“Not one of the hearing and not one of the deaf” by Pamela Deutsch Ido was born in 1968 inTel-Aviv-Jaffa and grew up in Bat Yam. It was only at the age of two and a half, that it was discovered that he was hard ...
Little can be done to prepare for one’s maiden disembarking in Haiti. I (Dr. Naftali Haldberstadt) made the stepwise transition from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion to Madrid where the Spanish Starbucks helped facilitate a shift in mindset. From there, the overnight stop in Santo ...
Despite 62 years of innumerable accomplishments and accolades, Israel has lived in the shadow of existential threat since the creation of the state, and suffers from one of the largest socio-economic gaps in the developed world. Virtually everyone’s well being and resilience is compromised ...
An extension of the SAVI project run by CLICK and the Hod Hasharon municipality was opened for the general public at the Giora community center for the elderly. The SAVI project includes an inspirational handicraft learning center, as well as operating a handicraft ...
There is a growing tendency worldwide to question the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State. Moreover, many Israelis and Jews experience dissonance as they try and reconcile Zionism, Human Rights, Liberalism and defining events in Israeli history. This ideological ambivalence ...
"A Strategy for Immigration Policy in Israel" by Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Liav Orgad and Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, is the basis for a new comprehensive immigration law being drafted by the Government of Israel. To date Israel has not had a general immigration law. The ...
SEA (Social-Economic Academy) in a continued effort to meet the demands of its activists has launched two new courses this spring. The expanded course on the Negev includes elements such as the relationship between the center and the periphery, employment and lack ...
From New York City to Jerusalem to Budapest, participants in the Jewish Social Leadership Training Program gathered in the office of Jerusalem’s Memizrach Shemesh January 4-10 in the first of a series of meetings designed to engage participants from vastly different Jewish communities ...
The Social Economic Academy has been offering a series of lectures aimed at raising awareness not only to the relationship between feminism and economics, but to what is really happening to women economically today. Lectures have to date have taken a look at women in ...
On September 29, 2009, Memizrach Shemesh launched a new parent leadership program aimed at training parent graduates of Memizrach Shemesh Parent Program "Communities Believe in Education" to facilitate community groups and organize within community settings. Program participants learn about group facilitation ...
