Lauren Berkun
Rabbi Lauren Berkun is a Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she directs Rabbinic Initiatives and is a member of the senior executive team. She also oversees staff education, training and curriculum development for Hartman’s iEngage project. She is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of Princeton University with a BA in Religion and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lauren was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, a
The Jewish people have moved in less than a century from a people with a consciousness of having no home, to a people that have two homes – in Israel and in North America. This introductory session examines the stories we have told about ourselves throughout history, and ask whether we need a new grand narrative, a new meta-story, of Jewish Peoplehood today?
This session is part of a global online course exploring the relationship between Israel and World Jewry through the iEngage series Together & Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood.
