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Stockholm, July 30 - August 8

participants

CATALOGUE

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About Paideia

About the PI

International participation

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Participant profiles

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Staff profiles

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Schedule

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Thank You

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Table of Contents

Greetings

Greetings

Welcome!
Dear participant in this, the 8th annual Paideia Project-Incubator.
We are thrilled to have you with us for ten intensive summer days in Stockholm. You are
the change makers who are redrawing the map of Jewish Europe, not only in your own
settings but also by creating a landscape that is on its way to becoming an integrated,
pan-European Jewish community.
It is our great hope that you will find program rewarding to you personally and that it
will not only move your project to the next phase, but also that you will come out of
here with new inspiration, new friends and new knowledge.
As much as we hope that you will learn from our experienced staff, we hope that you
will be learning from each other. We have no doubt that we will be learning a great
deal from you.
You will be joining a community of over 400 activists who have gone through Paideias
Barbara Lerner Spectre,
Founding Director of Paideia

Erik Gribbe
Director, Paideia Project-Incubator

program. We are certain that in the future, you will be able to draw from that resource,
as well as contribute to it. Together, you form a movement of social change that is
taking place all over the continent.
We are happy indeed that you have chosen to come Paideia this August, and proud to
be able to welcome you to our community.
Again: Welcome!

Its mission is to actively promote the renewal and


flourishing of European Jewish cultural and intellectual
life, to support cross-cultural dialogue and to promote
a positive paradigm of minority culture within
European societies.
Paideia works towards these goals through running
intensive, high-calibre programs for the academic study of
text and for social entrepreneurship: the Paideia One-Year
Jewish Studies Program, the Project-Incubator, and the
Paradigm Program among others.
The programs typically accept participants from 1416 different countries, making it a truly pan-European
institute. Together, these programs have graduated over
400 highly active individuals in 40 countries, who are part
of creating a new paradigm of European Jewish culture.
Paideia graduates are active in every field of Jewish life:
from academia to community life and interreligious work,
from the arts to journalism and cultural festivals, adding
substance, innovation and enthusiasm to Jewish life and
culture throughout Europe.

The Paideia Project-Incubator is a program designed


for activists for European Jewish culture. It gathers
innovative minds from all over the continent,
empowering them in their process of creative
development, with a focus on concretizing ideas,
building skills and exchanging thoughts.
The program was initiated in 2006, as an answer to
requests from the graduates of Paideias One-Year Jewish
Studies Program, who wanted a program where they
could convert the extensive knowledge they had acquired
at Paideia into action. It has since become a reference
program for European Jewish innovation, tutoring more
projects than any other organization.
The program consists of workshops, networking sessions,
skills seminars, Jewish content and inspiration, individual
tutoring, peer review and interaction with foundational
professionals. Participants represent a range of projects,
from those connected to established institutions and
communities, to new grassroots initiatives. Since the
inception, the program has tutored over 140 projects
across Europe, and has graduates running projects in over
20 different countries.

About the Paideia PI

About Paideia

Paideia was created in 2000 through foundational


grants from the Swedish Government and the Marcus
and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation, as a nondenominational and pluralistic institute focusing
on academic excellence and on social innovation.

The 2013 Paideia Project-Incubator is generously funded


by the European Jewish Fund (as part of the EJF Leadership
Program at Paideia) and Natan.
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International participation
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Alisa Zilbershtein // Russia


Aya Noah // Israel

USA

Sweden

Israel

Azerbaijan

Germany

Moldova

Austria

Russia

Hungary

Fargana Sarmas Azad // Azerbaijan


Liliya Vendrova // Ukraine
Symi Rom-Rymer // USA
Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina // Ukraine
Bence Tordai // Hungary
Iegor Muratov // Ukraine
Jared Gimbel // Germany
Jon Goldberg // Austria
Jonna Rock // Sweden
Marik Shtern // Israel
Judit Mandl // Hungary
Mirey Cukurel // Turkey
Rka Eszter Bod // Hungary
Roman Odesschii // Moldova

Ukraine

Turkey

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Alisa zilbershtein

Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina

Country Russia
Occupation MA student at the Hochschule fr Jdische Studien Heidelberg

Country Kiev
Occupation Lecturer at NPU and head of the Judaic Research Center, YASR

Alisa is a student in the joint MA program


Jewish Civilizations at the Hochschule
fr Jdische Studien, Heidelberg, after
graduating from the Paideia One-Year
Jewish Studies Program in 2012 as an
Isaiah Berlin Fellow. She is currently
researching different aspects of Soviet
history concerning Jews - more precisely
the history and structure of communist
party government and Jewish
participation in it; Stalins national
politics; anti-Semitism in the USSR and
post USSR. She is currently working in
various volunteer educational projects
on the subjects of tolerance and antifascism in Russia, in cooperation with the
Russia for all foundation and others.

Name of project
Paideia FSU
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education
Project status
Idea Stage
About the project
Paideia FSU is a one-month educational seminar for Jewish
and non-Jewish youngsters from the age of 21 from Russianspeaking countries based on the experience of Paideia the
European Institute for Jewish studies in Stockholm.
Paideia is a pan-European institute that praises the values
of free education, knowledge sharing and cross-cultural
experience, which has run successfully for more than 10
years, and unites close to 300 graduates and dozens of
teachers from all over the world. Students from the Former
Soviet Union participate actively in the program and
constitute a big portion of the Paideia alumni.
Although the Russian Jewish community plays a significant
role in European Jewish revival, the language barrier
prevents many more Russian-speaking Jewish activists from
integration into the studying process in European countries.
The Paideia Alumni Association feels a great need for an
educational program that will allow Russian-speaking Jews
and non-Jews to receive the knowledge heritage of Paideia
and will provide a platform for the realization of diverse
projects developed by Paideia Alumni of the past 10 years.

