Maccabim: Community Leadership in an Expanded Jewish Context

This program is designed to generate leadership that will lead to volunteerism and activism in the Partnership, to give participants knowledge of Israeli culture, and to create a meaningful dialogue between religious and secular on cultural and Jewish identity issues. The program includes three main axes spanning two years: 1. Pluralistic Beit Midrash: Educational meetings based on a study booklet. The Beit Midrash deals with Jewish and Israeli texts, on a historical axis of texts that, speak to each other...from King Solomon to Leah Goldberg, from the Rambam to Alterman. 2. Community Leadership: Study topics such as the nature of the Partnership, Israel Diaspora relations, Israeli civil society, leadership figures, resource mobilization and group work together with a day of study and exposure to Jewish renewal in Israel will lead the group to a voluntary vision and practical action. 3. The Jewish world in the Diaspora: In the second year, the Israeli group will embark on a study trip to Budapest to learn about the emerging Jewish community there.