Here are the materials for your salon group’s winter topic: Building Understanding and Community across Generations. Your salon group’s facilitator will be scheduling your meeting to discuss these materials in January or February. If you are not in a salon group and would like to join one, please email ManyVoices@bethemet.org
First, before your salon group meets, have a conversation with someone from a different generation or age cohort. Discuss and reflect on:
Second, read the materials selected by your salon facilitator(s) in preparation for your salon group meeting. Materials will be drawn from the list below.
Third, we’ll come together for a congregation-wide event on Sunday, March 1, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at Beth Emet to further understand this topic and hear from congregants across generations, followed by havdalah. Register here.
Click here for an overview article of Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory Understanding Political Differences Through Moral Foundations Theory
Watch this 18-minute Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
Read this Short poem https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-place-where-we-are-right/
Read this: Rabbi Andrea London’s D’var Torah and Rabbi Sara Blumenthal’s D’var Torah
At our opening event, Judaic scholar Sefi Kraut, Director of Mahloket Matters at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, will facilitate a congregation-wide workshop tailored for our community on how to have productive and thoughtful difficult conversations with those with whom we are in the community. Drawing on Jewish texts, learnings from social psychology, and practical application, we will explore the skills, mindset, and heartscape necessary to engage with each other on challenging topics for the sake of personal growth and deepened interpersonal connections. The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies is an open, inclusive, diverse, and intellectually challenging Jewish learning community based in Jerusalem with programs worldwide.
Last year’s book groups are morphing into salon-like groups that will meet several times in the winter and spring to use these skills to discuss difficult topics, supplemented by short readings, podcast episodes, film clips, and other multimedia. The first topic we’ll grapple with in our salon groups will be Intergenerational Differences. How can the different generations that make up a family – or a synagogue – learn from each other on topics over which they disagree? Stay tuned for more information.
