On January 22, Kiev's Galytsian synagogue Beit Ya'akov hosted the first lecture of the experimental club for talented teenagers, organized by the educational center Midrasha Zionit. This project, intended for high schoolers, will have lectures talking about different branches of contemporary science, and why it is interesting to be a scientist, rather than boring. Scientists and scholars of various specializations will be explaining why their science is important to these young people, and some unusual scholars – for example, one of the expected meetings is with a Nobel prize winner from Israel – will tell the high schoolers about the way they see science. As the scholarly interests of many involve Jewish Studies, the youth will also be able to see how today's scholarship views Jewry.

The project was opened by the rabbi of the Galitskaya synagogue Pinchas Rosenfeld, who spoke about the aims of the club and the form its lectures will be taken.

The first meeting was dedicated to ethnography – a science that deals with every ethnicity and humanity in its entirety. The lecturer was Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Council member, Vyacheslav Likhachev, who spoke on what is ethnography, how this branch of research is interesting and important, and which topics have the most potential in Jewish ethnography.