THE TIKVAH FUND’S BEREN SUMMER SEMINARS

"To be able to affiliate with a thoughtful, engaged, and intelligent organization that aligns with my mission is fulfilling and gives me hope!"

"I really enjoyed this seminar. It pushed me to really challenge my own beliefs and assumptions and revealed a lot of contradictions in my own thinking."

"I had a really incredible opportunity to spend two weeks debating American and Jewish identity...What was incredibly eye-opening was the very serious debate between Jews in Israel and Jews in the US about whether or not Jews in the United States can fulfill their Jewish identity without returning to Israel."

ANNIE WATMAN

SERENA FRECHTER

PETER BURNS

“Because of Tikvah, I can critically examine what it means to be a Jew in the modern world."

"Tikvah's seminar provided the unique opportunity to spend two weeks discussing how competing conceptions of Jewish identity relate to everything from political affiliation to views on religious liberty. Few debates are more central to understanding what it means to be an American Jew."

"I would be hard pressed to come up with a political issue on which Tikvah has not influenced my thinking."

BEN SIMON

MATTHEW SAMILOW

ILAN WOLFF