By Zev Dever

feel old in the youth movement (hard to be a Zionist who can't grow a beard). So what this really brought to mind was the idea of youth. I read this as saying that only those who were the youth of a new generation could be able to create the new society that would be the people of Israel. This could fit nicely into our love affair with youth #GilBrowdyispeterpan.

It feels like it's been a conversation in the movement of late whether only taking responsibility for young children's education is really taking responsibility for the Jewish people, but a response could be that it's obvious that the youth are the ones capable of, and suited for, creating an alternative future. What do yall think? do we need to reach out and into older circles of Jewish community (which do dominate the public sphere) or should we happily strengthen our confidence in our methods, and re-enforce the youth communities we do have. #movetoLosAngeles #Excessofleadershipmyass

In Habonim We use this to feel that we are taking responsibility for the future, but at the same time, god didn't wait for a whole generation to pass; The youth that had been in Egypt were left be the elders by the time the Jews would enter canaan. So what does this say? that only the youth could create a new Jewish peoplehood and society, but this could only be done responsibly with those who still had a memory of the past (obvi we need to remember being gerim (strangers) right?). So what i got was that one must be youthful and revolutionary to create a new society, but a revolutionary logic can only be made with a knowledge of and context in the past it comes out of. In the movement we get stoked on taking responsibility for the future, but do we do a good job of grounding this in a critical understanding of our past?

yes. yes we do.

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