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Euroasian Jewish News
Meetings of the Kesher Project
22.03.2009
The international organization of Jewish women "Project Kesher," a part of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) has conducted a number of meetings and events.
On 12-15 March in Moscow, the seminar training of the Kesher Project within the framework of the project "Building a Civil Society Through Women’s Movements." The project is being realized in a partnership with the Coalition Against Trafficking in Woman, with the financial support of the representatives of the Eurocomission is Russia.
The aim of the seminar was the creation of a team of leaders for realizing this project at the local level. Among those taking part in the preparation and conduction of the seminar were: the worker team of the program "Woman’s Place in Society" of the Kesher Project (Tatyana Molodtseva, Marina Konstantinova, and Nadeshda Visnapu); the Director of the Kesher Project in the CIS Svetlana Yakimenko; and the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Woman Gunilla Ekberg.
On the 16th of March, in the Jewish Cultural Center “Shalom” in the city of Vladikavkaz, on the initative of the women’s group of Project Kesher, there was a meeting of the youth of the national communities of Northern Ossetia.
The topic of the meeting was the presentation of the project "Not in Our City." The presentation was devoted to international tolerance as a basis for building a democratic society. Members of very varied national communities coexisting on the territory of the Northern Caucasus region all took part in the meetings: Germans, Greeks, Russians, Jews, Finns. The participants of the discussion came to the conclusion that the creation of a democratic society is impossible without education in tolerance, and discussed the problems of mixed marriages.
From the 18th of March to the 6th of April, Project Kesher is conducting the 15th World Women's Seder. Two weeks prior to the Pesach holiday, the Women's Seder will unite the Jewish women of Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.
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