One Congregation Many Voices – Interactive Program, Panel, and Havdalah

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Calling congregants of all ages and generations! Please join us for an intergenerational panel of 20-somethings – 70-somethings who will bring this year’s theme of One Congregation, Many Voices: Arguments for the Sake of Heaven to life by fostering conversations around hot-button issues where there tend to be significant differences across generations within our own community. Babysitting is available, so register today!

In his book Tablets Shattered, Joshua Leifer, a Millennial journalist and graduate student, asks the following questions: Is it possible to live a life defined by Judaism and, at the same time, guided by progressive values? What does it take to sustain a community in an era of disintegration and flux? He challenges us to reach out of our comfort zones, be engaged with people of different generations and different understandings, and consider what it means today in our highly individualized society to create a Jewish community.

We’ll wrestle together with wide-ranging speculative questions such as:

• How do different age cohorts relate to issues like climate change, issues of gender and identity, and engagement with Judaism?
• Given the differences in generational views, what might our Jewish practices look like, ideally (or aspirationally), down the road? How will we organize our community now and into the future?
• How can people of different generations not only coexist in the same community but thrive in our diversity?
• What would it mean to truly “co-generate,” meaning to tackle challenges within our Jewish community by collaborating across generations?

If you want more information on what OCMV is, click here.

 

 

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