NewCAJE15

In this workshop, we will create space to consider the ways in which humans divide the world into “we” and “they”; then we will analyzing the roots of antisemitism and how this history connects to its manifestations today. We will explore ways in which developing this understanding for ourselves and our students can inform choices to participate as upstanders in the present.We will learn why humans organize themselves into groups; forming groups is not necessarily bad. However, the same mechanism by which we form healthy groups can be weaponized to form dangerous divisions. Jews and the Jewish community have been ostracized and denigrated for centuries and have long been characterized as outsiders.