PROGRAM

Dear Friends,
The European Association of Jewish Community Centers - an historic first conference!
We welcome you to the 1st European Conference of Jewish Community Centers - a three-day conference of Senior Lay
Leaders, Executive Directors of JCCs and directors of programs (youth, cultural arts, adults, children etc.) in order to
continue implementing our vision and strengthening our network. Initiated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee AJJDC, the European Association of Jewish Community Centers EAJCC, the European Council of Jewish
Communities ECJC, the Fonds Social Juif Unifi FSJU and the World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers
WCJCC, the conference will focus on:
NEW MODELS OF JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS
IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ADDRESSING CHANGING NEEDS
In plenary sessions, workshops and site visits participants from all over Europe, Israel and the rest of the Jewish World will
share their expertise and experiences.
Some of the main issues to be discussed are:
European Jews in Todays World: An Approach to the Current Context
Judaism and our Times: Old Traditions, New Forms
Connecting Jews via our JCCs
Workshops will cover a wide variety of topics from Family Jewish Education, Cultural Arts, Adult Education and Marketing
to Jewish Education in the JCC, Lay Leadership Development, Cyber JCCs, Regional Collaborations and more.
Enjoying what Paris has to offer, the Conference will open at the Mayor'
s office and will take place at the JCC of Paris,
enabling visitors to see first hand the wide variety of programs taking place in the Jewish Community Center of Paris.
Jo Zrihen
President
European Association of Jewish Community Centers
David de Rothschild, President FSJU, Paris
Cobi Benatoff, President ECJC, Milan
Alberto Senderey, Director AJJDC Europe, Paris
Jerry Spitzer, President, WCJCC, New York

1st Conference of Jewish Community Centers in Europe

May 28 30, 2003

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lucien Khalfa, FSJU Paris
Raphy Marciano, JCC Paris
Gabriel Taus, ECJC Zurich
Mario Izcovich, AJJDC Barcelona
Smadar Bar-Akiva, WCJCC Jerusalem
Sara Bogen, AJDC Jerusalem
STEERING COMMITTEE
Robert Djerassi, AJJDC Sofia
Lili Furman, AJJDC Germany
Victoria Gubatova, JCC Riga
Erica Mirochnik, AJJDC Paris
Margarita Drozdinskaya, AJCC-FSU Moscow
Stefan Szajak, JC Frankfurt
Neil Taylor, Jewish Care London
Ambra Tedeschi, Il Pitigliani JCC Rome
Myra Whiskar, Jewish Care London
Beni Witztum, ICZ Zurich
Martine Yana, JCC Marseille
Jean Charles Zerbib, FSJU Jerusalem
Mirjam Zomersztajn, CCJL Brussels

Paris, France

PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 28

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (JCC)

09:00 Registration at JCC (until 16:00)

GROUND FLOOR
2nd FLOOR

14:00 EAJCC Board Meeting

16:30 Departure from JCC and hotels to the reception at Hotel de Ville

17:30 Festive Reception at Htel de Ville, the Mayor's office

Bertrand Delanoe, Mayor of Paris
Pierre Schapira, Deputy at Mayor'
s office in charge of International Relations and French-Speaking
Communities
GREETINGS
Jo Zrihen, Chair European Association of JCCs & Vice-President Fonds Social Juif Unifi
Jerry Spitzer, President WCJCC
19:00 Departure to JCC from Htel de Ville

19:30 PLENARY I

HALL B

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS: RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF JEWS IN TIMES OF CHANGE

Opening Address:
Presenter:
Respondents:
GALA DINNER

Alberto Senderey, Director AJJDC Europe

Allan Finkelstein, President JCC Association North America
David Saada, Director General FSJU
Margarita Drozdinskaya, President AJCC-FSU

HALL B

Thursday, May 29

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (JCC)

09:00 PLENARY II

EUROPEAN JEWS IN TODAYS WORLD, AN APPROACH TO THE CURRENT CONTEXT

HALL A

Chairpersons: Lucien Montel, Marseille, E. Fleg JCC, Marseille

Speakers:
Raphal Drai, Writer, Philosopher
Frdric Encel, Geopolitics PHD
Clment Weil-Reynal, Journalist at France 3, Chair Jewish Journalists Assoc.
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 WORKSHOP A (relating to Plenaries I and II)
Workshop 1- Working with Families - New Models, New Approaches
Chair:
Erica Mirochnik, Paris
Speakers:
Junona Berznitski, Vilnius
Inessa Nossenko, Zoporozhye
Anna Smolina, Kazan

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 2- Marketing to Changing Populations: How do we Target our Clients?

