Welcome!
Join the growing movement to capture the potential for Jewish and civic engagement during the period from mid-life careers into retirement.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Longevity — A Jewish Communal Response
The Second Annual Active Aging Convening
LINKS TO RECORDINGS OF SESSIONS — CLICK ON EACH TITLE
Active Aging “Hubs”: Creating Coordinated Active Aging Programming—a Panel Discussion
Judaism, Jewishness and Active Aging—A Panel Discussion
Co Generate! Breaking Through Silos and Connecting Active Aging with Purpose, Meaning and Joy
Closing Comments–Ken Dychtwald and S. Jay Olshansky
Next Steps: Update on the Active Aging Network/Moving Forward
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B3 thanks our lead partners
The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan/Wechsler Center for Modern Aging
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA)
and our partners:
OneTable; Rabbinical Assembly; Reconstructing Judaism; Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association; Shomer Collective; Skilled Volunteers for Israel; Synagogue Village Network;
Union for Reform Judaism; United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism;
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah; Yeshivat Maharat; Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Central Conference of American Rabbis; CoGenerate;
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University;
The Cummings Centre (Montreal); DOROT; The Emergent Network;
JCC Association of North America; The Jewish Grandparents Network;
JPRO; LabShul; Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies;
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We also acknowledge the generous support of The Natan Fund and The Sephardic Foundation on Aging
Our Network
A key component of the Active Aging Resource Network is sharing your contact information and active aging-related skill sets with your fellow participants. Your colleagues in the Network can reach out to you – or you to them – to solve problems together, share notes, and move forward.
Active Aging Programs
A number of groups, synagogues and organizations have succeeded in serving the active aging population. Check them out and see if their strategies and programs might work for you.
Our Mission
There has long been a gap in Jewish communal life around the period after mid-life careers. This life stage has been overlooked and under-funded. Program planners and policy makers interested in active aging have generally operated on their own.
Now that is changing: The Active Aging Resource Network is here to help you meet your colleagues worldwide who are developing new insights and information about active aging – and looking for collaborators. Now we can work together to meet the challenges of this emerging life stage–and engage or re-engage the active aging population in Jewish and civic life!
We are grateful for funding and support from The Natan Fund and The Sephardic Foundation on Aging.