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Anna Mariya was born in Kiev, Ukraine.


She graduated from the Kiev National
Linguistic University as an Italian and
English interpreter. During her student time,
she was very active in Hillel, giving classes
on Judaism and then as the educational
coordinator for Hillel programs in Kiev.
She then got her second degree from the
Religious studies department at the Taras
Shevchenko National University of Kiev.
She is currently writing her PhD thesis
on the historic transformation of Jewish
theological education at the National
Pedagogical Dragomanov University
(NPU). Since 2006, she is a member of the
Youth Association for the Study of Religions
(YASR), where she has organized and
conducted three Judaic International Youth
Schools (2007, 2010 and 2011). She is now
the head of the Judaic Research Center at
YASR and lecturer at NPU. She is married
with two children.

Name of project
The Judaic Teachers Training Seminar
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Intercultural work, Self-development
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
The Judaic Teachers Training Seminar is a unique
collaborative effort between the Youth Association for the
Study of Religions together with the National Pedagogical
University, providing impartial knowledge about Judaism
to future Ukrainian teachers. The goal of the project is to
cultivate an environment of tolerance and understanding
within Ukrainian society. The Judaic Teachers Training
Seminar is the only teachers training program that provides
knowledge about Judaism together with Jewishly rooted
teaching methods (Hevruta) to future teachers.
Our trainers have PhD degrees in Jewish Studies and in
education, and are experienced in combining both academic
learning and curriculum development skills. Over the course
of the 10-day program, 30 high-school teacher trainees of
the humanities will attend academic lectures on Judaism,
learn and experiment with new teaching methods, visit
Jewish communities and meet with Jewish leaders. When
they take over their own classrooms, these teachers can
diminish negative stereotypes about Jews, while transmitting
their new positive and confident understanding of Judaism
and Jews to approximately 4,500 students annually. We are
convinced that by educating new generations of Ukrainians
to understand Jews, the destructive problem of antiSemitism can be overcome.

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Aya Noah

Bence Tordai

Country Germany
Occupation CEO of Hamakom

Country Hungary
Occupation Educational program coordinator, Haver Foundation
Website www.haver.hu

Aya was born in Israel and has been


living in Berlin since November 2010,
where she has worked on widening her
knowledge of politics and the practice
of sustainability. She holds a B.A in
Geography and Middle Eastern Studies, an
M.A. in Educational Management, Group
Facilitating qualifications and was also a
graduate attendant in the Environmental
Leadership program at the Heschel
Center. In February 2013, she participated
in the Shifting Thought Shifting Action
conference in Berlin, where she met Yal
Schlesinger and Raphalle Oskar a.k.a.
Ena Schulz. As a result of the conference
the three of them established Hamakom
in March 2013. Hamakom is a place in
Berlin for exploration and discussion of
various and conflicting facets of Jewish
history, faith, culture and people. The
event of Hamakom was an alternative
Tikun Leil Schavuot.

Name of project
Hamakom
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, Community work
Project status
Pilot stage
About the project
HAMAKOM is a place for the revival of Jewish culture in Berlin.
Up until WWII, Berlin was one of the leading and most
exciting Jewish centers in Europe, where Judaism was not
only a religion but also an important cultural expression.
Sadly, Berlin of 2013 offers mostly the religious aspects of
Judaism and little of the cultural.
Therefore, a committed multi-disciplinary team from
Germany, Israel and ex-Yugoslavia established HAMAKOM in
order to explore and reinvigorate the multifaceted richness
of Jewish culture. HAMAKOM is a platform to coordinate
and foster the growth of Jewish culture in Berlin, to shift the
boundaries of what Judaism can mean and to become the
meeting point for Jews and non-Jews in Berlin.
Through monthly multi-lingual activities such as food
festivals, joint readings of traditional and contemporary texts,
music festivals etc., HAMAKOM will enable Jewish culture to
become accessible to the Berlin audience.

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Bence has been involved in informal


Jewish education since 2003, attending
the Szarvas International Jewish Youth
Camp first as a chanich and later, until
2009, as a madrich. In 2008, Bence started
to volunteer as an informal educator at
the Haver Foundation, an organization
which brings the topic of Judaism to nonJewish schools to start cultural dialogue
and to confront anti-Semitism. After
gaining experience at the Foundation
and finishing his MA degree in philology
at ELTE University, in 2012 he started to
work full-time at Haver Foundation as
an educational program coordinator. His
primary tasks include educational material
development, coordination and working
with the Foundations volunteer team.

Name of project
Haver Talks
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Intercultural work
Project status
Pilot stage
About the project
Haver talks is a new multimedia project providing and
sharing information and knowledge through personal stories
about Judaism and Jewish identity for non-Jewish youth. The
projects primary goal is to combat prejudice, discrimination
and antisemitism and to promote the value of cultural
pluralism and social cohesion in Hungary.
The project is carried out by the Haver Foundation, an
organization which has been active in the field of Jewish
education since 2002, using informal educational methods to
teach about Judaism for non-Jews. Since its start, Haver has
reached over 40,000 students and with the involvement of
over 40 volunteer educators has run activities in more than
100 schools and educational institutions all over the country.
With the project Haver Talks, the Foundation intends to
initiate new learning approaches acting upon the renewed
needs of its target audience, using video interviews and
exploring the potential of multimedia platforms and tools.
As part of Haver Talks, new educational materials and
programs are developed aiming to become part of Haver
Foundations curriculum.

