You are invited to experience the power of coworking including: productive eavesdropping, positive collisions, and unanticipated connections. Join your colleagues from Jewish organizations across San Diego and experience a day in the life of the Jewish Federation of San Diego. Come and go as needed, our coworking days are designed to be flexible to work best with your schedule!
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Jewish Federation of San Diego
4950 Murphy Canyon Rd, San Diego, CA 92123
In lieu of Brain Dates this month, join us for a special lunch and learn session at 12:30pm, “What are Jews talking about when we talk about Israel?” with Rabbi Dr. Joshua Ladon, Director of Education for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
When American Jews talk about Israel, they are also projecting their own notions of what it means to be a Jew and how they think Jews should show up socially and politically. While those conversations have, at times, led to challenging disagreements within the Jewish community, since October 7th, conversations about the nature of Judaism and assumptions of what counts as Jewish have become front-page news. In this session, we are going to break down the way American Jews talk about Israel as a way of unpacking the Jewish values that are often lurking under the surface of these encounters.
Meet our Speaker:
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Ladon is the Director of Education for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where he guides the content and curriculum of national and regional programs to help to ensure our cutting-edge offerings speak to the realities of the Jewish community and the challenges of the Jewish people. An award-winning educator, Joshua previously oversaw programming for Hartman in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Hartman he served as the Dean of Student and Jewish Life at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay.
Joshua received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and subsequently lived in Jerusalem for seven years, completing an MA in Jewish Thought at Tel Aviv University. He also received rabbinic ordination from the Shalom Hartman Institute and a doctorate in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Joshua also teaches in the Interreligious Studies Program at the Graduate Theological Union. His writing has been featured in The New Republic, Religion Dispatches, Shma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and other publications.
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