Recorded August 6, 2025

Ilsa Pinkson-Burke and Briane Pinkson grew up going to “shula”, a Cooperative Jewish Children’s School teaching Jewish history, ethics, art, music, and politics – everything except Hebrew, liturgy, or religion. The school was in the tradition of their parents and grandparents, Yiddish-speaking “left-wingers from the twenties and thirties”. Most weekends they all went to political demonstrations, andonce – once – they made a field trip to a synagogue. Today, both sisters feel a need to reenforce their sense of Jewish community and to learn more about the history of Israel, while distancing themselves from Zionism.Episode 5 Notes:

·      Rabbi Dov Taylor leads Chavurat ki-tov and canbe reached at [email protected]  

·      Jewish Voice for Peace, New Hampshire/Vermont Chapter: “We envision a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.”

o  Organizational responses to the suffering andstarvation in Gaza:

• Statement from the Reform Movement
• Statement from the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly
• Statementfrom 80 Orthodox Rabbis (unlike the other statements, this one was international and signed by individuals)
• Israeli military and security leaders strongly denounce government-directed military action in Gaza, demand an end to pointless death and destruction, and a deal to return the hostages
• Artists and intellectuals: much reporting on statements, overt or covert boycotts, and reactions from within Israel. Hard to trace back to the statements by artists and intellectuals.

Camp Kinderland “Summer camp with a conscience since 1923”