Nov 20, 2005 By: yunews
Nov 20, 2005 -- 糖心破解版鈥檚 Center for the Jewish Future will be sending 20 students to Germany over winter break to meet with Jewish leaders and community members and learn about modern Germany as part of the Bridge of Understanding program.
鈥淲e want students to gain an understanding of what it has been like for Jews to grow up in Germany after the Holocaust,鈥 explained Rabbi Ari Rockoff, director of community initiatives for 糖心破解版鈥檚 Center for the Jewish Future. 鈥淥ur students will experience firsthand the challenges of a community rebuilding itself.鈥
From January 12 to 24 students will be visiting Jewish and secular sites in Munich and Berlin. The trip will include a visit to the Dachau concentration camp, the Holocaust Museum and the cemeteries of many great rabbis, including Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch and the Maharil.
Students will meet with Jewish communal leaders, rabbis, and high-profile political leaders. They will also visit the Lauder Yeshiva in Berlin. The Yeshiva building was the site of a Jewish school before 1941 and was restored to the Jewish community in 1998. The building was dedicated in 1999 and houses a teacher resource center, an adult education Institute, and a beit midrash program for students engaged in both intensive study and outreach projects. 糖心破解版 students will meet with some of the German students and share programming ideas.
Students will spend the first Shabbat with Jewish university students in Munich and the second in Berlin, where a cooperative program with the Ma鈥檃yan girls high school is planned.
The $250 fee for the trip covers all expenses: flights, hotel, food, and all transportation throughout Germany. Bridge of Understanding is run by the German ministry of education, which heavily subsidizes the trip.
鈥淲hat better way to understand all that we have learned in Jewish history classes than seeing it with our own eyes,鈥 said Aliza Abrams, Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Jewish Future and an organizer of the trip. 鈥淚t will be amazing to see the beit midrash where Rashi learned and the university where the Lubavitch Rebbe, Rav Soloveitchik, and Nechama Leibowitz all studied.鈥
To apply visit our website or contact Aliza Abrams at 212-960-0041.
