Diversity Network

During the events of our project we came across and got to know a great range of organizations and educators from Germany and Israel, that have diverse professional backgrounds and are in different ways engaged in issues of diversity-conscious and discriminatory-sensitive education, youth work and exchange. Our declared aim is to connect the dots of a German-Israeli educational network that actively deepens the consciousness of democratic values in youth work and exchange projects.

Therefore, we are going to introduce several organizations from Israel and Germany in the section Diversity Network to convey an impression of the great variety of our partners and current subjects in this field of work. We are furthermore posting comments, articles and presentations of our partners.

Krembo Wings – Creating a Place for Everyone

Krembo Wings is the only inclusive youth movement in Israel for children and youth with and without disabilities, providing weekly social activities for young people with all types of mental and physical disabilities together with their able-bodied peers. Established in 2002, Krembo Wings has sixty-five branches across Israel, and welcomes thousands of young people aged…

Beit Theresienstadt Educational Center

Hani Pultorak

Various institutions in Israel deal with places of persecution and ghettoization during the Shoah in Europe. They commemorate the victims but also educate future generations. One of them is Beit Terezin at which Hani Pultorak works as an educator. She is also one of our Israeli partners of the project ‘Living Diversity in Germany and…

“Highlighting a Range of Inner-Israeli Perspectives …” – Young Forum (Ruhr) of the German-Israeli Association

Jonas Heidebrecht, a trainee teacher in art and philosophy, is a founding member of the Young Forum – Ruhr. As part of the German-Israeli Association (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, DIG), it is committed to strengthening relations between both countries. Jonas took part in two professional seminars of our “Living Diversity” project. We spoke with him for our…

Leadership Oriented Towards Joint Israeliness (English/Hebrew)

Nelly Markman

In the new edition of our “Diversity Network” series we feature Nelly Markman. Nelly is scholarship holder in a program of the Mandel Leadership Institute in Israel. Nelly is an educator and youth counselor. For the last few years she has been head of the youth counselor department of the Israel Hebrew Scouts Movement. In…

Get To Know … Youth Network Lambda e.V.

Nora Ellerbrock is a project coordinator for Youth Network Lambda, working with LGBTIQ* youth in Germany. They took part in the professional exchanges as well as in the conference of the project “Living Diversity”. We talked with them about their work, the institution Lambda and their experience with our project “Living Diversity”. Nora, what was…

Meeting ‘the Other’ Through Your Own History

Yonathan Bar-On

Yonathan Bar-On is a historian (specializations: French Jewry, anti-Semitism, and migrants in Europe) and an English teacher at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa. He emigrated to Israel from the Netherlands in 1995. At his school, which takes part in and is responsible for a wide range of international and multicultural activities, Yonathan has…

(Hi)stories of a District

Germany has always been an immigration country. But it is only in the last two decades that the country considers its multicultural character as an integral part of its society. During our conference in November we opened the floor for a discussion around impulses for action in order to empower a productive and accepting coexistence…

On Shared Existence in the Negev

This week we talked with Jamal Alkirnawi, executive director of the organization “A New Dawn in the Negev”. Jamal has been part of two programs in the frame of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel” and he shared with us his thoughts on the importance of diversity-conscious education in his organization as well…

My Pain – Your Pain: The Battle on Collective Memory

Nili Keren

The following article has been contributed by Nili Keren, Ph.D., former teachers’ trainer and lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. She is internationally recognized for her important work in Holocaust Education as well as research on the shaping of memory of the Holocaust in European countries. The national collective narrative of the…