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This week Shalom Corps introduces UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Activist Journalist Esther Oziel. She currently oversees the leadership and volunteer programs targeted for high school students and young professionals and has been in this role for the past year and a half. In addition to this role she also serves as social media manager […]
Shalom Corps in partnership with NYU Bronfman had the pleasure of rewarding 39 professionals from 25 different organizations and 16 different countries their certificate of completion for their participation in the Activist Journalism Studies Course. This course is one of the first of its kind made for, tailored to and offered exclusively for volunteers and […]
This week, our Organization Stories Series focuses on another one of our partner organizations participating in our Activist Journalism course with NYU Bronfman: Momentum Unlimited. Our Activist Journalist Alums, Ilene Rosen and Roni Ezra Friedman bring you an inside look into Momentum’s foundation and evolution. Momentum Unlimited is an organization focusing on empowering woman, creating […]
The Organization Stories Series brings to you this week, CultivAid. CultivAid is an Israeli non-profit organization that focuses on improving the agricultural aspect of vulnerable communities. Our Activist Journalists from CultivAid include, Tal Aboulafia, David Bernsthein and Tomer Malchi. Here is an exclusive look into one of CultivAid’s final projects, produced and made by Tal […]
During our Shalom Corps Activist Journalism Course with NYU Bronfman, participants learned how to get the “what, where, when and how of a good item” taught to the class by Journalist Eve Fairbanks. This week Shalom Corps is proud to introduce NCSY’s Frayda Glucksman and her final course project about NCSY! During her video one […]
Our Shalom Corps and NYU Activist Journalist Alumnus are back at it again, this time bringing to you Maccabi St. Petersburg’s, Vera Rybakova and Svetlana Shuvalova! With Vera and Svetlana’s new found video making skills and framing narrative techniques learned throughout our course, they successfully showcase Maccabi St. Petersburg from within. What makes Maccabi St. […]
Our Organization Stories Series continues with JCC Chicago‘s Natalie Kolling and Kim Preston. As part of our Activist Journalism course with NYU they had the opportunity to sharpen and gather skills to help them in their creation of professional content for their organization. In their own words they, “found this class so interesting. It was […]
This month Shalom Corps and NYU Bronfman’s Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship completed its first Activist Journalism course with participants from our wonderful partner organizations. Shalom Corps now has freshly skilled Activist Journalists within our partner organizations and we can’t wait to show off their new skills. How will we be showing off their skills? […]
Next, allow us to introduce you to one of our final partners in our local initiative – @JewishATL! • For more than a century, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta has been one of the main philanthropic bodies of the Atlanta Jewish community. The Federation has evolved from being primarily a fundraising organization to the convener […]
For today, we’ll be introducing you all to a youth movement that has held strong since 1923 – @betaraustralia and Betar Italy! • The Betar Movement is one of the oldest remaining Zionist youth movements, started by Ze’ev Jabotinsky in Riga, Latvia, 1923. The Movement has firm beliefs in building an exemplary society in Israel […]
Next up, we have an organization doing other amazing good deeds in Canada – @tfsmtl • The Family Store is a Montreal-based subsidized grocery warehouse serving hundreds of families with nutritional and household products. A collaborative project of the Chai Center and Montreal Torah Center, The Family Store uses volunteers and public donations to help […]
Today, meet Chabad Guatemala. • Chabad affiliated organizations and institutions number in the thousands. Chabad is a Hasidic movement, a branch of Orthodox Judaism. The organizations and institutions associated with the movement provide social, educational, and religious services to Jews around the globe. This branch, Chabad Guatemala, is a nonprofit organization that exists in the […]
We start-off this week by introducing you to Hillel International. Hillel is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, working with thousands of college students globally. Hillel is represented at more than 550 colleges and communities throughout North America and globally, including 30 communities in the former Soviet Union, nine in Israel, and five […]
Next up, we’re introducing another one of our Local Initiative partners – @nelech.leoro! Le’Oro Nelech is a volunteering center, working on instilling and strengthening values of mutual responsibility in Israeli Society. Operating in hundreds of state and state religious highschools, along with other educational systems, Le’Oro Nelech aims to spread the Jewish value of Hesed […]
Today we would like to introduce you to Hashomer Hatzair. Hashomer Hatzair is the oldest surviving zionist youth movement, operating internationally with over 7,000 members overseas from Israel, Canada, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, France and Italy. The branches in Europe, France and Italy, will be joining Shalom Corps’ Local Initiative in 2021, […]
We’re starting off the new month by introducing you to @ourbigkitchen! • A community-run industrial kitchen, Our Big Kitchen is a volunteer organization helping prepare and distribute fresh meals to over 80,000 disadvantaged Australians across Sydney. OBK believes in the power of giving through doing good to others, and believes that making food is a […]
