“For me, receiving the 2011 award for Contribution to the Community at the Sderot Conference for Community service was completing the circle.” By Pamela Deutsch Born in 1975, Daniel lived in Jerusalem through 8th grade, and then moved with his family to Shdemot Meholah in the ...
Located in central Israel, not far from the Ben Gurion International Airport, the Ben Shemen Youth Village is home to over 400 children. Founded in 1927, Ben Shemen is renowned for its long tradition of student-centered education. The campus houses three schools ...
By Pamela Deutsch reporting from the Ben Shemen Youth Village “My own children may currently be out of the country, but I am fortunate as I have 400 children to love.” Ilana Tischler, knows the name of almost every child in the village. The names she ...
"Through Green Courses' Chapter Director's Forum one truly learns the hands on skills necessary for making a change", says Ram Barankin, an MSc student of Marine Biology and the Green Course Chapter Director at Tel-Aviv University. "It is challenging to mobilize and ...
The park surrounding the Ein Zahav spring is the only park and green area in the city. "When the spring had water, there was an abundance of vegetation and wildlife", says Harel Weiss, Green Course chapter director in Tel Hai, “it was like being in the Banyas in the middle of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
More than 1000 people each year die from air pollution related diseases in central Israel alone. This is only the tip of the melting iceberg of Israel’s environmental challenges. Environmental issues need to be addressed at all levels of society, but one ...
Almost a third of all Israelis live beneath the poverty line with more than two million individuals having limited or no computer access. Unable to access computers and acquire basic computer skills, many of these Israelis will remain impoverished, unable to compete with ...
