Tour to Areas B and C for current and future Jewish leaders with Israeli citizenship

This trip is for current and future Jewish leaders and profes­sionals. Priority will be given to those with Israeli citi­zen­ship who are active in the fields of Jewish and Israel education.

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Start: May 17, 2012
End: May 18, 2012
Cost: 1400NIS

PeaceTalk: Encountering Others and Ourselves

PeaceTalk: Encountering Others and Ourselves: New Models for Conflict Transformation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Dear Friends and Colleagues, The New York Peace Institute cordially invites you to a presen­ta­tion by Encounter staff and alumni who will share their expe­ri­ences and insight on how they are working to trans­form the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, on May 10th, 2012. […]

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Start: May 10, 2012 6:00 pm
End: May 10, 2012 8:00 pm
Venue: Brooklyn Mediation Center
Address:
 210 Joralemon Street, Suite 618, United States
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Ramallah Budrus Leadership Seminar Trip

The Leadership Seminar is an inno­v­a­tive lead­er­ship devel­op­ment program for excep­tional rabbinical students and Jewish educators-in-training who are committed to trans­forming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Start: May 3, 2012
End: May 3, 2012
Address:
 Ramallah/Budrus, West Bank
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Encounter’s Pilot Bay Ridge Tour

Join us for what promises to be a rich and mean­ingful day of American Jewish leaders meeting with their coun­ter­parts in the American Palestinian commu­nity of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Applications are due Sunday, April 15 by 7pm.

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Start: April 29, 2012 10:00 am
End: April 29, 2012 7:00 pm
Address:
 United States
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Cost: 36

An Evening of Conversation about Teaching on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

We invite you to an inti­mate evening of conver­sa­tion about the teaching of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through histor­ical narratives.

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Start: April 4, 2012 6:00 pm
End: April 4, 2012 8:00 pm
Venue: New York University, KJCC 2nd Floor Library
Address:
 53 Washington Square South, 2nd floor, New York, NY, United States
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“Taking it Home” Banquet

The “Taking it Home” Banquet for all alumni in Israel includes dinner, schmoozing and work­shop­ping on how to continue having the diffi­cult conver­sa­tions started during Encounter trips in your home commu­ni­ties in a respectful and produc­tive way.

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Start: April 1, 2012
End: April 1, 2012
Venue: TBD
Address:
 Israel
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Encounter at Tribefest: The Case of Max

THE CASE OF MAX: DILEMMAS & NEW FRONTIERS IN AMERICAN JEWISH ENGAGEMENT WITH ISRAEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SPEAKER Rabbi Charlie Schwartz DESCRIPTION In this inter­ac­tive simu­la­tion, partic­i­pants will step into the roles of a cross-section of communal stake­holders to grapple with how to “handle” Max — a smart, provoca­tive high-school student at a Jewish […]

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Start: March 27, 2012
End: March 27, 2012
Venue: Tribefest
Address:
 United States
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Jewish Leaders Delegation to Bethlehem

This trip is for a dele­ga­tion of Jewish leaders.

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Start: March 18, 2012 7:00 am
End: March 19, 2012 4:00 pm
Address:
 Bethlehem, West Bank
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Cost: USD 600

Bethlehem Tour for Graduate Students of Jewish Education and Rabbinical Students

This trip is for for grad­uate students of Jewish educa­tion and rabbinical students

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Start: March 1, 2012
End: March 2, 2012
Address:
 Bethlehem, West Bank
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Advanced Bethlehem Leadership Seminar Trip

The Leadership Seminar is an inno­v­a­tive lead­er­ship devel­op­ment program for excep­tional rabbinical students and Jewish educators-in-training who are committed to trans­forming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Start: February 10, 2012
End: February 10, 2012
Address:
 Bethlehem, West Bank
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Our Mission

Encounter is an edu­ca­tional orga­ni­za­tion dedi­cated to strength­ening the capacity of the Jewish people to be construc­tive agents of change in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Moti­vated by the relent­less Jew­ish pur­suit of hokhma (wis­dom) and binah (under­stand­ing), Encounter cul­ti­vates informed Jew­ish lead­er­ship on the Israeli-Palestinian con­flict by bring­ing…

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