Volunteer & Study, co-sponsored by the Conservative Yeshiva of United Synagogue and Skilled Volunteers for Israel (SVFI), comprises a half-day of study at the Yeshiva and a half day of volunteering with an Israeli non-profit organization in Jerusalem. The program is open to college students and adults of all learning levels and religious backgrounds who Continue Reading »
Repair the World blogpost on the Volunteer & Study Program
Skilled Volunteers for Israel placed Mordecai Walfish as a volunteer archivist with the Mandel Foundation. Read about his experience sharing his very unique expertise. For the past three years, I have been working for the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner (BJPA), first as its content manager, then its Assistant Director, and now as Continue Reading »
Of Interest: HaAretz (25 August 2011) article about the first African refugee to start Israel’s pre-army national service program. Tom Hassan is doing his national service at Nitzana, an educational youth village located just beyond the border with Egypt. Nitzana offers a variety of educational programs that serve Israeli and Global Jews including disadvantaged Israeli Continue Reading »
This post was written by Gina Milano after her second volunteer experience with Skilled Volunteers for Israel. After completing my wonderful volunteer project with low income Israeli teens at the Youth Education Village of Nitzana in the heart of the Negev desert, I geared up for the next assignment: conducting an English as a Second Continue Reading »
This post was written by Gina Milano from New Jersey and Roseli Ejzenberg from Maryland who are among the first volunteers for Skilled Volunteers for Israel. We are pioneers in the desert in more ways than one. We are volunteers from the new organization “Skilled Volunteers for Israel” started by Marla Gamoran in the U.S Continue Reading »
Lisa Pengitore, a special education teacher from New Jersey with 19 years of classroom experience, volunteered teaching English in Jerusalem through a program called “Ma’avarim.” Lisa’s volunteer assignment was facilitated by Skilled Volunteers for Israel through Jerusalem Venture Partner’s “BaKehila’” which works with youth in four disadvantaged Jerusalem neighborhoods. During the summer, BaKehila runs the Continue Reading »
The value of volunteering is estimated at $400 BILLION globally based on previous research and reported in a Volunteer Match blog, approximately “double the value of cash and other valuables contributed by individuals, corporations and foundations”. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Studies and the International Labor Organization have put together a manual that adopts a Continue Reading »
This post was written by Rabbi Ted Stainman who is volunteering as an English tutor in Netanya with the Ethiopian National Project (ENP). The ENP works closely with Ethiopian youth between the ages of 13 -18 in 20 communities throughout Israel. Rabbi Stainmen is sharing his experiences with Skilled Volunteers for Israel. I just had Continue Reading »
The article by Paula Jacobs in The Jewish Week does a great job of capturing the compelling reasons for actively engaging with Jewish Baby Boomers, and she also provides some basic suggestions on how to do so. Her message – don’t waste precious time planning and studying what to do and don’t lump all the Continue Reading »
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