March 2026
Primary Sources as a Portal to Jewish Peoplehood
To learn through primary sources is to enter a portal into a different context and move from a spectator to an active participant in the Jewish story.
Shuvi Hoffman is Global Jewish Education Manager at The National Library of Israel. She is a “Revivim” graduate, an honors program in Hebrew University, where she received her BA in Jewish studies and her MA in Biblical studies. She was the Revivim Alumni Coordinator and for almost a decade served as a Pedagogical Mentor in the program. She worked as a Tanach and Jewish Philosophy teacher at Tali Beit Chinuch School, Jerusalem and was head of Jewish Studies. While teaching she wrote Jewish studies curriculum and teachers guides. In addition, she has worked as a teachers’ mentor in Shalom Hartman Institute and in David Yellin college. She spent two years in NY teaching Hebrew and Tanach at SAR High School as a WZO emissary, as well as teaching at “Drisha”’s summer programs. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband Eitan and their 5 children.
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