The Hope Kit

A Peoplehood Education Program for Jewish professionals, educators and leaders to:

• Practice Intentional Hope
• Tell a Global Jewish Narrative
• Build Global Jewish Resilience 

Hope is the ability to work towards“The Day After” even in the darkest of times. It is a vital component to navigate and lead in a crisis.  Hope is a necessary element of resilience.  And the story one tells is what exposes this hope to light.

October 7 broke the Jewish people’s previous narrative. To cope, we are all rapidly recrafting our own separate versions.  Now is the time to lead the way in telling a new, confident, and shared global narrative that practices hope and builds resilience.

To receive the Hope Kit, you can register at the bottom of the page, and you will receive an email with everything you need to continue with us.

October 7 broke the Jewish people’s previous narrative.  To cope, we are all rapidly recrafting our own separate versions. 

Now is the time for Jewish professionals, educators, and professionals to lead the way in telling a new, confident, and shared narrative that practices hope and builds resilience. For this purpose, the Tisch Center created a Hope Kit. 

The Hope Kit provides users with framing, tools, and resources to find the hope in this crisis in order to generate the resilience necessary to lead one's community and organization through this time and bring about the “Day After.” The Hope Kit has three separate and interconnected elements:

• Organize a Webinar
• Read the Playbook
• Lead a workshop with your staff and community
• Book a personal consultation

October 7 and its Aftermath: From Hope to Resilience to a new Global Jewish Narrative

Participants will gain

• A framing of the post-October 7 period and its global Jewish implications.
• New tools and resources to find hope and build resilience through the stories we tell.
• Overview of how to utilize the Tisch Center's newly launched “Hope Kit,” which includes a playbook, webinar, workshop lesson-plan and training.

Options:

Receive a recording. Book your own webinar directly with us. 

Reach out to Tracy Frydberg at tracy@anumuseum.org.il

A How-To-Guide

The playbook provides a conceptual framework for “October 7 and its Aftermath” – what it means, how we got here, and what to do. It introduces new framing and subsequent terms, all within a “Global Jewish Context” to help organize how the user understands and then responds in this crisis. It concludes by outlining the components of global Jewish resilience and how to tap into them through the practice of narrative. Finally, it will introduce the additional elements of the “Hope Kit” and how they can be utilized for your needs. 

Train the Trainers Model

Version 1:

A facilitated session for a Jewish organization, community, school, or chapter to find hope and practice “Jewish resilience” in the period of “October 7 and its Aftermath” through taking one’s own personal experience in this moment and connecting it in the long-arching oscillating narrative of one’s own family and of the Jewish people. Participants will build their “peoplehood muscles” by being in dialogue with others and having the opportunity to articulate and receive diverse and shared experiences. 

We Provide: A lesson plan and facilitation training. Option to consult with Tisch staff to adapt for specific needs

Audience:  16 and up, Teens, college students, community members

Time: 45-75 minutes

Version 2:

A workshop aimed at young teens to build “Jewish resilience” and to allow them to see that the Jewish people have had a long and oscillating narrative by using stories and artifacts from ANU – the Museum of the Jewish People. By discovering these stories of survival and resilience from our history, Jewish students will be able to build strength and hope that the tragic events that happened to the Jewish people on 7 October 2023 and subsequent giant wave of antisemitism around the world, too shall pass. The workshop will also leave the students with 5 tools to give them “chizuk – strength” to use now and into the future: 

Audience: Jewish students ages 13+ either at school, youth movements, Hebrew schools, congregations, or camps.

Time: 60 minutes