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CELEBRATE ISRAEL’S2GETHER!PARTNERSHIP 70TH 2GETHER A Look at Leading P2G Programs Across Israel and Around the Globe Summer 2018 Table of Contents Celebrate Israel’s 70th 2Gether! 4 Partnership2Gether/Global School Twinning Network Interconnections Conference 6 Facing the Future of Jewish Peoplehood: A Strategic Collaboration with the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs 6 Sharing Across All Partnerships: P2G Learning Sessions 7 Global school twinning network 8 Extending the Partnership with the Ministry of Education & Ministry of Diaspora Affairs RoboTwin: The Eilat-Eilot—Toronto STEM Program Partnership2Gether: Update on New Initiatives 10 248 Community Action Network G2: Global Intergenerational Initiative My 5! Support for Religious Streams 14 A Look at Leading P2G Programs Across Israel and Around the Globe 16 Formal and Informal Education 16 Kiryat Gat-Lachish-Shafir—Chicago: Israeli Children Zone Dimona—Network of Independent Communities: Lunch and Learn Center Zichron Yaakov—South Palm Beach: School Twinning Shoham—Memphis: School Twinning Yerucham—Miami: Robotics Philadelphia—Netivot–Sedot Negev: StudioLab Teens and Young Adults 20 Western Galilee—Central Area Consortium: Young Adults and Tikkun Olam Modiin—Rochester: Journey for Identity (JFI) Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehuda—South Africa: Youth Movement Seminar Central Arava—Australia: Limmud Arava Rehovot—Minneapolis: Alternative Spring Break Art and Environment 24 Nesher—Broward: Music2Gether Kiryat Malachi-Hof Ashkelon—Tucson: Light Trail Karmiel-Misgav—Pittsburgh: Waldman International Arts and Writing Competition Leadership Development 26 Tzahar—Palm Beach: Young Leadership Hadera-Eiron—Southeast US Consortium: Leadership2Gether Shoham—Venezuela: Budapest Study Seminar for Young Adults Greater MetroWest—Ofakim-Merchavim: Negba Peoplehood Project Montreal—Beer Sheva-Bnei Shimon: Young Leadership Summit Nahariya—Northern New Jersey: Emergency Response Teams Sovev Kinneret—Milwaukee, Madison & St. Paul: Stories from the Poriya Medical Center Mexico-Northeastern New York—Eshkol: Mechanchei Israel Community Development 32 Sha’ar Hanegev—San Diego: SouthUp Beit Shean-Valley of Springs—Cleveland: “St. Clair” Project Western Galilee—Dallas: Taste of the Galilee Celebrating “The Yoms” 34 Northern Galilee—Great Britain: Magic Moments Kfar Saba—Columbus: Remembering Together Rosh Ha’ayin—New Orleans: Joint Yom HaAtzmaut Celebration Service Year Shlichim (Shin-Shinim) 36 Netanya—Cincinnati: Chaverim M’Israel Afula-Gilboa—Southern New England Consortium: Shin-Shinim Summer Camp 38 Yokneam-Megido—Atlanta-St. Louis: Kefiyada Yoav—Lehigh Valley : Young Counselors Central Galilee—Michigan: Israeli Camper Program Celebrate Israel’s 70th 2Gether! Ways to participate Take a selfie or a group shot with your friends or colleagues holding print-outs of one of these colorful P2G star icons. « Upload your picture to Facebook, and be sure to use the tag #2Gether4_il_70! « Upload your picture into our “big picture” mosaic, by going to www.bit.ly/p2gmosaic. « Get your community involved by using the #2Gether4_il_70 Activity Kit, appropriate for all ages. It includes a card deck with the P2G star icons, cards to write your “7 Words of Wishes” to Israel and your “7 P2G Moments.” Instructions for group facilitation are included. « Print the kit yourself by clicking here « Purchase high-quality kits with festive packaging Join thousands in wishing Israel a happy birthday, through P2G ($10 per kit plus shipping). P2G-style, through the #2Gether4_il_70 Campaign, individually, locally, and globally! For more information contact Dr. Ravit Ochayon at [email protected]. PARTNERSHIP2GETHER 2018 Online Learning Sessions Sharing Across All Partnerships: P2G Learning Sessions P2G’s first online learning session was successfully launched on June 7, 2018 focusing on how to increase engagement in P2G. Participants from some 20 partnerships took part – lay and professionals – Israeli and Diaspora participants. Presentations were made by representatives from Netanya— Cincinnati, Beit Shean – Valley of Springs- Cleveland , and Nahariya—Northern New Jersey. Partnership2Gether/Global School Twinning Network Interconnections Conference PARTNERSHIP2GETHER The two-day conference was held in Newark, New Jersey in March 2017 and 2018 Online Learning Sessions 1 2 3 included 170 participants from 28 Federations, representing 26 partnerships and 17 schools. Participants came from North America, Israel and even Budapest, Hungary. We were energized 2Gether though several experiences: As always with P2G conferences, we walked away feeling JUNE 7 SEPT. 4 DEC. 4 exploring programmatic opportunities and new P2G part of something bigger than ourselves, bigger than Increasing Long-term Young initiatives; launching