A Jewish Grand Tour: Should ‘Travel’ Become the Jewish Practice of Our Age?

Jeremy Leigh, Coordinator, Richard J. Scheuer Israel Seminar, HUC/Jerusalem

Despite having let go of the idea of pilgrimage over two thousand years ago, should traveling to sites of Jewish significance – in Europe and Israel – enter our practice as a way embedding connections across time and space? Are there, or could there be, a ‘canon of places’? And by extension, is there is a ‘canon of questions’ to discuss when we get there?