Let My People Grow. Hillel and the Jewish Renaissance in the Former Soviet Union

Hillel And The Jewish Renaissance In The Former Soviet Union. 1. Genesis -- Darkness Before The Light -- A Three-hour Read Lasts A Lifetime -- Aliyah -- Mosaic -- Undercover -- 2. Hillel -- The Hebrew University -- The Green Light -- History In The Making -- The Moscow Jewish University -- First Steps And Missteps -- Indigenization -- 3. Beginnings -- The First Rosh Hashanah -- Freedoms Challenge -- The Lamed Vavniks -- First Programs -- Jewish Camping -- What Are Friends For? -- Creating A Lay Board -- 4. I Never A Dull Moment -- Travel In The Fsu -- Traditions -- 5. Watch Out Napoleon! -- Kiev -- Sasha And Dasha -- St. Petersburg -- The Shidduch -- Doing Jewish -- 6. The Formative Period -- The Pesach Project -- How To Conduct A Seder -- The Lunatic Rabbi -- Enter The Rudin Family -- Laying The Groundwork -- 7. Expansion -- Progress -- Kishinev -- Study Mission -- Pesach Project 1997 -- Minsk -- Kharkov And Odessa -- 8. Challenges And Achievements -- Who Is A Jew? -- The Mechanisms Of Survival -- A Magnet -- The Vc Story -- The New Russians -- Jews And The Church -- Kosher Shrimps -- The Fish Rabbi -- The Kosher Meat Market -- Cold Chicken Soup -- 9. The Tefillah Challenge -- Introducing Shabbat -- Shabbat On Wheels -- Prayer Initiative -- Unity In Diversity -- The Kishinev Model -- Hillel's Communal Services -- Morning Prayers -- High Holiday Prayers -- 10. An Unfolding Story -- Common Agenda -- 11. Restructuring -- Expanding The Pesach Experience -- Stages -- Empowerment -- The Answers -- 12. A Timely Evaluation -- Shanah Tovah -- 13. Engagement And Study -- Giraffes In The Cities -- The Elijah Promise -- Target Populations? -- Birth Of Lehrhaus -- Training -- New Year -- Odessa And Kishinev -- The Dreidel Path -- Birthright Israel -- Congress 2000 -- New Hillel Haggadah -- Learning Leadership -- Not Enough Prayer Books -- The Charles Schusterman Zl Leaders Congress -- Sampling Of Programs -- Afikoman -- Brethren Meet -- 15. Analysis And Evaluation -- Local Leadership In Action -- Around The Fsu Lehrhaus Network -- Message Of Freedom -- 16. Visions And Strategies For The Road Ahead -- Am Echad -- Getting Bigger And Bigger -- Around And About -- 17. Ia Visit To Exotic Lands -- Outbidding A Dowry -- The Jewish House -- Tbilisi -- Kutaisi -- The Never-ending Meal -- Epilogue. Yossie Goldman.

Publisher:

Gefen Publishing House

Pages:

219

Date Published:

2020