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3-WAY INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: JERUSALEM-NEW YORK-MOSCOW As part of a new tri-lateral relationship between Jerusalem, New York, and now Moscow within the Partnership 2000 framework, 20 senior staff members from Jewish community centers in New York who work with immigrants from the FSU arrived in Israel earlier this week on an 11-day Jewish Agency seminar. The itinerary includes a visit to Tel Aviv's Shevach Mofet High School -- many of whose students are immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and which lost several students in the Dolphinarium attack -- the University of Haifa, the Technion, and the Israel Association of Community Centers, and meetings with new immigrants from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel in the context of the Jewish Agency's Sela pre-university program. The group, which includes professionals from the Kings Bay YM-YWHA, the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Communty House of Bensonhurst, and the Central Queens "Y," spent four days in Moscow to become acquainted with Jewish Agency youth activities and meet Russian colleagues working in Jewish youth clubs and social organizations. They were joined in Moscow by representatives of the Jerusalem Association of Community Centers. This is the first time that community workers from the US and Israel have met in Russia to learn from educational models used with youth in Russia and to coordinate cooperation among community workers in the three countries. The visit was organized by the Jewish Agency, in conjunction with the UJA-Federation of New York, and the Association of Jewish Community Centers of North America.
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