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Fargana Sarmas Azad

Iegor Muratov

Country Azerbaijan
Occupation MA student in Jewish Civilization at the HfJS Heidelberg

Country Ukraine
Occupation Deputy Director of Insurance, Consoris Insurance Brokers

Fargana graduated from Baku State


University, majoring in Hebrew studies
and Jewish Literature. During her
academic years, she was involved in
several projects focusing on Azerbaijani
Jews and she was an active member of
different Jewish communities like Hillel,
the Israel Cultural Center and the Jewish
Agency. After graduating with honors
in 2010, she started to work as a Hebrew
teacher as well as primary class teacher
for 5th graders in the Jewish religious
school Vaad LHastala, while actively
participating in the educational seminars
of the Hephstibah program in Kiev
and Odessa. In 2012-2013, she studied
at Paideia - the European Institute for
Jewish Studies in Sweden. She is currently
completing her masters degree at the
Hochschule fr Jdische Studien in
Heidelberg, Germany.

Name of project
Shalom Lekulam
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Intercultural work
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
Shalom lekulam focuses on intercultural and interreligious
work and encounters for young Jews and Azeris.
In Azerbaijan today, the main problems preventing
real understanding between the Jewish and Azeri
communities are widespread misinformation and a lack
of communication. The goal of this project is to showcase
both worlds to both sides, to eliminate religious and
political barriers and to understand and highlight the
religious and cultural ties between the Jewish and Muslim
populations in Azerbaijani society.
This intensive workshop will be the first interfaith project
in Azerbaijan. In partnership with the Hillel Jewish Youth
organization and the Oriental Faculty of Baku State
University, the activity will be held in Baku and Kuba, the
two major cities of Azerbaijan. Over the course of one
week, students will learn about each others religions,
traditions and cultures with Islamic and Jewish scholars,
read texts from the Bible and Quran with a Rabbi and an
Imam, visit synagogues and mosques, celebrate Holy Cuma
and Kabalat Shabbat and travel to Krasnaya Slobada (the
Jewish town of Kuba, known as Little Jerusalem).

In 2001, Iegor graduated from the


International Solomon University in Kiev
and received a MA in Computer Sciences.
Since 2006, he has built his career as a
manager in insurance, advancing to
corporate accounts head in the corporate
sales department. Currently, Iegor
works as a partner at a major insurance
broker. These years has given him great
experience in business management and
project performance. At the same time,
he has taken an active part in the life of
the Jewish community. He has spent two
years at the Kibbutz Ein Gedi in Israel in
the Naale program. During the past 5
years, Iegor has been taking an active part
in the informal education of Jewish youth
in the Jewish Agency for Israel. In 2010 and
2011 he worked as a Madrich is summer
camps for Jewish youth.

Name of project
Intellectual caf Dialogue
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, Community work,
Intercultural work
Project status
In process of realization
About the project
Although there is a diversity of educational and social activities
for children and youth, as well as for the elderly, there is a big
lack of joint intellectual leisure events on a regular basis for
Jews and non-Jews aged 25 + in Ukraine. This helps maintain
ignorance and stereotypes about Jews and prevents crosscultural dialog.
In 2013 we have established a series of dialogue cafes which
offer young adults bi-weekly activities based on Beit Midrash
style discussions on Jewish and non-Jewish traditional and
modern texts. Talmudic hyper-dialogue is one of our main
methodologies that we combine with the best intellectual
practices of Jewish and European heritage.
We are thus facilitating communication between people by
providing the necessary conditions and atmosphere for crosscultural discussions, in which participants can state their vision,
perceive the point of view of the Other and develop elaborate
personal attitudes on the topic. In the future, we plan to
establish a network of intellectual cafes in different cities of
Ukraine, which will be financially self-sustained, and create a
community that shares the same values.
Our initiating group has experience in both business
development and Jewish informal education, and we all have
academic background. There is a great synergy in the group
that gives us opportunity to create a viable long-term project.

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Jared Gimbel

Jonna Rock

Country Germany
Occupation Masters Degree Candidate at Hochschule fr Jdische Studien Heidelberg

Country Sweden
Occupation Student

Jared is a Masters Degree Candidate


at the Hochschule fr Jdische Studien
Heidelberg, specializing in Contemporary
Jewish Diaspora and the treatment of
European Jewry in the Israeli media.
Gimbel was born in Boston and had his
Bar Mitzvah in Woodbridge, Connecticut,
where he served as a cantor and Torah
reader. After graduating from Wesleyan
University with High Honors, he moved
to Cracow, where he became a translator,
editor and tour guide at the Galicia Jewish
Museum, and volunteered at the Jewish
Community Center of Cracow. While at
the Paideia Institutes One-Year Program,
he also served as a cantor at various
synagogues in Stockholm. He has joined
Jewish choirs in Poland and in Germany,
including the first Jewish Choir in Cracow.
Gimbel is writing his Masters Thesis on
how Jews in Finland and in Greece react
to perceptions of their communities by
outsiders and in the Israeli press.

Name of project
Present Presence
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, Community work,
Intercultural work
Project status
In process of realization
About the project
New Jewish Worlds are Flourishing,
Old Jewish Worlds are Flourishing Again
Jews throughout the world are exposed to a one-sided
perspective about todays European Jewish reality, as one
solely threatened by anti-Semitism and constant insecurity.
This acts as a barrier between the non-European Jewish
communities and their relationship with their counterparts
in Europe, and complicates the relationship between their
home nations and European Jews.
Present Presence aims to provide a uniquely balanced and
multi-dimensional understanding of todays European Jewish
reality, in order to foster a positive Jewish identity that is at
peace with the world and, therefore, is at peace with itself.
The three phases of the project are:
1. A series of lectures, each focusing on one Jewish
community of the contemporary European Diaspora.
These are to be delivered in high schools and colleges,
to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.
2. The use of online media, devoted to telling the story
of various Jewish Diaspora communities through
photographs.
3. On the horizon, a material photography museum
showing the contemporary world in various countries
through Jewish Eyes.

