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Plenary Presentations

The following presentations were given during the various plenary sessions at the November 2008 conference in Jerusalem.

Author			Title

Dr. Misha Galperin			Communities in Transition

Brian Lurie			Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

Steve Schwager			Impact of Globalization on Israel and Jewish Communities Worldwide

Dr. Jeffrey R. Solomon			Coalition Building

Track Session Summaries

The following are summaries of the discussion group sessions held on November 20th for each of the 3 conference tracks.

			Track

			A. Promoting Jewish Peoplehood

			B. Coping with External Threats

			C. Stepping Across the Generational Divide

Track Session Presentations

The following presentations were given during the various discussion group sessions at the November 2008 conference in Jerusalem.

A. Promoting Jewish Peoplehood

Author			Title

Dr. Eric Levine			Promoting Jewish Peoplehood – Opening & closing remarks

Tamar Wisemon			Sviva Israel

B. Coping with External Threats

Author			Title

Rabbi Bob Kaplan			Coping with External Threats in New York’s New Diversity

Prof. Mooli Lahad			Challenges in Managing Coalition Projects

Brenda Solarsh & Rodney Richard			Socio-Political Changes in South Africa – PowerPoint Presentation

			Socio-Political Changes in South Africa – Presentation Text

Dalia Yosef			Sderot - Life under continuous threat: What keeps us going?

C. Stepping Across the Generational Divide

Author			Title

Yizhar Hess, Esq.			Next Generation

Reference Materials

The following are reference materials distributed at or made reference to during the various discussion group sessions of the conference.

A. Promoting Jewish Peoplehood

Author			Title

Smadar Bar-Akiva			Promoting Jewish Peoplehood - Sources

Prof. Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer			Whatever Happened to the Jewish People

Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz and Art Engelberg			A framework for Strategic Thinking about Jewish Peoplehood

Sh'ma שמע			Inside Peoplehood issue - October

United Jewish Communities			The Peoplehood Papers – November 2007

United Jewish Communities, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies at Beth Hatefutsoth and KolDor			The Peoplehood Papers 2 – Spring 2008

World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers’ Tri-Center Project

A unique project that connects Jewish Community Centers in North America, Israel and other parts of the Jewish world.
To watch informational video go to: Tri-Center Project 2008 video

Jewish Peoplehood Initiatives

Research, evaluation and data management for building Jewish Peoplehood provided by Research Success Technologies Ltd.
For reference material and additional information visit: http://www.researchsuccess.com/default.asp?id=273

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