The NADAV Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Jewish present and future, in which Jews, wherever they live, feel connected and committed to one another, to their shared history and their common destiny. It is this knowledge based awareness of collective identity that we call Jewish Peoplehood. more>
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Ahad Ha’Am At Last
by Wayne Firestone
As the Zionist prophet predicted, young people born into this global village are still seeking answers to their spiritual questions. Their Jewish heritage can and does provide them with answers, whether they live in Tel Aviv, or Rio, or Kiev or Los Angeles.<...>As educators we can and must strengthen this sense of global Jewish peoplehood and the centrality of Israel.more>
Rebecca Lieberman’s Public and Jewish Journey
by Mark Pearlman
For nearly five years now I’ve had the opportunity to work with the NADAV Foundation — its founder Leonid Nevzlin, and director Irina Nevzlin Kogan — to advance the field of Jewish peoplehood. Our goals apply as much to Jews in Tel Aviv and Paris, as to those in Kiev and Kentucky. more>
The Return of Peoplehood
by Yehudah Mirsky
As ideas go, "peoplehood" is thin, and wide, and best kept that way: not an end in itself but a vessel for the discussion of substantive values, beliefs, and ideals. Like all vessels, this one is home to living, breathing human beings. Unless their welfare and survival are assured, there will be nobody to talk with and nothing to argue about.more>
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Congradulations, Avraham Infeld!
The NADAV Foundation extends warm congratulations to Avraham Infeld, a senior scholar and advisor at the Foundation. Mr. Infeld is receiving Hillel’s Renaissance Award in recognition of his extraordinary service to the Jewish People.more>
Best Practices of Organizations that Build Jewish Peoplehood
The Jewish Peoplehood Hub, a partnership project of the UJA –New York Federation, the NADAV Foundation and the Jewish Agency, has released a research report detailing the response of Jewish community building, educational and religious organizations to the increasing lack of attachment of younger generations of Jews to organized forms of Jewish community and the global Jewish people.more>
Irina Nevzlin Kogan at JFN International Summit
"The new generation of Jewish leaders is trying to incorporate their philosophy and ideology while looking for their own meaning of Jewish Peoplehood", President of the NADAV Foundation Irina Nevzlin Kogan told during a JFN International Summit. more>