The Posen Foundation's mission is rooted in the belief that Jewish education can make a meaningful difference in Jewish life and should be available to all who are interested. To this end, the Foundation works internationally to promote Jewish learning, support academic research into Jewish history and culture, and encourage participation in Jewish cultural life.
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CURRENT NEWS
Posen Foundation - now on Facebook
Keep informed about The Posen Foundation's activities through our new Facebook page. Regular updates cover our seminar programs, articles of interest, and other upcoming events.
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Supporting Secular Jewish Education for Secular Jews
In a recent article in the UK's Jewish Chronicle, Posen Foundation founder Felix Posen discusses the urgent need for secular Jewish education. Although "new statistics confirm [Jews'] march towards secularity," this growing population remains under-served. "Neither leaders nor funders of Jewish education have bothered to address this situation," he writes, despite the fact that now, for the first time, "one can obtain books on the subject of Jewish secularism, its historical and philosophical origins."
Read the full article.
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Posen Foundation Education Project
The Posen Foundation is pleased to announce our series of seminars for 2012.
The first two-day seminar, Not Quite Kosher: Secular Jewish Writers from Kafka to Chabon, will be held in Miami, FL on February 26-27.
The second two-day seminar, Before Night: East European Jewish Life at the Dawn of the 20th Century, will be held in New York on May 13-14.
The six-day seminar, "To Bigotry No Sanction": American Society and Jewish Culture will be held in Santa Barbara, CA from July 8-13.
Additional details and application forms are now available.
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