Metsuda Young Leadership Initiative Expands to Caucasus
Ask Nadezhda Kulikova what she learned from attending JDC’s Metsuda program in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and she’ll tell you the four-day youth leadership development seminar “broke” her.
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Q&A With Misha Mitsel, JDC Senior Archivist and Agro-Joint Expert
JDC senior archivist Misha Mitsel’s book “The Final Chapter: The Agro-Joint in the Years of the Great Terror” explores the history of the Agro-Joint, which created Jewish agricultural colonies and industrial schools in southern Ukraine and Crimea during the 1920s and 1930s. Read a Q&A with Mitsel on this both tragic and triumphant time in JDC’s history.
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Israeli Sports Program Helps Heal Relations Between Fathers and Sons
The concept of Father’s Day would not always have come easy for 10-year-old “David,” who lives with his parents and older brothers in a coastal Israeli town north of Tel Aviv.
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In Krakow, A Dynamic Judaism Without Walls Festival
For one night a year, the city’s seven remaining synagogues open themselves up to the public and host everything from a poetry reading to a symbolic multimedia walk through the seven gates of Jerusalem, from a photography exhibition to an Israeli-inspired hummus and grilled vegetable feast in a synagogue courtyard.
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Mourning a True Jointnik
Learn more about Stanley Abramovitch (z"l), a force for good in JDC's world for 65 years, who was the embodiment of the notion that all Jews are responsible for one another. The 93-year-old Abramovitch was buried in Israel today.
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Community Center in Israel Gives Asylum Seekers New Place to Call Home
By the time Eisa Abaker, 28, left Sudan at age 19, he’d seen things with his own eyes most people will never even read about. “People were killed, children died, there were massacres, and whole villages were destroyed. I had problems with the government, with their treatment of people. I left Sudan because it was impossible to keep living there.”
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Creating Jewish Identity on Budapest’s Bustling Streets
“Judafest Juniors is a unique event where positive Jewish identity is created for families and young children through inventive activities,” explains Agi Kardos, a mother of two who grew up during the socialist regime in Hungary in a traditional Jewish family—something very unusual for her generation. “Many people who are not ready to attend other kinds of Jewish programs are warmly welcomed here; and it’s accessible to non-Jews, giving our community a chance to open up to Budapest’s larger society, too.”
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A Helping Hand Transforms Jewish Teen in Tbilisi
Liah, 16, is in 11th grade and already knows she wants to be a defense lawyer. She is eager to help people, because she knows firsthand a stranger’s assistance can mean the difference between life and death.
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Aiding Bulgaria’s Families in Crisis
As she was turning 16 this year, Jackey wished she could look forward to a bright future full of possibilities. But coming of age during Bulgaria’s economic decline has left her feeling far less certain about her opportunities.
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Healthy Living Program Gives Israeli Youth a Fresh Start
Two years ago, Odet, 19, was in the midst of a deep personal crisis. Born and raised in a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Jerusalem, she was finishing school and looking ahead at the next chapter of her life—one that would imminently lead to marriage and children.