Resources
Free Community Screening & Discussion Guide Available here as PDF:
Between Two Worlds discussion guide (PDF)
Printable Poster:
Full-size Between Two Worlds Poster
Reflections on Touring with Between Two Worlds:
- Director Deborah Kaufman’s Tikkun essay “The Jewish Community’s Drift Towards the Right”
http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/the-jewish-communitys-drift-toward-the-right - Director Alan Snitow’s Tikkun essay “An American Jewish Identity Crisis”
http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/an-american-jewish-identity- crisis
On the future of the American Jewish community:
- Jack Wertheimer v. Joey Kurtzman – an entertaining and illuminating debate about “The End of the Jewish People” – a series of 4 articles from Jewcy:
http://www.jewcy.com/religion-and-beliefs/joey1
On entitlement and Jewish identity:
- Jay Michaelson— a moving argument for broader inclusion in the Jewish community -“The Myth of Authenticity” from The Forward:
http://www.forward.com/articles/121663
On relations between young American Jews and Israel:
- Peter Beinart - a penetrating criticism of why young Jews are alienated from Zionism – “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” from the New York Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/
On recent censorship in the American Jewish community:
Kaufman and Snitow Op-Ed in the Forward on new Federation Guidelines
- A Chill in San Francisco – Forward.com Op-Ed (PDF)
- A Chill in San Francisco – Forward.com Op-Ed (HTML)
An ad from Bay Area Jews protesting censorship by the Jewish Federation:
- WARNING Forward Ad (image)
- WARNING Forward Ad (PDF)
“I’m Going to Count to Three, and Then All Rabbis Need To Get Out Of My Uterus”
- Hannah Farber wrote this post in 2008 on the J Spot blog site. She was objecting to a recent rabbinic call for Jewish women to have more babies. Her post sparked dozens of responses from many perspectives:
http://www.jspot.org/diary/1671/
