The Midrasha is the Smol Enuni’s activist incubator and community generator. In its flagship two-week intensive seminar, participants explore through lectures about the conflict, meetings with activists, and Torah study. Through these avenues, the Midrasha  seeks to create a Jewish language of reconciliation, equality, peace and justice. In our outlook, we attempt to combine a commitment to tradition and spirituality with our moral and political responsibility for the reality in which we live. Drawing on people from different sectors of society who unite through a shared desire to grow politically while grounding in Jewish thought, we build a new Jewish identity which seeks to promote interreligious dialogue, encounter, and partnership, especially with the Palestinians among whom we live. 

The Midrasha was born out of a pressing need for a faith space which connects Jewish identity with humanistic and outwardlooking values. At the heart of our approach is the belief that a central role of Judaism is to challenge the power of violence, to establish a language of compassion and reconciliation.

The centerpiece of the Midrasha  is the Jewish bookcase – not as a symbol of authority or nostalgia, but as a living space of inquiry, controversy and the creation of meaning. Study in the Midrasha seeks to look to Jewish sources not as closed answers, but as a rich repository  that allows us to ask anew: What is justice? What is identity? And what obliges us as people and as a community? In a fractured and complex reality, shared study becomes an act of correction – communal, religious and spiritual. Alongside Jewish study, the School devotes significant space to an in-depth study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a dual-narrative perspective. We don’t attempt to to compare experiences or erase gaps, but to enable an honest acquaintance with the story of the other – and with the shadows in our own story. Hearing, reading, and dwelling in the pain of others is a moral act, and also a necessary condition for any political or spiritual correction. The dual-narrative perspective seeks to  expand the heart – and to bring the human back to the center.

In the political reality of recent years, society in general, and Israeli religious society in particular, has been moving away from the values ​​of justice and reconciliation. Jewish public discourse speaks of power and sovereignty, and the younger segments of the religious community hardly encounter other narratives. The Midrasha arose out of a sense of moral, spiritual, and historical responsibility. Out of a vital and urgent need, in other words, for a religious seminary that seeks to offer a path of religious responsibility, accountability and commitment to the other