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Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
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Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
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Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
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Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
14/08/2024
Celebrating its 32st anniversary, Midreshet Schechter held its annual Teachers’ Training Seminar in late June near Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine.
35 educators (teachers, community activists, camp counselors), arrived from 3 cities (Kyiv, Odessa, Chernivtsi). Unfortunately, educators from Kharkhiv could not join due to the heavy bombardment of their city.
Educators’ Seminar Participants pre-Shabbat photo
This year’s focus was shared experiences of “Coping with War in Israel and Ukraine,” and “Lessons from the Holocaust for Today.”
The five-day intensive seminar included study, pedagogical training, exchange of professional knowledge and advice as well as a respite from the travails of the war.
Seminar highlights included meeting with Rachel Sharansky Danziger (journalist, teacher, and daughter of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky) and Rabbi Shlomo Zacharow, Masorti rabbi and teacher of Ukraine’s newly minted Kashrut supervisors.
In-person and interactive zoom sessions focused on events of Oct. 7th and their aftermath. Sharansky Danziger described her personal experiences hearing the sirens, running to the bomb shelter with her children and trying to calm them via praying and singing. She described the extraordinary volunteer spirit of Israeli society following Oct 7th from cooking food for soldiers and families whose husbands were in reserve duty to equipping soldiers with missing equipment to helping displaced refugees with housing, clothing, and more.
Schechter student Anat Alkabets, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, described in detail what happened to her and her family on Oct 7th. Sivan, her 23 year old daughter and her boyfriend Naor Hasidim, were brutally murdered by Hamas while taking cover in their small kibbutz apartment.
Finally, Yevgeny Riazanov, a young Oleh originally from Chernivtsi, described his callup to reserve duty in Israel’s North on Oct. 7th.
An unexpected pleasure for the educators was finding Yosef Zissels, Executive Co-President of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (Va’ad of Jews in Ukraine) in the same hotel site. He spoke to the seminar about both Israel and Ukraine being bulwarks of democracy against totalitarian regimes. He also examined the role of the Ukrainian people during the Holocaust and the high number of Righteous Gentiles recognized among them.
L-R: Dr. Etka Liebowitz, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, Yosef Zissels
Other sessions included:
Lastly, the seminar also provided an important opportunity for three community leaders – Lev Kleyman from Chernivtsi, Maxim Melnikov from Kyiv and Zeev Walsman from Odessa – to interact and plan for joint Shabbat community visits so as to become better acquainted.
Midreshet Schechter expresses appreciation for the seminar’s support from:
