Jewish Parents Forum

In the fall of 2021, Tikvah launched the Jewish Parents Forum to create a center of gravity for parents grappling with a variety of challenges as they raise their children in the current cultural minefield.
American Jewry today finds itself at an extraordinary inflection point in our nation’s cultural and political history. As a result, many Jewish parents feel the heightened responsibility and pressing need to prepare their children to flourish in the face of the unique challenges of the moment.
The hard truth is that we are living through a genuine crisis in American culture and education that has left Jewish parents concerned and hungry for answers to exceedingly difficult questions:

• In this polarized cultural climate, how do we raise the next generation of Jewish and Zionist leaders with moral confidence and civic courage?
• How do we educate our children to appreciate the heroic history of modern Israel when anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic ideas have made new inroads in the institutions to which we entrust our children?
• How do we respond when values we wish to instill in our homes conflict with values taught in our children’s institutions?

The cultural and intellectual hour in which we find ourselves–fraught and with a fledgling moral center–opens up a space that the Jewish Parents Forum is ready to fill.