Becca Linden


Becca Linden graduated from Wesleyan University with High Honors and is currently working at Jerusalem for Encounter—
an organization that exposes Jewish leaders and educators to Palestinian life and to Jews from various political and  denominational backgrounds.

 

Articles by Becca Linden

Get Them Young

The Emerging Jewish Teen Philanthropy Movement
Becca Linden>>Thu Oct 15, 2009

Teens cannot drive. They cannot vote. But now hundreds of Jewish teens are pooling and donating their post-bar/ bat mitzvah resources and skills every year, and they are being taken seriously by the nonprofits vying for their money. In other words, these teens are taking on significant personal and communal responsibility.

 

Wrestling With God in Bethlehem

Seventy-One Faces
Becca Linden>>Fri Aug 21, 2009

The rabbis of the Talmud write, “There are seventy faces to the Torah: Turn it around and around, for everything is in it” (Bamidbar Rabba 13:15).

In theory, this message of coexistence at the core of our religious beliefs is helpful when living in fractioned Israel/Palestine, a zone with infinite truths, and often conflicting narratives: all are true, and none are complete.

 
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