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Jonna is from Sweden. Her ancestors on


her mothers side immigrated to Sweden
from the Baltics. She holds an LL.M. in
International Economic Law from the
Martin-Luther-University in Germany
and the Southwest University of Political
Science and Law in China. Jonna has also
completed a Masters degree in Slavonic
studies from Uppsala University. Her M.A
thesis investigates the identity conceptions
amongst five Russian-Jewish immigrants
in Germany. One chapter of her thesis is
titled The connection between Jews and
Israel: national, ethnical, religious and
cultural identity. This chapter is going to
be published as an article by the Official
Council of Swedish Jewish Communities
in 2013. At the Institute for Cultural
Diplomacy in Berlin, Jonna coordinated
a conference called Understanding
Multiculturalism: Exploring the Promotion
and Protection of Cultural Diversity.

Name of project
IRise of Balkan Sephardim
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Cultural production, Community work, Intercultural
work, Spirituality
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
Rise of Balkan Sephardim is a project that aims to discover
identity conceptions amongst Sephardic adolescents and
their grandparents in Sarajevo. Through interviews with the
last survivors of a generation and their grandchildren, the
documentary film aims to preserve and protect a EuropeanSephardic cultural heritage.
Little to no research has been conducted on the formation
of identity of this particular group: when Yugoslavia
disintegrated in the 1990s, the Sephardim who had been
classified as Yugoslavs in Yugoslavia had to seek a new
identity among the identities at hand.
Rise of Balkan Sephardim illustrates the double-identity
during the Yugoslavian regime, meaning that one person
could claim to be a Yugoslav but also a Jew at the same time.
It clarifies the status of the Jews in Yugoslavia in comparison
to how they are classified today in Sarajevo.
With an M.A thesis in Slavonic studies from Uppsala
University exploring Jewish identity among Russian-Jewish
immigrants in Berlin, I have ample academic and practical
experience on issues of identity and cultural heritage that I
will be bringing to this project.

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Jon Goldberg

Judit Mandl

Country Austria
Occupation Consultant, Goldberg Corporate Finance

Country Hungary
Occupation In-house counsel at UniCredit Bank Austria

Jon Goldberg is an independent


consultant in the areas of Finance, IT, and
International Trade. For the past 20 years,
he has worked in the U.S., Europe, Africa
and Asia. His areas of expertise are Data
Analysis and Management, Procurement,
Automotive and Manufacturing,
Nutrition, and Renewable Energy.
Jons commitment to International
Jewish education began only recently
with his participation and organization
of Limmud China during the past 2
years. However, he believes Limmud
and other non-traditional community
based programs are the future to a strong
Global Jewish community. Outside of his
professional life, Jon has been involved
in the Theater communities in all the
locales where he has lived, as an actor,
technician, and director. He currently
lives in Vienna with his Austrian wife, a
renowned Jazz Singer.

Name of project
Limmud Danube
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, The arts, Intercultural work
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
The next generation of Central European Jews is here. It is
invigorated, excited, and curious.
Once shattered communities of various size, continue to be
mended. They share common threads of history and culture
which can be capitalized on by coming together for a joint
event and building a unique, empowering and connecting
experience for each individual community.
Limmud Danube is a residential 3-day event of Jewish
learning and culture. From pickle making to Talmud studies,
Limmud Danube is a multi-cultural, multi-denominational,
cross-generational communal project with a potential to
incubate local Limmud events in the region.
The international team are experienced young professionals
from varied backgrounds passionate about volunteerism and
participation. As Limmud International volunteers, they have
previously facilitated local and regional events, and bring in
outside experience to the Jewish non-profit world.
By engaging local communities and generations of emigrant
Central Europeans, Limmud Danube will connect participants
professionally, socially and spiritually, and reinforce the notion
of Jewish Peoplehood. Importantly, the event will showcase
the new Central European Jew who is unanchored, unfurled
and ready to sail on to a future that is yet to be written.

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Judit Mandl is an English and Hungarian


qualified lawyer and an inspired and
dedicated lay-leader in the Hungarian
Jewish community. She worked for
several years for top international law
firms and is currently in-house counsel
at a major European bank. She has
a J.D. degree from Etvs Lrnd
University and an LL.M. degree from
Columbia University School of Law. She
was among the founders of the Haver
Foundation in 2001, which educates
non-Jewish high-school students about
Judaism and the Holocaust to promote
interfaith dialogue and fight prejudice.
Currently, she is a member of the board
of Haver. She has been a Limmud
Hungary volunteer since 2009 and held
various roles before becoming a board
member in 2012. Earlier, she was a youth
leader in Habonim Dror and at Lauder
International Summer Camp. She did
not receive former Jewish education but
attended the Pardes Institute for Jewish
Studies summer program.

Name of project
Limmud Danube
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, The arts, Intercultural work
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
The next generation of Central European Jews is here. It is
invigorated, excited, and curious.
Once shattered communities of various size, continue to
be mended. They share common threads of history and
culture which can be capitalized on by coming together
for a joint event and building a unique, empowering and
connecting experience for each individual community.
Limmud Danube is a residential 3-day event of Jewish
learning and culture. From pickle making to Talmud studies,
Limmud Danube is a multi-cultural, multi-denominational,
cross-generational communal project with a potential to
incubate local Limmud events in the region.
The international team are experienced young professionals
from varied backgrounds passionate about volunteerism
and participation. As Limmud International volunteers, they
have previously facilitated local and regional events, and
bring in outside experience to the Jewish non-profit world.
By engaging local communities and generations of
emigrant Central Europeans, Limmud Danube will connect
participants professionally, socially and spiritually, and
reinforce the notion of Jewish Peoplehood. Importantly,
the event will showcase the new Central European Jew who
is unanchored, unfurled and ready to sail on to a future that
is yet to be written.

