MI NY ANIM ISRAEL TRIP August 22 nd -29 th , 2011 When? What? Where? Who? Why? How? nd יום ב ', "כ ב אב תשע"א Monday, August 22 15:00 Arrivals Ben-Gurion Airport Vadim & Orli 13:00 Leaving Kiryat Moriah • Why have we chosen the destinations that we have? Packaged lunches from the café in • In what ways is this not a typical tour of 15:30 Welcome Ben-Gurion Airport Eran & Vadim the airport Israel? • What awaits us over the next week together? • Why is young leadership in the Negev Naomi Efrat, Kamah: - significant? 054 5921955 [email protected] • "Shlichut Pnim" – "White Man's Burden"? Leadership in the Desert Café Ringelblum, Naomi Efrat, 17:30 • What relations does this dynamic create Young Communities in Israel Beer-Sheva Elik Almog Elik Almog: between the local people and the young 052 -6219614 leaders? Ringelblum 86, • Center Vs. Periphery 08 -6491001 • Why have they chosen Mitzpeh Ramon as their location for the dance company? • What power does art have beyond pure aesthetics? What can art accomplish? Nir Ben Gal • Should art be a priority in a "Start-Up" 08 -6595190 , 054 -5294246 21:00 Diner & Introduction Nir Ben-Gal & Co' Hangar-Adamah nation that is not yet fully formed? [email protected] Mitzpeh-Ramon • What does a portrait of the dance students Har Boker 4, Mitzpeh Ramon look like? Who are they? Why do they choose to come? What are they looking for? 22:00 MAKŌM learning I Vadim Blumin Expectations & Group contract 111 rd יום ג ', ג"כ אב תשע"א Tuesday, August 23 07:00 Breakfast on the Cliffside Journaling קמח vs תורה / Body vs. Soul /Earth vs. Spirit • • What does Judaism have to say about physical 08:00 Workshop Hangar-Adamah Nir Ben-Gal & Co' expressions like dance? • Group dynamics Young Leadership: (Ashalim (kfar Adiel ראש ,Keywords: change, building, initiative, action : Inbar Elberg גדול Student Village tour 10:00 Ayalim Ashalim • What is motivating these young people to act? 054 -6929942 • Do you think you would ever join a group like [email protected] this? What are the social dynamics in a place like Yerucham? 11:30 Travel to Yerucham • There is a sense of anger among the locals, they feel they were lied to by the government when they came to Israel. • Intergenerational tension: With limited opportunities within Yerucham, should 12:00 Introduction to Yerucham Beer Hagar Atid ba-Midbar the young generation leave to build a better life elsewhere, or stay and improve the status quo? Towards breaking the narrative of Victimhood: • In what way does this project respond to local tensions? • If food can be seen as an object of Jewish 13:00 Lunch @ Mevashlot The Ethnic Cooks sublimation, what are the problems behind this food? What complex story is cooked into this food? • How can the food help tell a healthier story? Leadership Seminar • Why was the Torah given in the desert? • Yishmael and Isaac: what happens when two 14:15 Study at the Yerucham Lake Atid ba-Midbar competing "brothers" find themselves together in the desert? • Which narrative do you assume: one of power (Goliath?) or one of the underdog (David)? • What does today's Negev look like? • What are the tensions between the Jewish 17:30 Bedouins @ the Negev Avnun Mountain Salima social justice values and the Israeli reality on the ground? 222 • What is the Bedouin narrative? This encounter is an opportunity to give voice to a "double minority": a Bedouin woman. Tze'irim B'Yeruham Keren: New nuances within old tensions : 054 -6699393 18:45 The City of Yerucham – Past, Present and Implications for the Future • Mizrachi attitudes toward mainstream Israeli society and culture David Biton: 052 -6583216 [email protected] 21:00 Dinner @ Sdeh -Boker Midreshet Ben-Gurion 22:00 MAKŌM learning II Journaling th יום ד ', "כ ד אב תשע"א Wednesday, August 24 07:00 Breakfest @ Sdeh -Boker Yerucham Processing the trip to the 08:00 MAKŌM learning III Journaling Negev + time to read and write in journals 10:00 Depart for Jerusalem Time to settle in and refresh עדיף באגרון. Check-in hotel & dinner 12:00 14:30 Nathan Sheransky JAFI headquarters JAFI & MiNYanim הצגת הפרויקטים לבכירי הסהוה" י לועדה שערן ירכיב Projects Presentation 15:30 Committees 17:00 Depart for the Western Wall Old City, Jerusalem • "By the Waters of Babylon…"Which Zion/Jerusalem do we seek to create today? • What sorts of tensions and intersections arise Rachel Azaria: between spiritual / national / and religious 054 -7665680 symbols like the Kotel in contemporary Israel? [email protected] 18:00 Rachel Azaria The Western Wall Vadim & Elisheva • The failure of multiculturalism? To what extent are/should the rights and preferences of a Hagar (Rache's assistant): minority group be imposed on other groups? 02-6297682, 02-6296440 • Jerusalem in 2011: what are the personal struggles of a woman in a position of leadership? 