Guidebook for the Museum of the Jewish Future
Agam quote
“I wonder,” said Agam, “why all the museums preserve the past. With our means of communication [we could] become enthusiastic about a place where projects concerning the future, the chrystalization of our future, would be shown and explained…’ as quoted in “Homage to Ya’acov Agam” P. 151
A definition of a Museum from Wikipedia:
“The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public.”
The Museum of the Jewish Future is initially a virtual cyberspace address https://www.thejewishexperiment.org/
“What if any resources do we American Jews have to cope creatively with the crisis of the free choosing individual, a continuous on-going crisis of identity, so long as the developmental frontier generates innovative technologies out of the laws of nature? ..We are a problem solving people.
The goal of the Jewish community must be the individual who “recognizes that Judaism has been the manifold expression of human beings struggling and wrestling with their human problems, and he therefore can enter into the thoughts and feelings of each historical moment and come forth enriched.”
“free to draw on the riches of our past we need no longer be slaves to it. Judaism, for us, is not only a past, but a future.“
A brief internet survey of “the Jewish future”
“There is a robust array of Israeli and global Jewish nonprofits that are doing incredible work around the world. This exciting marketplace of creativity and impact is affording individual philanthropists, foundations, and communities new opportunities to affect change and build a vibrant Jewish future.” (https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/celebrating-the-past-addressing-the-jewish-future/)
“It isn’t just the number of Jews in various communities that makes us optimistic about the Jewish future; it is the infrastructure of the American Jewish community: There are 145 Jewish Federations, more than 200 Jewish Community Centers, 750 national Jewish organizations, and 100 Jewish museums today. Fifty years ago, there were a handful of Jewish museums. There are now 165 Holocaust museums, 155 Jewish overnight camps, 139 national Jewish publications, and about 3,500 synagogues.” (https://momentmag.com/will-jewish-world-look-like-2050)
“I believe that going forward, Israel will be less the central focus of American Jewish life. American Jewish culture—Jewish literature, filmmaking, investigation of Jewish history, social justice practices, giving circles, klezmerfests, and so on, along with new expressions of Jewish religiosity—will take its place. Some of these developments are likely to be very different from what we can anticipate today.” (https://momentmag.com/will-jewish-world-look-like-2050)
The Jewish Experiment
Judaism has always been virtual. Temple, virtual=as if
Scenario building process – to understand the past, and to explore the future
Problems we have solved
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