What is a Friends of The New Jewish Academy and how will it work?
Boston and New York Friends groups will lend financial, and operational support to THE NEW JEWISH ACADEMY, and advocates for it in their communities.
A Suggested Giving Framework for FRIENDS OF THE NEW JEWISH ACADEMY appears below.
The Kaplan Circle: $1.8K to $3.5K Mordechai Kaplan pioneered the understanding that Judaism is not only a religion, but an entire civilization. In other words it is a broad and deep precious legacy that we cannot afford to lose.
The Shakla V’etarya Society: $3.6K to $5.9K These Aramaic words, shakla (taking) and v’etarya (and giving) refer to the back-and-forth movement of persons in deep conversation (listening and reply, listening and reply, where the questions are as important as the answers). Shakla V’etarya is characteristic of Jewish civilization at its best.
Abraham Joshua Heschel Society: $6K to $9.9K “More than textbooks we need text-people” I Asked for Wonder, 1983. Syntax slightly altered.
The Song of Songs Society: $10K to $99.9K “Love can outrun Death – Azah K’Mavet Ahavah,” Song of Songs 8:6, a creative translation.
Judith Plaskow Society: $100K to $249.9K Plaskow’s clarion call for women to “stand again at Sinai” was the perfect note to hit in 1990, and was instrumental in bringing women alienated from the Jewish experience back to the literary sources of Jewish civilization.
The Alasdair Macintyre Society: Founding Members and Foundations giving 250K and above become members of the Alasdair MacIntyre Society. MacIntyre famously defined a tradition as “an historically extended, socially embodied argument…about the goods which constitute” the way of life of those having it. A living tradition is a dynamic, self-correcting trans-generational conversation about its own foundations, values, and purposes. Of its participants it asks a pilgrimage, the exact destination being part of what’s contested between the various parties that inevitably form. Nevertheless, in a healthy tradition, the parties engage in the argument “for the sake of heaven,” and feel privileged for having the opportunity to do so.
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Thank you for your interest in THE NEW JEWISH ACADEMY!