{"id":31906,"date":"2024-06-03T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31906"},"modified":"2024-06-03T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:21:11","slug":"introductory-meeting-of-the-uja-sponsored-program-the-returning-home-to-israel-project-according-to-the-tradition-of-beta-israel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/introductory-meeting-of-the-uja-sponsored-program-the-returning-home-to-israel-project-according-to-the-tradition-of-beta-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductory Meeting of the UJA Sponsored Program \u201cThe Returning Home to Israel Project According to the Tradition of Beta Israel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h3><strong>Introductory Meeting of the UJA Sponsored Program \u201cThe Returning Home to Israel Project According to the Tradition of Beta Israel\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One of the Center\u2019s Signature Projects for the 2023-2024 Academic Year was \u201cThe Returning Home to Israel Project According to the Tradition of Beta Israel\u201d whose aim is to identify and reduce tensions within the Ethiopian-Israeli community. In the framework of this program, sponsored by the New York Federation and Ono. Eight Ethiopian-Israeli Ono students, who come from diverse backgrounds (Center and Periphery; Amharim and Tigrim; Religious Zionist, Traditional Beta Israel, and ultra-Orthodox; Rabbis and Keisim; Men and Women, etc.) receive leadership training and will go out into their communities to identify the conflicts that are dividing the Ethiopian Israeli community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Under the supervision of Ono\u2019s leadership team (comprised of Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, Founder and Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry;\u00a0 Adv. Zeev Kaso, Founder and Director of Ono\u2019s Program for the Advancement of Ethiopian-Israeli Students;\u00a0 Dr. Samuel Schwartz, Director of Ono\u2019s International Progarams; and Dereve Fikadie, Program Coordinator, Dean\u2019s List MA student, and Ono graduate) the participants will choose a problem affecting their community, propose a solution and then implement it.\u00a0 At the end of the program\u2019s first year, a summary conference will be held in which the participants will present their work in the presence of representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and the Immigration Authority, Jewish Agency for Israel representatives, members of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, etc.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In this first meeting, the program managers and participants got to know each other. Then, the program managers presented the project\u2019s outline to the participants and discussion ensued. Already, in the first meeting, the outlines of the conflicts between the groups represented by the participants came to the fore. The participants related to these disagreements with the utmost mutual respect, something that augurs well with for the rest of the program.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31907 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/1st-UJA-Meeting.png\" alt=\"First Meeting of UJA Program to Minimize Conflict in the Ethiopian Israeli Community\" width=\"248\" height=\"106\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Center\u2019s Signature Projects for the 2023-2024 Academic Year was \u201cThe Returning Home to Israel Project According to the Tradition of Beta Israel\u201d whose aim is to identify and reduce tensions within the Ethiopian-Israeli community. In the framework of this program, sponsored by the New York Federation and Ono<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31907,"menu_order":196,"template":"","class_list":["post-31906","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}