Euroasian Jewish News

EAJC Representatives Participate in Forum of Education and Youth

Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) representative Evgenia Mihaleva (Russia), EAJC General Council member Irina Scherban (Russia) and Jemal Ajiashvili (Georgia) have taken part in the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) General Assembly on education and youth programs, which has taken place is Paris.

The organizators of the event were the ECJC President, head of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine Igor Kolomoisky and the head of the Pan-Ukrainian Jewish Congress Vadim Rabinovich.

The forum included among its participants hundreds of educators, community leaders, youth leaders, and specialists in informal Jewish education from the CIS, USA, and Israel. Guests of honor included the French Minister of State for Transport, Therry Mariani, the Israeli Minister of Education Gideon Saar, leader of the Jewish Community of France Pierre Besnainou, as well as parliamentarians from Belgium, Romania, Israel, and Ukraine.

The representatives of the New Zealand Jewish community Tanya Thomson presented the orgnizators of the General Assembly with a message from the EAJC President Alexander Mashkevich. The EAJC leader's message read: “Work on educating and bringing up youth is key to preserving the Jewish self-awareness, the very existence of the Jewish people in the future...

We live in an incredibly saturated world, full of different opportunities and temptations, especially for young people. And amidst all of these events, possibilities, and temptations, our Tradition might be thrown to the wayside. I hope that the General Assembly will be able to find a way to preserve our Tradition for the youth and our youth for the Tradition.
It is important that this meeting united specialists in formal and informal Jewish education with professional community workers. It is this composition that will allow the participants of the forum to more fully define the problems of working with youth and to find solutions to these problems.”