\”We talk a lot about the symptoms for this phenomenon but not enough about the causes of violence,\” said Gideon Fishman, head of Haifa University\’s Minerva Center for the Study of Youth. \”If we do not explore the causes, nothing will help — neither more policemen nor more punitive measures.\”
A quiet crisis is unfolding here. It\’s grabbing few headlines and it\’s rarely the stuff of public debate.
American Jewish leaders who created the United Jewish Communities (UJC) umbrella organization out of three separate ones in 1999 are largely frustrated and disappointed by the outcome of their labor, with some scoring the missed chance to form a truly representative and forward-looking voice for American Jewry.
Everybody talks about Israel, but, surprisingly, there is no teaching, research and community program at an American university that focuses solely on the Jewish state in all its multiple facets.
\”We didn\’t have the resources and knowledge of how Israel has been changing according to the international arena,\” said Jewish-day-school teacher Ziva London on a break between sessions at an Israel teacher education workshop at the University of Judaism (UJ).
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