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Culture Connection ·

Election #3 – The Funnies

December 2019 Culture Connection We’re well into the festive season, so we may as well have a laugh about the state of Israel’s democracy… As…

Israel ·

Whatsapp in Israel? – Jan 21, 2019

A) This week Jerusalem is hosting 45 world leaders🗺 as they gather for a conference🏛 to remember the Holocaust and to combat antisemitism. Major traffic…

Podcast ·

Podcast 159 How to Make Israeli Politics More Civil

In recent weeks, two leaders from Israel’s religious right have made rude, dismissive remarks about large segments of Israeli society. In these particular cases, the…

Blog ·

For American and Israeli Jews, ‘wrestling and hugging’ must go both ways

Today, a change is needed. We can no longer expect that Israelis will unconditionally embrace every American Jew who comes to Israel. As published in…

Makom Israel Teachers Lounge

The Makom Israel Teachers Lounge is a weekly podcast with veteran Israel Educators Mike Unterberg and Alan Goldman, taking you behind the headlines to let you know what’s really going on in Israeli politics, news and culture.

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I have been on several trips to Israel, and this was one of the most substantive, content-wise. I walked away from 4HQ feeling empowered and excited to have more conversations about Israel/Palestine. The staff were so knowledgeable and professional, and the trip looked flawless...Thank you!

This grassroots program helped create new portals of Israel and communal engagement to so many individuals and families as well as creating a new bond between Jewish Toronto’s communal institutions. These young emissaries not only inspired anew our connection to Israel, they helped us appreciate just how important is our connection to each other."

Ted Sokolsky, President and CEO, UJA-Federation of Greater Toronto

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With our signature “Hugging and Wrestling with Israel and the Jewish People”, our expert team offers a cutting-edge approach that sparks and inspires Jewish hope. Makom empowers educators, rabbis, activists, arts and community leaders across the spectrum to ask tough questions, articulate compelling visions, and provides the content and tools to craft honest programming. As the Education Lab of The Jewish Agency, Makom has developed 1000 educational units, delivered seminars for 15,000 educators, and consulted for 250 leaders, institutions, and communities.

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