the #2Gether4_il_70 campaign; our home communities, and bigger than our individual sharing successes and challenges; and hearing Partnership Partnerships. We will continue our conversations from the Communal Engagement Adults GEM TED talks and other speakers. conference in three video conference calls in 2018. Engagement Generate, sustain Attract and engage and grow passion future generations in P2G and commitment to Partnership and to Partnership. develop leaders. Facing the Future of Jewish Peoplehood: A Strategic Collaboration with the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs The Partnerships Unit is convening a series of seminars to raise awareness in Israeli society about the complex issues faced by overseas Jewry. Plug into the P2G network and learn The target audiences for the seminars are Israeli leaders how to drive your Partnership forward. and opinion-shapers who wish to learn more about the current state of Jewish Peoplehood and overseas Jewry. The seminars are a strategic collaboration between the Please mark the next two scheduled sessions on your calendars, for September Partnerships Unit and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to advance our shared mission of ensuring a strong and 4th and December 4th. Following each session, materials and the contact united Jewish people based on shared understanding of information for presenters will be uploaded to our Knowledge Center. each other. For more information contact: For more information contact: Check out the Partnership2Gether Dr. Ravit Ochayon at [email protected]. Dr. Ravit Ochayon at [email protected]. KNOWLEDGE CENTER 6 7 GLOBAL SCHOOL TWINNING NETWORK The Global School Twinning RoboTwin: The Eilat-Eilot—Toronto Network currently includes some STEM Program 300 schools in Israel and 300 Two years ago, the Global School Twinning Network Activities in the pilot in Eilat-Eilot Toronto schools in Jewish communities launched a new opportunity for twinned schools to build have shown that STEM twinning provides worldwide. More than 2,000 overseas friendships through STEM studies. (STEM stands exciting value-add to the schools: teachers and 55,000 students of for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.) The pilot • Strengthening Israel-Diaspora connections through all ages participate. program in eight primary and middle schools in the Eilat- ongoing dialogue Eilot—Toronto partnership has been very successful. • Project-based activities that develop critical thinking These twinned schools chose to focus specifically on the and independent problem solving area of robotics. • Activities that teach skills in working as part of an This initiative stemmed from needs on both international team sides of the ocean: • Promoting peer interaction, networking, and sharing of Extending the Partnership with the best practices between faculty members internationally • To fulfill the goals of Partnership – connecting Jews of all • Increasing the knowledge and tools of the science Ministry of Education & Ministry of ages from Toronto with their peers in Eilat – in a way that teachers and the students feels fresh, relevant and exciting to children. Diaspora Affairs • Acquisition of advanced equipment • Israel continued to produce outstanding scientists, but • Developing two-way benefits for both sides of the We started 2018 with a new strategic partnership with the decline in students who choose to “major” in science Partnership through reciprocal sharing of knowledge Israel’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Diaspora in high school led to fears that Israel would turn from a • Increased cooperation between the Partership Affairs for a major expansion of the Global School Twinning “start-up nation” to a “nation in a slowdown.” Additionally, communities, and expansion of the circle of partners. Network. the periphery deals with a constant shortage of science Beginning in September 2018, the respective Ministries It should be noted that in both Eilat and Toronto the teachers, and existing teachers need more avenues will provide extensive funding to expand the Network’s RoboTwin project is part of a larger effort to upgrade to keep up with changes in the field. STEM Twinning global reach and enhance our educational pedagogy. We science and technology education. For example, the provides opportunities for children in the periphery to extend our deep gratitude to the Government of Israel for Partnership also arranged for 11th and 12th graders to its support. receive the same type of high-tech education as those complete research projects under the guidance of senior in central Israel – paving the way for their professional The new collaboration will enable more day schools and researchers from the Ilan Ramon Center of Ben-Gurion afternoon Hebrew schools in your communities to build a futures -