This activity aims to examine attitudes of participants towards the idea of belonging to the wider Jewish community. Is it a positive or negative experience for them? Is it a meaningful or meaningless part of their identity?

Participants will explore the place of Jewishness within their own identities and consider the ways it is both situated in the “self” and goes beyond it as well.

To explore the essential features of the Jewish collective through the lens of anthropologists studying a tribe. When looking from the outside in, what are the core features of the Jewish tribe? Across all of our ‘sub-tribes’ what are our common values?

Participants will explore the key aspects of collective belonging with regard to how it relates to the Passover Haggadah.

Participants will use poetry and metaphor to understand the multiple dimensions of the concept “The Jews”.

To provoke participants to consider their reaction to someone who discovers they are Jewish and confronts them about it.

Participants will consider which events in Jewish history are worth remembering with the same sense of importance as we remember the story of the Exodus from Egypt

Participants will consider what actions we do in our day to day lives that can make identifying with the Jewish people a meaningful practice.