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Liliya Vendrova

Marik Shtern

Country Ukraine
Occupation Project coordinator, Juice

Country Israel
Occupation Strategic & PR Consultant, Yerushalmim Campaign Manager

Liliya was born in Kiev and later moved


to Israel. From this period of her life, she
has always connected with Jewish life,
through Jewish schools, as a participant
in Jewish Agency programs during 15
years and later as a Madricha and as
a Hebrew teacher. She has worked in
various companies as project manager
and marketing director. With the wish to
connect even more to Jewish community
life and to make good things happen,
she founded the Juice Platform, which
performs community service in Kiev
through encouraging philanthropy and
volunteer work.

Name of project
Platform Juice
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Community work, Increasing philanthropy
Project status
Running and moving towards expansion
About the project
Juice is a platform for charitable social initiatives in Kiev,
engaging young Jewish adults in various fundraising
campaigns to assist Jewish families at risk across Ukraine, and
especially children with urgent medical needs.
Juice was started in September 2012 by a group of young
volunteers and has since raised more than USD 10, 000 as
well as in-kind medical equipment, computers for single
elderly, school equipment, clothes and toys. People show
trust in us by coming to our events, giving money to help
others and knowing for sure that 100% of the proceedings
are channeled to charity.
In order to double our impact in 2014, we are looking for
assistance in covering operating expenses for more charity
projects so that we can further assist Jewish families and
children in Ukraine.

Marik is a social entrepreneur, a


community organizer and a strategic
consultant. He was born in Moscow, and
his family immigrated to Israel when he
was 2 years old. He was brought up in
the Jewish conservative community of
Jerusalem. In University, Marik completed
a B.A in Geography and History and
later graduated (with honors) with an
M.A. in Urban Geography. Since 2003,
Marik is active in environmental and
social organizations in Israel. Together
with council member Rachel Azaria he
has established Yerushalmim a local
socio-political movement that promotes
a pluralistic Jerusalem and fights
against religious extremism and gender
segregation in the city. Marik is also one of
the founders of 1.5 Generation- a group
of progressive young Russian speaking
activists. In 2009, he opened a private
strategic PR consulting firm ShternSaidov. Currently, Marik is the Campaign
manager of Yerushalmim for the next
municipal elections (oct 2013).

Name of project
JUB The Jerusalem Urban Biographys project
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Community work, Jewish modern history preservation
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the Jewish people.
Though many Jews around the world have passed through
Jerusalem, most of them havent stayed. Nowadays, many
feel alienated from Jerusalem. They may treat it as the
cradle of their ancient history, but do not feel they connect
emotionally to present day Jerusalem. Eventually, this process
weakens the city and its social & cultural fabric.
The JUB project aims to connect and reconnect present and
past Jerusalemites to Jerusalem itself and to each other, in
order to strengthen their sense of belonging to the city and
to promote solidarity and a shared urban identity.
The JUB project is essentially an urban biography based
on an innovative geographical social network. JUBs users
will reconstruct and revive the modern history of the city
by sharing personal memories and photographs from the
houses and apartments they used to live in. It will create
an accessible and interactive database of local history and
heritage. The JUB project will also provide an opportunity
for the users to meet their past neighbors again, as well as
friends and other people that have lived in Jerusalem.
The founder of the JUB project is Marik Shtern, an urban
geographer and a community organizer in Jerusalem. The
program has evolved from his ongoing activism in the
sphere of fostering equality and solidarity between the
residents of Jerusalem.

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Mirey Cukurel

Rka Eszter Bod

Country Turkey
Occupation Project Coordinator, Belstar Agency for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services

Country Hungary
Occupation Student, and Board Member of Limmud Hungary
Website www.limmud.hu/en

Mirey holds an MA in International


Management from IE Business School in
Madrid and a BA in Industrial Engineering
from Purdue University in Indiana. She is
currently a Project Coordinator at Belstar
Shipping Agency in Istanbul. She went
to Jewish elementary school and has
taken Madrichim classes and a number
of community seminars, cultural holiday
services and trips. She was a Project
Executer in Hadracha College in Istanbul
and a Member of United Nations Youth
Assembly. She has volunteered in the
Jewish community in Istanbul, most
recently in the Jewish Day Festival this year.

Name of project
Leave Your Trace
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, the Arts
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
As time passes, the Turkish Jewish collective identity is
diminishing, both among those living in Turkey today
and those who have left for other countries. In modern
Turkey, there are no means to learn and share the local
stories, and minimal interest in leaving a permanent trace
on the Jewish world. LEAVE YOUR TRACE is a dynamic
multimedia exhibition to awaken the Turkish Jewish identity.
The program will apply the inspiring strategies of the Beit
Hatfutsot Diaspora Museum of displaying video testimonies,
hosting My Family Story competitions among youth,
and establishing interactive digital platforms for visitors to
upload their personal journeys. The use of state-of-the-art
technology will attract an alienated younger generation to
engage in the continual work-in-progress. Committed local
team members include technological experts, historians and
young Jewish activists and volunteers.

Rka Eszter was born in a non-affiliated


Jewish family. She met Judaism in the
Szarvas Joint summer camp at the age
10 and since then she has been studying,
working and volunteering in the Jewish
community in various organizations, such
as the Israeli Cultural Institute, Limmud
Hungary and Bnei Akiva Hungary. She
has a first degree in physics and math and
after two years of yeshiva-style study at
the Conservative Yeshiva and Pardes, she
began studying at the masters program
of Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the
Talmud and halacha department.

