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Programs - תוכנית הדרכה

Love Israel? Tell everyone. Get involved. Find a program you like and use it! Contact information is provided below.

Adult Programs - Israel Advocacy

TEAM is a non profit whose purpose is to train individuals to effectively speak in public venues representing a fair and balanced view of the middle east.

Training seminars are free of charge. They are run by JJ Surbeck who is an attorney with years of experience working with the International Red Cross.

We have a small but loud and active set of professors in San Diego who regularly set up panels with one sided points of view and Israelis who reflect a minority opinion both in the Jewish Community and in Israel.

TEAM seeks to ensure such panels and programs provide a well rounded set of views and more accurate facts of the situation on the ground and its history.

This is the best way to counter anti-Israel propeganda in San Diego and in particular those individuals who seek to distort and take advantage of people who unknowingly invite them to speak.

Web site: http://www.sandiegoteam.org/

Fuel for Truth

Founded in the wake of 9/11, Fuel For Truth considers itself the "Special Forces" of Israel advocacy, equipping young Americans with the basic facts and skills necessary to advocate for Israel among their peers.

The organization produces mega-events in New York City nightclubs that reach hundreds of young people at a time - Jews and non-Jews alike - and other sizable events on college campuses around the country. These events, and the organization's ten-week "Boot Camp" for its most engaged volunteers, help attendees learn basic facts about Israel and the Middle East, through Fuel for Truth's unique methodology for Israel advocacy.

Top 10 Facts You Need to Know:
http://www.fuelfortruth.org/about-1.html

Stand With Us

This organization has a variety of great tools primarily for college age and older, but some
may be appropriate for high school use.

http://www.standwithus.org/TEACHINGTOOLS/index1.asp

They have some amazing flyers in PDF format to download. And flyers in Spanish, Arabic, and French as well.

A few flyers as samples - see more on their web site:

Human Rights in the Middle East
http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/human_rights.pdf

Arab Apartheid: The Mistreatment of the Palestinians at the hands of the Arabs must stop.
http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/arabapartheid.pdf

David Project

This program is 14 lesson program for jewish day schools, 7 lesson program for Congregational schools, 3 lesson program on forgotten refugees from Arab lands.

Truth cards are available for download - http://davidproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=37&Itemid=59

Contact: Erik Miller, Campus Coordinator, Midwest / Mid Atlantic 617.428.0012 x 1156

efm@davidproject.org (for students to contact directly)

The San Diego Hebrew High School has provided this program to a limited number of students in the past.

AIPAC

The American Israel Political Action Committee has a variety of creative projects for use in Schools. Examples include drafted petitions that give children an opportunity to talk with other students when they are asking them to sign them.

Contact Aliza at 202-639-5219.
Main AIPAC number:
http://www.aipac.org/For_Students/index.asp

JNF - Jewish National Fund

Caravan for Democracy High School Edition

Joint program between JNF and Media Watch International. This program brings speakers to campus to work with your students.

http://www.jnf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=caravanfordemocracy

Phone: 1-800-969-5585 ext. 247 or caravan@jnf.org

Learn Israel.org

On this site you can download lesson plans that meet California and national standards for a variety of subjects, select books, films and CD's which they will donate to your public or school library as long as they are catalogued, schedule speaker programs.

I highly recommend the categories in the lesson plans for Science & Technology and Humanitarian Outreach and Deserts and Desertification.

http://www.learnisrael.org/

"Eyes on Israel"

This program has four modules, suitable for use in a day-school, community high school or congregational school setting, regardless of denomination. The four sections are:

1) Journalism and its Responsibilities
2) U.N. Resolution 242: A Case-Study in Media Coverage
3) What You Can Do
4) A Brief History of Modern Israel

CAMERA is distributing the curriculum free of charge.

Schools will receive a CD compete with lesson plans, student handouts and teacher's aids in PDF format as well as the multimedia material - radio and television broadcasts, PowerPoint slide shows - referenced in the four modules. Individual schools would then be responsible for printing out the materials they plan on using.

For more information about "Eyes on Israel," contact CAMERA's curriculum coordinator, Hillel Zaremba, at hillelz@camera.org or by phone at 610-667-4026.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1402

Write On For Israel is an intensive two-year program that trains a select group of high school students to become advocates for Israel through journalism.

A project of the Jewish Week of New York and funded by the AVI CHAI Foundation, Write On For Israel empowers students to advocate for Israel through writing, broadcasting, and public speaking. Seminars are taught by top educators and journalists and feature Israeli officials, IDF officers, PR executives and other professionals.

http://www.writeonforisrael.org/

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