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Friends of Yemin Orde Transforming Immigrant and At-Risk Youth Into Productive Members of Israeli Society Friends of Yemin Orde Transforming immigrant and at-risk youth into productive members of Israeli society. 2018 Annual Report Elevating Lifting Education Lives The Village Way 1 PROFESSIONAL STAFF Yemin Orde Youth Village Village Way Educational Friends of Yemin Orde Gerry Hoch, Manager, Initiatives Karen Sallerson, Shmuli Bing, Director* Database & Administration Dr. Chaim Peri, Founder-President Executive Director* Susan Weijel, Deputy Director* Ellen Balfour, Consultant, Robert Gurmankin, Director, Amit Treister, Director of Informal Haim Rubovitch, Chief Executive Graphics & Design Major Gifts Education Officer* Daniel Ripps, Consultant, Lianne Goldsmith, Western Dotan Levi, Director, Derech Kfar Strategic Planning Ronit Weizman, Finance Director Region, Development Director Educational Institute Barbara Sherbill, Director, Susan Weijel, Deputy Director* Marketing & Communications Ronit Weizman, Finance Director Leslie Kline, Director, Finance *Executive Committee 2 2018-2019 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Judy Kaye “What you’re doing is the great act of reshaping human lives.” George Blank* Beth Landman* National Campaign David Lonner Dear Friends, Last year, we honored Israeli visionary and educator, Chair Dale Okonow* Chaim Peri, with the Friends of Yemin Orde Tikkun Israel President Reuven Rivlin in a taped message Robert Arogeti* Rabbi Michael Paley Ha’Lev Award at our first gala in New York City. We delivered this remark to 750 educators at the Village plan to host this elegant evening program as an annual Immediate Past Harvey Potter Way Educational Initiatives (VWEI) conference on April opportunity for fundraising and community-building. Chair Steven I. Rosenfeld MD 4, 2019, at Tel Aviv University. President Rivlin’s comment Charles Gwirtsman* Please mark your calendar for Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, Seth Rosenzweig aptly validates our vital mission to empower Israel’s at-risk when we will honor Seth Merrin and the late Chair Emeritus youth to move from a mindset of survival to leadership. Michael Salzhauer* Anne Heyman at The Pierre hotel in New York City. Michael Frieze* Eric Schwartz* Our 2018 Annual Report reflects our remarkable success One year ago, as part of our strategic planning process, Board Members David Schwarz in addressing Israel’s complex educational environment Friends of Yemin Orde embarked on a rebranding David Amar while, simultaneously, lifting the lives of fragile Barry Shrage project to result, among other things, in a new name, a Allen Applbaum youth in 49 diverse communities across Israel. These Lewis Shubin new tagline and a new logo. Soon, Friends of Yemin Orde communities include Ethiopian, Bedouin, Arab, Michael Azeez* will formally be called ImpactIsrael. Our new tagline will Robert Shubin Druze, French, Brazilian, Russian, religious and Mimi Bengio be: Elevating education and lifting lives the Village Way. Board Observers secular populations. Harriet Blank Watch for emails and announcements as we roll out our Michael Rosenfeld Mark Claster* Since 2006, VWEI has touched the lives of 18,500 youth new look. Daryl Shore and 2,300 educators in Israel. Our goal, by 2021, is to Michelle Bond This new name and identity is only relevant to our U.S. Copelin Lifetime Trustees impact 25,500 at-risk youth and 2,800 educators in Israel. fundraising organization; the names of Yemin Orde Jonathan Cordish Dr. Chaim Peri Youth Village and Village Way Educational Initiatives will The Village Way is building education careers in a Alan Cornell Paul Silberberg remain intact. Mark I. Solomon myriad of environments. We are now providing Village Don Crawford Jr. Way training to commanders and education officers We hope our progress in 2018 will inspire you to Honorary Trustees within the Special Populations department of the Israel Marty Davis strengthen your commitment to Israel’s at-risk youth. David Cordish Defense Forces (IDF). These IDF officers now call David Frieze The personal gratification that will result from your victor gelb z”l themselves “educators” and work to instill a sense of Victor Hammel* involvement in our unique national movement will be belonging among all soldiers in their unit. *Executive Committee among the most profound of your lifetime. Join us on this Jeffrey Hirschfeld As our work expands across Israel, Yemin Orde Youth sacred mission. Village remains a model of educational excellence. In Respectfully, 2018, Yemin Orde’s high school placed among the top 4.3 percent of all 1,664 high schools in Israel. The ranking, published by Israel’s Ministry of Education, evaluated high schools according to the academic, social and ethical achievements of their students. This is an outstanding accomplishment for the Village, its George W. Blank educators and our youth and we could not be prouder! Board Chair Friends of Yemin Orde L-R: Robert Arogeti, George Blank, Charlie Gwirtsman 3 YEMIN ORDE YOUTH VILLAGE - KEY PROGRAMS emin Orde Youth Village provides a loving facilitate discussions and activities