Important note regarding the copying of programmes

Aims / Objectives :
Aim

• To show the importance of Diaspora Jews in Liberal Judaism
• Diaspora Jews have as much of a right to be considered a Jew

Trigger :
Trigger

Game: A strong wind blows….
Chanichim sit in a circle, 1 person comes to the middle and says a statement about themselves using the phrase a strong win blows [on anyone wearing pink socks] the people who this statement effects get blown into a corner of the room. This continues until there are many groups all around the room and no one left in the middle. Hopefully there will be many groups with a different amount of people in each.
Explain that the central circle was the land of Cannon and that they have now become part of the Diaspora by scattering out of the land of Israel to other parts of the world.

Main part of the programme :
Method

Where chanichim have blown to are now their groups.
The groups are named by the largeness and in significance to Jewish population in different cities:
1. Tel Aviv - Israel - 2,560,000.
2. New York - U.S. - 1,970,000.
3. Haifa - Israel - 655,000.
4. Los Angeles - U.S. - 621,000.
5. Jerusalem - Israel - 570,000.
6. Miami - U.S. - 514,000.
7. Paris - France - 310,000.
Israeli teams are put on one side of the room and Diaspora teams on the other.
Diaspora split into UK, USA & Ethiopia

Teams are told they have to build a suspension bridge.

Diaspora jews are given cardboard and glue.
Israeli Jews are given string and scissors.

They will have to work out that they need to work together to build the bridge.
During this time Madrichim will use subliminal messaging to envoke a conversation.

UK group being given information on the boycott of Israel.
USA group talk about the intergration of jewish culture, bagels have become a stapel part of new york culture. The majority of Jews in America are Reform (our Liberal) - There are approximately 110,000 North American immigrants in Israel. There has been a steady flow of olim from North America since Israel’s inception in 1948. Record numbers arrived in the late 1960’s after the Six-Day War, and the 1970’s. Many immigrants began arriving in Israel after the intifada, with a total of 3,052 arriving in 2005-the highest number since 1983.
Unlike other olim, North Americans tend to immigrate to Israel more for religious, ideological and political purposes, and not financial ones; many of them are relatively well off to begin with.

Ethiopia group to talk about the Ethiopian immigration to Israel, Israels connection to Ethiopians. - The massive airlift known as Operation Moses began to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel on November 18, 1985 and ended on January 5. During those six weeks, some 6,500-8,000 Ethiopian Jews were flown from Sudan to Israel. An estimated 2,000-4,000 Jews died en route to Sudan or in Sudanese refugee camps.
In 1991, Operation Solomon was launched to rescue the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia. In one day, May 24, 34 aircraft landed at Addis Ababa and brought 14,325 Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.
Since that time, Ethiopian Jews have continued to immigrate to Israel bringing the number of Ethiopian-Israelis today to over 100,000

Conclusion :
Questions to raise:
What is the relationship with Israel?
How is the relationship strengthened through this?

Resources:
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Notes:
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