Tzahar region, Israel
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Tzahar
region, Israel
The
Tzahar region is located in the upper Galilee, in the North of
Israel. It contains Tzfat, Rosh-pina and Hatzor. Tzfat, is one of
the oldest cities in Israel, its old city is well preserved and
is beautiful to look at. Rosh-pina was founded in the end of the
19th century and Hatzor, in the middle of the 20th
century. Those places are pretty small (Tzfat is the biggest and
it has about 30,000 settlers) but they are still very good to
live in. Tzfat has more than 200 synagogues spread all around the
city, you can actually see the combination of the new age and
modern life, with the old life style and the Jewish tradition.
This area is one of many others all around Israel, which take
part in many different programs that involve teenagers.
Palm
Beach County, Florida, USA
The
Jewish community of Palm Beach is one of the strongest and
wealthiest Jewish communities in the world. There are many active
youth groups in the area that are based around the Kaplan Jewish
Community Center, The Jewish Federation of Palm Beach, and The
Commission for Jewish Education. Teenagers come from all over the
community to gather every Wednesday night at the Arthur I. Meyer
Jewish Academy for Judaic Institute sponsored by the commission.
There they learn the different aspects of Judaism as well as meet
new friends. J.I. helps form a very close knit Jewish community
of youths all over the county. The Federation is very involved
with international Jewish relations and is the sponsor of many
different programs (like this one) around the world. Palm Beach
County is the foundation of the creation of a more united
international Jewish community.
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Saint-Petersburg…….
What are the first associations : white nights, ‘north palmira’
, cultural capital of Russia….. But we will write about Saint
–Petersburg not according to these statements. We will talk
about Jewish Saint-Petersburg.
Many
famous Jews lived there. So we can say that they create their own
special atmosphere of the city. The most special about those
people is the way they mixed the Russian high culture with their
Judaism. That means they don’t give up the attributes of the
Russian cultural world as: art, theater, ballet, intellectual
studies of those issues and of history, philosophy, sciences and
so on. But at the same time they united all those with their
Jewish every day life and studies. Some of them discovered their
Judaism through divine and holiness that comes from the art but
most of them develop that by studying history philosophy and “halacha”.
During the hard communist times there also was a large group of
brave people who continued following Jewish traditions although
that was forbidden. Nowadays there are a lot of activities and
programs connected to Judaism and many people take part in them:
sochnut programs such as: naale, sela and halom, holidays, youth
club, summer camps, hesed organization, “beit hellel”.