The Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning
This week I’m blogging over at The Jewish Book Council and on My Jewish Learning (same blog, I mean that they’re cross posting). The first post:Â Celebrating the Global People
Recently, Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish Diaspora announced that it “will completely overhaul its exhibitions in an effort to put Diaspora Jews on an equal footing with those in Israel.†Part of that effort even means that museum is getting a new name: The Museum of the Jewish People.
This development acknowledges that the mindset in Israel has shifted from “the negation of exile,†to the reality that the Jewish People are a geographically and culturally diverse people, a global people. (read the rest)
