BINA's new Haifa Yeshiva is now open!

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In this edition:
1)New Haifa Secular Yeshiva
2)#GivingTuesday 2018
3)BINA International Programs
4)Tikkun Olam 2019 is Open!
5)BINA Visitors
6)BINA@Limmud Stockholm
7)Staff Spotlight

New Haifa Secular Yeshiva

The BINA Secular Yeshiva network is growing! BINA is excited to announce the official launch of the fourth Secular Yeshiva - this time in the northern city of Haifa. The Haifa branch joins its sisters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva. Nine young adults (18-19 years old) have joined the first Haifa “Shnat Sherut” (service-learning year) cohort and have begun a year long program of “Limud & Maase” (Study and Action) in the Bat Galim neighborhood. Alongside their work in the local community, the group is responsible for organizing Jewish pluralistic holiday events and Kabbalat Shabbat activities for the residents of the neighborhood and for the wider Haifa population, together with the Boston-Haifa Partnership. The Haifa Secular Yeshiva, currently based out of the Bat Galim community center, is proudly funded by UJA-Federation of New York and supported by the Posen Foundation.
This week, the extended BINA team from all over Israel traveled to Haifa to visit the new Secular Yeshiva and its staff and wish them success.

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#GivingTuesday 2018 - Save the Date!

This year’s campaign will focus on BINA’s efforts to work together - Israeli and International Jews - to promote a pluralistic, inclusive Judaism that “seeks peace and pursues justice”. Support BINA on #GivingTuesday (Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018) and help us build an Israel we can all be proud of. Double your impact - every dollar donated on #GivingTuesday will be MATCHED thanks to a generous private donor

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BINA International News

Live, Learn, Intern and Volunteer in Tel Aviv!

Do YOU want to change the world?
Do you know someone who wants to change the world?
Applications are NOW OPEN for the Spring 2019 cohort of Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa - an award-winning 5-month fellowship for Jewish young adults aged 20-30 from around the world. Participants live with Israeli peers, intern and volunteer in leading Israeli social change organizations, explore Israel and gain life-changing professional and personal skills!
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Tikkun Olam in Tel Aviv-Jaffa is a proud partnership of BINA and The Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism.
Click here to learn about BINA's other immersive international programs in Israel - such as BINA Gap Year in Tel Aviv (ages 18-20) and BINA Masa Israel Teaching Fellows (ages 20-35).

BINA International Participants Discover Diverse Israeli Cultures!

In honor of the Ethiopian Jewish “Sigd” holiday, BINA’s international participants spent the day in Gedera with the “Chaverim B’Teva” organization learning more about the Ethiopian community in Israel. They heard Aliyah stories, participated in a clay making workshop, and finished with a traditional coffee ceremony.
Other participants travelled down South for a tour of Bedouin communities with The Forum for Coexistence in the Negev. They spoke to municipal representatives of the different communities to hear about Bedouin life and social change happening today.

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Look who came to Visit!

A Jew, a Christian and a Muslim walked into a Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv... and had a fascinating discussion about what it means for people of different faiths and of no traditional faith to work together for social change. Thanks to the Jewish Federation of Reading, Pennsylvania and their group of interfaith leaders for visiting!

Lots of different groups came to visit and learn with BINA this month, including:

JCPA Leadership Mission
AIPAC Senate Club
Young Judaea Year Course
Reading Pennsylvania Interfaith Leaders
Temple Israel of Minneapolis
Temple Kol Ami of White Plains
Pfarrer Gerhold Youth
And more!

Want to book a visit or workshop with BINA? Contact us today or click here to learn more!

BINA at Limmud Stockholm | November 18-19

Join BINA at Limmud Stockholm - the largest gathering of Jewish learning in Sweden! BINA educator Elliot Glassenberg will be leading several sessions about Judaism, social justice and democracy in Israel. For more info click here.
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Staff Spotlight

Meet Nofar Simpson, Director of the Haifa Secular Yeshiva

Nofar was born and raised in Hod Hasharon. She served in the IDF as a soldier-teacher in disadvantaged communities. She holds a degree in education and teaching from the Institute for Democratic Education. Nofar established "Girl Talk" encouraging egalitarian gender discourse in educational frameworks. After 3 years of running the

project, she joined BINA. As the Director of the Secular Yeshiva in Haifa, she runs, with a staff of five, pluralistic Jewish community programs and a Jewish service-learning track (Shnat Sherut) for young adults in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa. She also coordinates the "Adraba" events program in cooperation with the Haifa-Boston Connection.
Nofar lives in Haifa with her husband and 2 small children and in her spare time teaches yoga and loves to sail around the world.

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