Art Kibbutz NYC’s First-Ever Global Shofar FlashMob
A unique global project at the nexus of sound, spirit and technology

By Patricia Eszter Margit
 
Art Kibbutz NYC’s first public event – the global Shofar FlashMob – took place in seventeen cities around the world, creating the glorious cacophony envisioned by its founders…and then some.

Seeing Arabs and Immigrants Would Build Real Commitment

American Jews would benefit from listening to Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie. In a recent talk, Adichie explained that “it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person.” Only when American Jewry exposes its youth to all the stories that make up Israeli society will we be able to remove the indifference that has built up over decades of recounting only one story. Living in fear of exposing our community to the complexity of Israel is backfiring and is resulting in a generation of disengaged Jews. By purposefully keeping ourselves in the dark, by hiding from the reality of Israel, we are robbing ourselves of our homeland.

Didi Silberman, a young Israeli social entrepreneur connected to both PresenTense and the ROI Community, has won a 1.4 million NIS grant, jointly funded by Israel’s National Insurance Institute’s (Bituach Leumi) Children and Teenagers-at-Risk fund and Bezeq. Silberman’s project is at the nexus of environmental activism, technology education and hesed.