Name of project
Limmud Hungary
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production, Community work,
Intercultural work, Spirituality
Project status
Running and moving towards expansion
About the project
Limmud is one of the greatest innovations in Jewish
education worldwide and is being brought to the next level
by a new generation of leaders.
Even the most flourishing Jewish communities, like Hungary,
lack a framework for dialogue and joint creative effort among
Jews regardless of affiliation, age, gender or profession. The
continuation and expansion of Limmud Hungary can fill
this gap. The volunteers creating a residential conference
serving as an inspiring, cross-communal, open learning space
for every age group will strengthen the Jewish identity of
individuals and of the community.
In the past seven years, the Limmud Hungary community
has enabled hundreds of people to take one more step
on their own Jewish journey. Thanks to the international
movement, Limmud Hungary is a safe and successful place
for the new generation of lay leaders to build together a
vibrant community.
Merging traditional Limmud values such as participation,
expanding Jewish horizons and commitment to respect
one another with a new educational and organizational
perspective creates a refreshing flavour within the
contemporary Hungarian Jewish community.

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Roman Odesschii

Symi Rom-Rymer

Country Moldova
Occupation Administrator, International Centre of Training and Professional Development
Website www.jewish.md

Country USA
Occupation Freelance Writer

Roman is the financial manager of the


International Center of Training and
Professional Development for the JDC in
Moldova. He is also a project coordinator
for the Name and Memory project at
Yad Vashem and an administrator for
the Business Mothers Project for the
World Jewish Relief, World ORT and JDC.
He has worked for a large number of
other Jewish projects as well, including
Claims Conference projects, Hillel and
others. He holds an MA from the Academy
of Economic Studies of Moldova,
department of Business Management and
Administration and did his high school
studies at the Jewish Lyceum Rambam
in Chisinau.

Name of project
Management for YOUth
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education
Project status
Pilot stage
About the project
Finding a job in Moldova is not an easy task for young Jews.
Knowledge of three languages is required, as well as practical
experience and proven management skills. Trainings are rare
and expensive.
Management for YOUth is based on a professional toolkit
designed to provide these skills, while strengthening
a sense of Jewish communal responsibility. The basics
of management will be taught in three languages, and
leadership and volunteering within the community will
give young people the hands-on practical experience that
is a pre-requisite on the current job market. Together with
a training certificate, this will improve the participants
employability
The project will be realized by ICTPD (International Center
of Training and Professional Development) a Jewish
NGO which is highly professional in developing training
methodologies.
In 2014, we will provide twelve youth leaders and educators
from twelve different Jewish organizations in Moldova with
three Train-the-Trainer seminars, acquainting them with a
methodological toolkit that will later help them provide eight
different training modules on Management, Volunteering
and Leadership to 300 young Jews for free.

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Symi is a freelance journalist who writes


about minority communities in the United
States and Europe. Shes been published
in various publications including: The
Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post, and
The Christian Science Monitor. She is also
the co-founder of the Global Muslim
Jewish Friendship Forum (GMJFF), a virtual
platform for Jews and Muslims around
the world to discuss and educate each
other about mutual concerns and the
issues affecting the two communities. In
2012, she was the recipient of The New
York Jewish Weeks 36 under 36 award
for her work with the GMJFF. She holds a
Masters degree from Columbia University.
Her Masters thesis was titled: A Study in
Perspectives: The rise of anti-Semitism
from 2000 2004, as reflected in Le
Monde and The New York Times. When
shes not writing or working on interfaith
relations, she is singing opera.

Name of project
Beyond the Shoah: Contemporary Jewish Life in Central and
Eastern Europe
Fields in which the project is to be realized
Education, Cultural production
Project status
Idea stage
About the project
It is important that people see that Jews are alive and that
we have individual histories. (Dekel Peretz, Jew in a Box
participant, Daily Mail, March 29, 2013)
It has been 20 years since the end of Communism and Jewish
communities in Central Europe are global, enthusiastic, and
here to stay.
What these communities have achieved over the past two
decades demand that they be treated as equals and no
longer as American Jews poorer cousins, by shattering
outmoded stereotypes that many Jews in the United States
have regarding the Jews of Central Europe. Through the use
of multimedia, the project aims to create a more nuanced
image of reality. By using in-person video interviews,
photographs, and social media, the project will tell the
stories of Jewish activists between the ages of 18 and 35,
thus shaping a new narrative around young Jews and Jewish
communities in the region.
As an award-winning Jewish social entrepreneur and a
journalist with a background in writing about international
Jewish communities, Symi Rom-Rymer is uniquely positioned
to take on this complex challenge.

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Erik Gribbe
Project-Incubator Director

Rani Jaeger
Jewish Content Tutor

Chaya Gilboa
Jewish Content Tutor

Barbara Lerner Spectre is the Founding


Director of Paideia. She was formerly on
the faculty of the Hartman Institute of
Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem,
where she taught Jewish Thought. She
was among the founders of the Seminary
of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem. Her area
of research is in models of inference in
Christian and Jewish post-Holocaust
theology, for which she received a research
grant from Yad VShem Institute. Barbaras
publications include A Theology of Doubt
(Hebrew) and, together with Noam Zion
of the Hartman Institute, the two-volume
A Different Light: The Hannukah Book
of Celebration. In 2007, she received the
prestigious Max M. Fisher Prize for Jewish
Education in the Diaspora.

Erik is the director of the Project-Incubator.


He also works with program management
and resource development at Paideia.
He holds a BA and MA in Business and
Economics from the Stockholm School
of Economics and a BA in Liberal Arts
from Stockholm University. Before joining
Paideia in 2007, he has worked for the
UNICEF, setting up a municipal statistics
office in the Dominican Republic, as a high
school teacher, translator and as volunteer
at the Red Cross for many years. His
previous background is in the performing
arts, as a dancer at the Royal Swedish
Ballet for ten years.

