Beit+Knesset+Ashkenaz

The //Abraham Meets Dorothy: There's No Place Like Home Family Education and Chessed Program// is an initiative that is based upon the fundamental assumption that most of our members have left their home of origin in order to settle in the national historic Home of the Jewish people. We have all made the move from Dorothy to Abraham, so to speak. Our initiative is centered around the theme of the “many homes we live in as Jews.” What are the homes that we live in? What are our obligations to our other family members in all of these different homes? How do we create new Jewish homes? These are some of the questions we plan to explore. The project will be an integrated and systemic family education program and will combine study both formal and experiential, social action and touring (with Israel as our “playground”). We will explore our obligations to our fellow family members by utilizing the central Jewish lifecycle events as a springboard to impart core Jewish values such as Tzedaka, Bikkur Cholim, Chessed, etc.