A Wellspring program for young adults
The Edward Fein Winter Student Seminar is the premier program for students to engage with the challenges and opportunities facing Israel and the Jewish people through the lens of Jewish texts, values, and ideas. Our ideologically, religiously, and politically pluralistic community of Jewish students from college and university campuses across North America address these important questions with depth and nuance.
Israel has been talked around and talked about a lot this past year, and many of those conversations seem to respond to an essential question: is Israel oppressed or is it the oppressor? But this is not a new discussion. Not only has it been a long-standing conversation in Jewish tradition throughout history, but since the founding of the State of Israel the question of power and powerlessness has taken on a new immediacy.
This seminar will interrogate what it means for Israel to have power and what it means for North American Jews to have power, while also investigating the ways in which Israel and the Jewish people still experience powerlessness.
The program includes plenary sessions and electives with renowned Hartman faculty and scholars, an educational field trip to witness the profound impact of October 7 and the resulting war, and programs with Israeli leaders who are mobilizing Israeli society and turning Hartman ideas into action.
December 26, 2024 – January 2, 2025 at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel
Open to Jewish college students ages 18 to 23 on campuses across North America. Questions about eligibility? Please contact Avigail Schneiman.
This highly subsidized fellowship includes lodging, meals, retreat expenses, educational materials, and a $1500 flight stipend. Students/campuses are asked to contribute $500 toward participation. Full and partial scholarships are available. Cost should not be a barrier to participation.
Please contact Avigail Schneiman for more details.
Aug 3, 2022
Working with college students on Israel conversations can be fraught, but it can also be transformative.
We are grateful to the Edward Fein Foundation for their generous support of this program.