Rani teaches in the Paideia One-Year


Jewish Studies Program and was the
Scholar-in-Residence at Paideia for the year
2009-2010. Rani is the head of the teachers
training school at the Shalom Hartman
Institute, which pioneers a new model of
Jewish education for Israeli secular high
schools. He teaches at Tel-Aviv University
and is currently pursuing his PhD at
Bar-Ilan University, at the department of
Hermeneutics. Rani is one of the founders
of Beit Tefilah Israeli, a new liberal
synagogue in the heart of Tel Aviv.

Chaya Gilboa is an educator in Jewish


studies. She holds a BA in Jewish
Philosophy and History from Ben Gurion
University and an MA in Public Policy from
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She
teaches Jewish texts and Jewish philosophy
especially with a focus on identity and
pluralism. She has worked among other
places for the Jewish Agency for Israel,
Alma College, the Hebrew University, the
Masorti Youth Movement and Hillel student
organization. She is also a tour guide and a
social activist in religious policy issues.

Staff profiles

Staff profiles
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Barbara Lerner Spectre


Paideia Director

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Nirit Roessler
Project Development Tutor

Patrick Levy
Project Development Tutor

Hedva Radovanitz
Project Development Tutor

Gary Wexler is the Founding Revolutionary


of NonprofitRevolutionNow.com and the
Adjunct Lecturer in Nonprofit Marketing in
the Masters in Communication Program,
at the University of Southern Californias
Annenberg School of Communication
(USC/Annenberg). Gary began his
marketing career as a copywriter and
creative director in major multi-national
advertising agencies such as Chiat/Day,
McCann-Erickson, DDB-Needham and
Ogilvy&Mather, writing awards winning
ads, radio and television for clients ranging
from Apple Computer to Coca-Cola.
After 15 years, he switched to working
exclusively with clients in the nonprofit
world, including some of the largest
organizations and foundations in Jewish
life, in the US, Canada and Israel. Garys
work creating marketing campaigns,
training and lecturing over 1500
nonprofits has been covered extensively
in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Haaretz,
The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report,
the Forward and many other publications
and blogs.

Nirit is an organizational consultant


specializing in resource development and
strategy. For over 15 years she has been
a director of various training, consulting
and mentoring programs and has a vast
experience as a trainer, writing guidebooks,
and promoting sustainability of NGOs
both in Europe and in Israel. She is now
a freelance consultant and trainer as well
as the Professional Development Director
of JCU Jerusalem Culture Unlimited a
capacity-building program for Arts&Culture
organizations in Jerusalem. Her professional
track is vast including running special
projects in the Tower of David Museum in
Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute,
Shatil, the Pradler Capacity Building
Program and more. Nirit has been with the
Paideia Summer Incubator since 2007.

Patrick Levy is a counselor for Human Rights


and other non for profit organizations on
organizational strategy, peer education and
fund raising in Israel through the Joint, the
New Israel Fund and other bodies as well as
abroad through the UN. He also represents
the HATD foundation, is the co director of
Alumot- the Center for the Organization
of People with Disabilities in Israel and
leads multi-sectorial projects. After having
been a teacher in Israel, in Jewish schools
in France and the United Kingdom, he
served as executive director of national and
international non-for-profit organizations.
Patrick advises mayors of different cities
in Israel, businesses, foundations and
private donors both in the Jewish and Arab
communities in Israel and in the world. His
areas of specialization are tri-dimensional
projects (non-for-profit organizations,
institutions and businesses), cooperation
between businesses and the non-for-profit
sectors, peer education and health issues.

Hedva Radovanitz, now living in Tel Aviv,


grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Upper
Nazareth, Israel. While studying for an MA
degree in Modern History, she became
involved in Human Rights work, and has
since then filled a variety of positions in
Social Change non-profits in Israel, from
directing organizations to sitting on their
board of directors and volunteering for
day-to-day work. She has worked for ACRI,
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, as
the Tel Aviv chapter director; Physicians for
Human Rights, as executive director; Shatilthe Empowerment and Training Center
for Social Change Organizations, both as
a consultant and as the director of the
southern branch; and the New Israel Fund
as the associate director responsible for
grant making. On a personal level, she most
enjoys being with her family and reading.

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Gary Wexler
Project Development Tutor

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Miriam Benchetrit
Guest Tutor

Lena Posner-Krsi
Guest Speaker

Seth Cohen
Guest Speaker

Liora, with an M.B.A., University of Haifa


(2006), an M.A. International Affairs,
George Washington University (1993),
and a B.A., University California, Berkeley
(1989) has over 20 years of professional
experience in project management,
training, and Resource Development
and Financial Management consulting.
Over the past decade, Liora has worked
as Resource Development and Financial
Management Consultant at Shatil - Israels
leading capacity building center for social
change organizations, providing support
to hundreds of NGOs throughout the
country. Liora is an experienced trainer on
a broad array of resource development
and financial topics, as a lecturer at the
University of Haifas NGO management
program over the past three years, and
as a veteran international trainer with the
Galilee International Management Institute.

Miriam has been involved in the leadership


of grant-making and capacity building
organizations in Israel and Europe for 15
years. Today, she works as a consultant
to NGOs and foundations and runs the
Westbury Group, a network of more than
20 international foundations, devoted
to providing insight into issues facing
European Jewish communities, supporting
activism and building organizational
capacity. Miriam was Chief Executive of The
Rothschild Foundation (Europe), where she
built and operated grant programs offering
financial support to over 500 organizations
across Europe, working to strengthen
Jewish life. As Executive Director of the
Minerva Center for Human Rights at
the Hebrew University, she organized
international conferences on human rights
issues and operated the first internship-forcredit course at the university. Previously,
Miriam ran a volunteer clearing house that
placed hundreds of international volunteers
with NGOs in Israel. Miriam holds a BA
Honors in Politics and an MSc in Politics of
Africa and Asia. She studied in Montreal
and London and is a native speaker of
English, Hebrew and German.

