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Getting To Really Know Our Own People Is Priceless...

By the two wonderful Young shlichim Shay and Einat Kozer-Niego, now ending their two years of Shlichut in Youngstown, Ohio

Our Shlichut in Youngstown

At the middle of the year 2007, we suddenly realized that this is it. Life has started. University - done, carrier - at the beginning and the lifelong race of getting around the world is here. We wanted some time, we weren't ready for it, not yet, and we looked at options. We came across the Young Shlichut Program and thought it might be it: the Jewish Agency sends young couples or single Israelis, in the ages 23 - 30, to small Jewish communities around the world.

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Partnership with Israel

As one of 16 U.S. Jewish communities within the UJC central region that join together to collaborate with Western Galilee, a strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, through Partnership with Israel, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas is making a direct impact on the day-to-day lives of Israeli citizens. By forming this partnership, the Federation has helped transform the fundraiser/beneficiary relationship Americans have traditionally had with Israelis into a true partnership of peers, cooperating to build stronger ties between Israel and the Jewish people. The people of Western Galilee hope for peace and work toward economic and cultural development and do so with help from their Partnership with Israel friends in America.

Developed in 1994, Partnership with Israel (formerly Partnership 2000) helps Jews living in Israel and the Diaspora bridge the geographic and cultural gaps separating them. Focusing on the joint goals of developing Israel's peripheries and intensifying Jewish identity, Partnership emphasizes personal interaction among members of overseas Jewish communities—including Dallas—and their partners in 28 Israeli development regions. Partnership with Israel is dedicated to strengthening personal relationships between Jews in America and Israel through school, culture and medical exchange programs.

If you are interested in being a part of this exciting life-changing initiatve, you are welcome to join the Overseas Committee, chaired by Andy Lipkin. For more information, please contact Andy Lipkin at (330) 746-3251 ext. 111 or alipkin@jewishyoungstown.org

Beth Zuriel is the director of the Central Area Consortium and has been been serving the Partnership since its inception. Beth earned her Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has trained to be a mediator and a life coach. She made Aliyah from Ohio over thirty years ago and is married with five children (and three grandchildren) living in Ma’ale Adumim, outside of Jerusalem.  

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What is Partnership with Israel?

Partnership With Israel is a program sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha's Annual Campaign and the Jewish Agency for Israel that promotes people-to-people relationships between our Jewish community and Israel's Western Galilee through cultural, social, educational and economic programs. Omaha is part of a consortium with other cities in the central United States and is linked with the Western Galilee, located in the most northern part of Israel along the Mediterranean coast.