Schools/organizations newly purchasing The Jewish Lens curriculum and schools/organizations purchasing updated materials are entitled to send up to two educators to one of the upcoming teacher trainings on Monday, August 16 or Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

The Jewish Lens Points at the Midwest, and Beyond

“The Jewish Lens is a vehicle for dialogue and sharing, within classrooms and schools and communities,” said Leor Sinai, Executive Director of the program. “We want to create relationships.”

But it is not only conversations between students and among denominations that The Jewish Lens seeks to achieve.  It is also conversations that add to the Jewish story in its entirety.

“The thread of Jewish life, representing the totality and unity of Jewish peoplehood, exists in each of these photographs individually and collectively,” Rabbi Sinai said. “This dialogue and this Jewish learning and interpretation is an ongoing exercise and something we must continue to take part in for our Jewish values and way of life to remain relevant. It is all a link in the chain of the Jewish narrative that stretches back to our beginnings.”

The "Living Bridge" project is a special partnership between schools in the New York area and schools in Israel that use The Jewish Lens Curriculum as the basis for the cultural exchange program. Through this year long project, teachers and students share what it means to be Jewish in the U.S.A. and in Israel. 

The Jewish Lens - Milwaukee Community Wide project, in collaboration with The Coalition for Jewish Learning, will host an exhibition-reception on Tuesday, May 11, 7-9pm at the JCC.

“Many times, I think that the reason I go and highlight small communities around the world is …. kind of a dahaf, an impulse, to give weight, to give legitimacy to these communities that are part of Jewish peoplehood."

Read more of Zion Ozeri's interview with Milwaukee's Jewish Chronicle!