Lena is since 13 years the chair of the


Stockholm Jewish Community as well
as for the Official Council of Jewish
Communities in Sweden. She is on the
executive of European Jewish Congress,
on the board of European Jewish Fund,
and sits on the Advisory Council of
World Jewish Diplomatic Corps. Lena
was one of the founders of Paideia in
the year of 2000 and since then sits on
the Paideia board. Professionally, she is
a trained psychologist, working in the
field of marketing and organization. She
was born in Sweden by a Swedish-born
mother (Russian grandparents) and a
German-born father, who came to Sweden
as a child just before the war. Lena is
the mother of two sons and married to
Andreas, who was born in Hungary.

Seth Cohen is the Director of Network


Initiatives at the Charles and Lynn
Schusterman Family Foundation, part
of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman
Philanthropic Network, a global network of
philanthropic initiatives focused on igniting
the passion and unleashing the power in
young people to create change. Based in
Atlanta, Seth leads the Foundations global
efforts to leverage philanthropy, network
theory and technology to identify, connect
and support networks of young Jewish
adults and enable them to create valuesbased experiences and communities for
themselves and their peers.

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Liora Asa
Project Development Tutor

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schedule

day

GETTING STARTED
Tuesday July 30
14:00

day

BEING A SOCIAL ACTIVIST


Wednesday July 31

day

FROM IDEA TO IMPACT


Thursday Aug 1

day

LOOKING OUTSIDE
Friday Aug 2

09:00 Frame the day

09:00 Frame the day

09:00 Frame the day

16:00 Reception

09:30 Social Innovation and Leadership

16:30

Welcome and orientation to program

09:30 Look before you jump: Mapping the


External and Internal Environment of
Our Project

17:30

Getting to know each other

10:00 Intro to Jewish Hevruta learning -


Leaders and Innovators in Jewish Tradition

09:30 Change through the concept of


Tikkun Olam

19:00

Dinner and discussion with


Barbara Lerner Spectre

Registration

11:45

11:15
13:00

From Motivation to Vision: Becoming a


Social Idealist our history

13:00

Lunch

14:00

1:1 / group mentoring sessions

17:15

Heroes for Change

From Vision to Impact


Lunch

11:15

From Vision to Outcomes

13:00

Lunch

14:00

The Creative Process

15:45

The Case Statement

14:00 The Fundamentals of Marketing


Social Change

17:15

1:1 / group mentoring sessions

15:00

1:1 / group mentoring sessions

17:00

Preparation for Shabbat

18:30

Shabbat services (optional): conservative


Great Synagogue

19:30

Shabbat services (optional): orthodox


Adat Jeshurun

19:45 Dinner

18:30 Dinner

day

SHABBAT
A TIME FOR REST
AND CONTEMPLATION
Saturday Aug 3
17:30

Seudah Shlishit

18:30

Discussions on Identity with Gary Wexler

20:45 Shabbat dinner at Paideia

day

TEAM: BUILDING & VOLUNTEERS


Sunday Aug 4

day

MAKING IT HAPPEN
Monday Aug 5

day

BUDGETING
Tuesday Aug 6

day

ITS ALL ABOUT RESOURCES


Wednesday Aug 7

day

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CLOSING ONE DOOR,


OPENING ANOTHER...
Thursday Aug 8

09:10

Bus to Swedish countryside

09:00 Frame the day

09:00 Frame the day

09:00 Frame the day

11:30

What is a Jewish project?

09:30 Group work on goals & objectives

09:30 Budgeting made accessible

09:30 Introduction to Resource Development

09:30 Frame the Day

13:00

Lunch

11:15

Modern Jewish Entrepreneurship

11:15

Budget Components

11:00

10:00 Evaluation in Judaism-what is success?

12:15

Making it Happen

12:15

Steps to Create a Budget

Working with Foundations


the Dos and Donts

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Working with the Business Sector

15:45

1:1 / group mentoring sessions


(See separate schedule)

18:30

Leave from Paideia

19:00

Boat trip to Vaxholm

14:00 Community as my Resource /


Working with Volunteers
15:45

Outdoor Training

17:15

Dinner

19:30

Bus to Stockholm

13:15

Lunch

13:15

Lunch

14:15

1:1 / group mentoring sessions


(See separate schedule)

14:15

Financial Monitoring and


Reporting

15:15 Peer Presentations


16:30 The Creative Process to seize the
conversation
18:30

Dinner and discussion with


Lena Posner-Krsi

15:30
18:30

Individual Work
Dinner

10:45- Wrap-up and Summaries


12:00

Useful information
Paideia the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
Nybrogatan 21, Stockholm. Closest Subway stermalmstorg
Phone +46 (0)8 6795555
Youth Hostel
Af Chapman Youth Hostel, Skeppsholmen. Phone 08-463 22 66
Taxi Stockholm 15 00 00
Emergency Number for Police, Fire and Ambulance 112
Website for bus and subway sl.se

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THANK YOU

We are very grateful to the following staff


and speakers who have been with us and
the participants during 10 wonderful days
in Stockholm in the summer of 2013:
Tutors:
Chaya Gilboa
Gary Wexler
Hedva Radovanitz
Liora Asa
Nirit Roessler
Patrick Levy
Rani Jaeger
Guest speakers:
Lena Posner-Krsi
Miriam Benchetrit
Seth Cohen

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