7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome to be a part of our musical Erev Shabbat service. Please come and pray with Rabbi Rosalind and Cantor Ellen in this wonderful service.
BIJ Erev Shabbat NIF Guest Speakers
Following services on Friday night
October 26, 2007 --
In conjunction with the New Israel Fund NIForum Oct 17th-28th 2007,
Congregation Beth Israel Judea is proud to present the following speakers:
Ilana Litvak is the Project Coordinator for the former Soviet Union (FSU) program run by Shatil. She manages proactive work in the field of immigrant youth-at-risk. Prior to working at Shatil, Litvak worked as a coordinator for the Hebrew University's project Perach ("flower" in Hebrew). She was in charge of 60 students who worked with children with social and mental challenges. Litvak was born in the FSU and has lived in Jerusalem since immigrating to Israel in 1987. Following her army service as a research assistant, she received her BA in political science and Middle East studies at the Hebrew University, and subsequently an MA in public policy. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the cultural sensitivity of immigrant students' absorption in Israeli high schools.
Since spring of 2007 Becky Buckwald has been the associate director of New Israel Fund's (NIF) San Francisco office. Prior to joining the NIF, she was the San Francisco director of the Jewish Coalition for Literacy. Becky was born and raised in San Francisco, and received her BA in religious studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She spent her junior year abroad in Jerusalem After college, Becky returned to Israel to intern at SHAHAR, a grassroots movement devoted to empowerment of at-risk youth-mainly minorities and immigrants-in disadvantaged Israeli neighborhoods. Inspired by that experience, Becky made aliyah and enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received an MA in cultural anthropology. During that time she also continued to work part-time as a grant writer at the New Israel Fund.