American-Israeli Jewish kinship at Z3 conference – J.
Roughly 85 percent of world Jewry lives either in the United States or Israel. But while bound by ancestry, heritage and religion, American and Israeli Jews today often find themselves culturally, politically and spiritually siloed. Even at odds. A new program launched in the Seattle area aims to combat that. The program, Hidabrut, was featured Dec. 10 at this year’s entirely online Z3, an annual conference organized by the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. “So many of the discussions about Israeli and American Jews focus on the things that divide us,” said Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, a longtime...
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