Widening the Frame: Rethinking How We Understand Impact in Jewish Learning
The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
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The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
From the Foundation Team
When a Jewish person is killed thousands of miles away, Jews around the world often feel it as a personal loss. Not symbolically. Not intellectually. Personally.
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In a world sprinting toward quick answers, Judaism offers a harder path: hold the full picture, stay in the questions, honor multiple truths and refuse to flatten complexity. Wrestling with ideas isn’t a glitch in our tradition. It is the soul of it.
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The Foundation's first principles—a guide for the team’s approach—offered me a playbook and structure during a fast-moving, evolving re-onboarding period at the Foundation over the past six months.
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The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
From the Foundation Team
We ask people to work in a storm that’s battering all of us from every angle. If we don’t start protecting and replenishing them now, there won’t be enough of them left to rebuild whatever comes next.
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Part of my onboarding is to increase my understanding of the multifaceted American Jewish community while using my experience from Mexico (and other countries where I’ve had the privilege to live and study) to enhance my work.
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I urge us to pour more and more resources into camps, day schools, trips to Israel, youth groups and the many other experiences that all have significant data proving strong outcomes.
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Our team is adopting a shift to more nuanced language that builds on prior research and focuses on the many diverse and divergent ways Jewish people orient themselves to their Jewishness and to formal Jewish community.
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Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
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As part of our Emergent Strategy at the Jim Joseph Foundation, we have a desire to explore new and more effective pathways in understanding and practicing Jewish education
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The Foundation has also integrated cross-portfolio evaluation into more of our work to learn about shared outcomes across different sets of grantee-partners.
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As the Foundation’s grants to these communities conclude, we are eager to advance this work in different ways. While our local partners on the ground continue to cultivate important relationships with an eye on sustainability, we want to share learnings…