20:00 Dinner & Introduction Beit Ana-Ticho , Tav HaChevrati, B'Maaglei 333 Jerusalem Tzedek, Yael: 052 -6070225 [email protected] יום ה ', "כ ה אב תשע"א Thursday, August 25th 07:00 Breakfast at the Hotel Journaling Secular Yeshiva: • Why should the study of Jewish text in a traditional yeshiva setting be of significance to For further information, look Ein Qarem, young non-observant Jews? 08:00 Secular Yeshiva into PresenTense: Jerusalem • If this study requires no commitment to http://presentense.org / observance, what merit is there to study in a Yeshiva setting, as opposed to an academic one? 12:00 Lunch • What are some of the different ways in which 13:00 The Israel Museum individuals express their complex relationship with the place (Israel) through visual art? • Works of art often express a vision for an ideal state of being: the artist's dream of what could be. What are some of the visions you found in the museum? • Do any of the visions you saw contradict one Jerusalem Vadim & Elisheva another? 15:00 MAKŌM learning IV • Which expression of this speaks most to you? • Rethinking museum theory: what is the role of a museum? How do each of the sections within the museum interact with one another? How did you experience the interactions between each section and the others? What is the interaction between universal (general culture) and particular (Israeli, Jewish) in the museum? • What is the story of the LGBT movement in Yaron Gal Jerusalem? How did it develop? Jerusalem Open House: • What is the relationship between the Jerusalem 054 -4898717 "Jerusalem is Proud and Tel Aviv Gay movements? What is the 17:00 JOH|Bat-Kol|Hevruta|Shoval JOH to Present" character of each? Daniel, Hevruta: דניאל , חברותא Private vs. public 054 -6305101 • • Conflicted/Multiple identities (Gay & observant Jew; Jewish & Hungarian): What is the price you Tzachi, Shoval: 444 pay for giving up one of your identities? 052 -8556793 [email protected] Music that incorporates texts Anthropological study on the ground: http://artfair.jerusale from Psalms with Ethiopian 18:30 Depart for the festival http://youtu.be/IX4cLwHgL_c • What does recreation in Israel look like? m.muni.il/ Jazz Fusion and Afro-Groove, • What does street culture in Israel look like? up-beat and happy th יום ו ', ו"כ אב תשע"א Friday, August 26 08:00 Breakfast at the Hotel Jerusalem Journaling 09:00 MAKŌM learning V • 10:30 Depart for Tel-Aviv • Rothschild Boulevard, 12:00 MAKŌM learning VI • Exploring Tel-Aviv Tel - Aviv 13:30 Lunch & divide by tasks • Habima Square, 15:30 Processing • Tel-Aviv Weekly Torah Portion: Re'eh Sabbath Begins : 16:30 Depart for hotel • Preparations for Shabbat Jerusalem: 18:35 Tel Aviv: 18:51 17:30 Depart for Kabalat Shabbat Northern Port, TLV • • Jew-Bu: Kabbalat Shabbat- How can one personalize tradition to make it meaningful? • What is authentic Judaism? Does this prayer feel authentic to you? On the other hand, does it feel accessible/relatable? What would you do differently? • What power (and who is allowed) does one have to change text, create or alter traditions, etc. Tel Aviv Port 18:30 Shabbat at the Port There is a current trend towards Jewish renewal http :// www .btfila .org / in Tel Aviv; a renaissance of Jewish culture, and a growing interest in Jewish text and rituals among non-observant Israelis. What is behind this trend? What does it reveal to us about Israeli society? Why is it happening? http://www.btfila.org/event_day.asp?site_lan=he &event_id=464 20:30 Shabbat Dinner At the Hotel Eran El-Bar 555 22:00 Free evening in TLV th יום שבת ז"כ, אב תשע" א Shabbat, August 27 09:30 Breakfast at the Hotel Mapping the Israeli mass-media and press Mass media & Journalism in 10:30 www.haaretz.co.il Lily Galili • In what ways, if at all, is Israeli journalism contemporary Israel different from that of other societies? 12:00 MAKŌM learning VII Eran El-Bar Weekly Torah portion 13:30 Lunch at the hotel 14:30 Free time in Tel-Aviv …Towards the Month of Elul הבדלה MAKŌM learning VIII 20:00 th יום א ', "כ ח אב תשע"א Sunday, August 28 07:00 Breakfast at the Hotel 09:00 Depart for Afula The Role of Civil Society: • Whose responsibility is it to provide basic social services? The government or independent organizations? Hadas Goldman, 11:00 The "Cultural Movement" Afula • What is the evolution of social change? Cultural Movement • What are the sources of energy and 050 -2029904 inspiration for social movements? • When it comes to qualitative results, how do you define success? 12:30 Depart for Eshchar 13:00 Lunch Eshachar Eran El-Bar 14:30 Depart for Kibbutz Eshbal Local learning : Contact: 15:00 Site as text – understanding Eshbal [email protected] the story behind the Kibbutz 17:00 Depart for Tel-Aviv 19:30 Preparations at Hotel Old Tel-Aviv 20:30 Farewell dinner Train Station 666.