and help cook. Yhome, school and safe haven to 430 at-risk and Hikers return to the Village jubilant from their immigrant youth from Ethiopia, the former Soviet accomplishment. They are an inspiration to their Union, France, Brazil and native Israelis. Its youth younger peers. are first or second generation Israelis between 14 and 19 years of age. Most of Yemin Orde’s youth Empowering Adolescent Girls have endured destructive childhoods framed by This program is designed to help all of Yemin poverty, family dysfunction, loss or violence. Orde’s teenage girls navigate the tensions and dilemmas faced during adolescence. Activities Through a highly successful and holistic educational include workshops in self-defense, nutrition and methodology, called the Village Way, plus a skilled health, meetings with women leaders in Israeli team of dedicated educators and professionals, society, and discussions about healthy relation- Yemin Orde’s youth receive the tools to learn, grow and ships, bullying, self-image and developing social succeed as productive and upright citizens of Israel. self-awareness. This program creates a unifying Jewish Identity bond among all of the Village’s girls as they share their experiences. Jewish identity is woven into the fabric of daily life at Yemin Orde. The Jewish value of social respon- Creative Arts sibility – Tikkun Olam – is an integral part of Yemin The creative arts programs provides therapeutic Orde’s social and moral fabric. Youth volunteer at healing through art, music and dance. Drawing, community centers and hospitals, and organize painting and ceramics classes focus on the food drives for underserved families. By helping process rather than the end product, encouraging others, at-risk youth heal their hearts and souls. confidence and artistic freedom. The music program Integrated Tools encompasses voice or instrument lessons, music theory, a youth choir and band, as well as a Master The Integrated Tools (IT) program is a collaboration Class where youth meet well-known musicians. The between the Israel Defense Forces elite intelligence dance program provides classes in movement and corps and Israeli high tech partners. It offers creative freestyle. motivated youth in grades 10-12 the opportunity 2018-2019 VILLAGE POPULATION to learn and excel in cyber-security and high-level Eco-Farm computer technology, skills prized by the IDF and Yemin Orde’s Eco-Farm is a model of sustainability. 33% ETHIOPIA the Israeli private sector. Youth care for the farm’s animals, oversee its organic 100 Kilometer Challenge Hike vegetable gardens, learn carpentry and blacksmith 24% FORMER SOVIET UNION skills and gain confidence and organizational skills in The annual Challenge (Etgar) Hike for high school 17% FRANCE a supportive and nurturing setting. The Eco-Farm’s seniors is one of the most popular activities at “Green Basket” program operates under the 16% NATIVE ISRAELI Yemin Orde. On the hike, youth build friendships, collaborative Community Supported Agriculture strengthen self-confidence, put team-building and model (CSA) and provides fresh and healthy produce 8% BRAZIL leadership skills to the test, and use new outdoor to customers in the local area. Youth learn about busi- survival skills. Staff members accompany youth to ness entrepreneurship in an interactive and fun way. 4 The Village Loves Visitors! • Personal tour of the Village • Stay for lunch • Meet youth and staff Yemin Orde Youth Village, on Mt. Carmel, will leave a special place in your heart! 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 6 7 8 11 12 1. Temple Israel, West Bloomfield, MI 2. Deanna and Sidney Wolk, Boston, MA 3. Isaac Frank Leadership Group, Atlanta, GA 4. Tracy and Paul Berger Am Shalom, Glencoe, IL 5. Boston JCRC, Christian Clergy 6. Temple Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, OH 7. Keith Greenwald, Atlanta, GA, Chaim Peri 8. Barbara and Donald Tallering, Port St. Lucie, FL, Susan Weijel (center) 9. Batya Shmueli, Chaim Peri, Etta Somekh, Los Altos, CA 10. L-R: Rabbi Alon Levkovitz, Gal Levkovitz, Haim Rubovitch, Bruce Cohen, Temple Beth Am, Jupiter, FL 11. David Amar (center), 13 14 Los Angeles, CA 12. Sarit Giora-Doodai, Tracy Rosen, Boston, MA, Dotan Levi, Dale Atkins, NYC, Susan Weijel 13. Jewish Federation of Reading, PA 14. Lieber Family, Miami, FL 5 OUR GRADUATES Tamir Temesgen Zalaw “I learned so much at Yemin Orde. I learned how to dream and how to follow my dreams,” he said. “My teachers also taught me the meaning of life and how Tamir Temesgen Zalaw grew to be an independent youth.” up in a small village near Gondar, Ethiopia and made Tamir enjoyed the Village’s robotics program, a Aliyah to Israel when he was popular extra-curricular activity geared toward 15 years old. His family lived encouraging interest in computer science and in a refugee compound in mechanical and electric engineering. In 2009, Gondar for eight years before Tamir’s robotics team won first place in an they received government Israel-wide robotics competition, which permission to fly to Israel. qualified them to compete in the international competition’s final round in Atlanta, GA.
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