Covenant in Action
March 1, 2010 | Location: Atlanta, GA | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEOPacific Atlanta, GA – Over at the Marcus Jewish Community Center here, visitors might be forgiven for thinking they’ve walked into some sort of fashion show...[more]
February 5, 2010 | Location: Pacific Grove, CA | Category: Covenant in Action
SLIDESHOWPacific Grove, CA – This is about so much more than chicken noodle soup...[more]
Ravsak’s Moot Beit Din: Students Tackle Real Life Halakhah
November 25, 2009 | Location: New York, NY | Category: Covenant in Action
SLIDESHOWNew York, NY – Hannah Sosebee enjoys Talmud study, has a penchant for debate and public speaking, and avidly follows issues of the day...[more]
July 16, 2009 | Location: San Francisco, CA | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEOSan Francisco – Getting inside teenagers’ heads isn’t so easy. But give them a creative outlet, and you’ll be flooded by what flows out. Perspectives. Insights. Unspoken truths. And a burgeoning maturity that astounds. Take 17-year-old Doria Charlson, for instance. She just graduated from high school and is bound for...[more]
Jun 15, 2009 | Location: Mill Valley, CA | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEOMill Valley, CA – For an 18-minute film, it’s sure created lots of buzz. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It’s been screened at dozens more. It’s picked up prestigious awards. It hit the top of the ITunes most downloaded short film chart. It appears in eight languages. And the half million-plus people who’ve seen it all want to talk about it...[more]
Apr 29, 2009 | Location: San Francisco, CA | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEOSan Francisco – Auschwitz. Darfur. Rwanda. Bosnia. Cambodia. Disparate places. Varying tolls. Different methods. But for us, still, the common challenge of comprehension, response and resisting powerlessness. For those struggling to connect the dots, choreographer Liz Lerman poses difficult questions in venues across the continent, from schools and performance halls and educator conclaves, to the Library of Congress and United Nations conferences...[more]
Apr 7, 2009 | Location: New York, NY | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEONew York – Never underestimate the ability of an 83-year-old immigrant from Moldova to set a room on fire. So it was in the social hall at one Lower East Side apartment building in late March, when Zmira Rabinovich dropped her matzah, grabbed a microphone, and belted out a series of uplifting Yiddish songs in a deep, hearty voice and gave the crowd a show...[more]
Mar 24, 2009 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Category: Covenant in Action
VIDEOLos Angeles – She’s a freshman in high school, and considers herself a play-by-the-rules sort of straight arrow, keeping her grades up, participating in extracurricular activities and choosing her friends with care.
Still, she knows a road of temptation tends toward a dangerous, shadowy path. And this, she wants to avoid...[more]
Still, she knows a road of temptation tends toward a dangerous, shadowy path. And this, she wants to avoid...[more]
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