Since autumn 2015 ConAct has been working on fostering the exchange on diversity in Germany and Israel through various bilateral events within the frame of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel – Challenges and Perspectives for Education and Youth Exchange”. The newly released booklet Living Diversity in Germany and Israel: Snapshots – Contemplations…
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…
Between November 14 and 16, 2016 ConAct hosted a conference in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in cooperation with the Israel Youth Exchange Authority. 120 German and Israeli professionals met to discuss diversity in education and youth exchange, to find out similarities and differences between both countries, to learn from each other and to laugh together. Watch our…
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…
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…