Chair:
Sara Bogen, Jerusalem
Speakers:
Tova Pinto, Budapest
Miriam Andersson, Stockholm
Myra Whiskar, Essex

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 3- A place for the Adults - The Lost Tribe

Chair:
Gabriel Taus, Zurich
Speakers:
Robert Djerassi, Sofia
Silvia Krimerman, Aachen
Victoria Gouvatova, Riga

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 4- Can the JCC Compete with the Mall? - Programs for Youth
Chair:
Beni Witztum, Zurich
Speakers:
Mikael Ben David, Strasbourg
Reshef Peleg, Tel Aviv
Sandra Segal, Bucharest
Alexander Sokolovsky, Dnepropetrovsk
Astrid Pouleur, Marseille

3rd FLOOR

Workshop 5- Strategy on Human Resources: Training and Development

Chair:
Lili Furman, Friburg
Speakers:
Thomas Bab, Stockholm
Andrs Spokoiny, Paris
Esmond Rosen, Liverpool

3rd FLOOR

13:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 EXHIBITION

HALL B
Program Fair: JCCs Present their Successful Programs

HALL B

Continued Thursday, May 29

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (JCC)

14:30 Session 1
2nd FLOOR
Peter Gyori, Executive Director of Bejt Praha, Prague
Gabi Taus, Executive Director of ECJC, Zurich
Hatzagah ( Performance - in Hebrew ) is a program on stage at the theatre or any appropriate concert
hall, with various Art performances, which include music (jazz, folk, rock, reggae, classical), spoken
word, dancing, photo, picture exhibitions and other kinds of art in order to help to bring the largest
possible amount of both unaffiliated and already involved Jews from various Jewish communities and
organization together.
14:30 Session 2
2nd FLOOR
Armand Laufer, Director MBA in Jewish Leadership (Israel)
Fundraising Fundamentals: How to Succeed at Grant-Getting from Foundations & Corporations,
Funding your events Through Gifts and Fees
How to Organize Campaigns
Donor Cultivation
16:30 PLENARY III

JUDAISM AND OUR TIMES: OLD TRADITIONS, NEW FORMS

Chair:
Speakers:

HALL A

Jeremy Oppenheim, chief Executive Jewish Care, London

Clive A.Lawton, Executive Director of Limmud, Chair of Tzedek , London
Iosif Akselrud, Hillel Regional Director for Ukraine, Belorrusia and Moldova
Gilles Bernheim, Chief Rabbi at Victoire Synagogue, Writer, Paris

17:30 WORKSHOP B
Workshop 1- JCCs Responding to Current Events and Antisemitism
Speakers:
Igor Dadakarov, Ulyanoovsk
Michle Hassoun, Marseille

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 2- Jewish Education vs. Socializing Jews in the JCC

Chair:
Myra Whiskar, Essex
Speakers:
Ambra Tedeschi, Rome
Lili Furman, Friburg
Charles Ohnona, Lyon

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 3- Jewish Culture: Keeping Tradition or Creating New Paradigms

Chair:
Ami Bergman, Jerusalem
Speakers:
Raphy Marciano, Paris
Boris Rubinstein, Moscow

2nd FLOOR

WORKSHOP C
Workshop 1- Alef-Bet: Jewish Literacy
Chair:
Lucien Khalfa, Paris
Workshop 2 The Israel Experience - Discovering Judaism First Hand
Chair:
Jean Charles Zerbib, Jerusalem
Speakers:
Eva Halachmi, Jerusalem
Sabine Buonomo, Montpellier
19:30 FESTIVE DINNER (Yom Yerushalayim)
Conference Tour: Paris by Night

3rd FLOOR
3rd FLOOR

HALL B

Friday, May 30

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (JCC)

09:00 WORKSHOP D
Workshop 1- Linking Jews via our JCCs Cyber JCCs
Chair:
Valerie Davis, Paris
Speakers:
Mircea Cernow, Budapest
Sandrine Bogdanovic, Marseille

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 2- Reaching Out: Innovative Ideas

Chair:
Andrs Spokoiny, Paris
Speakers:
Xavier Nataf, Marseille
Miklos Fischer, Budapest
Elijah Jacob, Bombay

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 3- Klal Israel - Connecting JCCs Worldwide

Chair:
Smadar Bar-Akiva, Jerusalem
Speakers:
Hillel Schmid, Jerusalem
Moti Ben Dor, Tel Aviv
Robert Djerassi, Sofia
Jerry Spitzer, New York

2nd FLOOR

Workshop 4- The JCC and the City: Can they Co-Exist?

Chair :
Raphy Marciano, Paris
Speakers:
Martine Yana, Marseille
Peter Gyori, Prague
Charles Elbaz, Montpellier

3rd FLOOR

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 CONCLUDING PLENARY
A

CONNECTING JEWS VIA OUR JCCS

Chair:
Speakers:

HALL

Mario Izcovich, Director Pan European Programs, AJJDC, Barcelona

Smadar Bar-Akiva, WCJCC Executive Director, Jerusalem
Lucien Khalfa, FSJU Director of Cultural and Youth Department, Paris
Gabriel Taus, ECJC Executive Director, Zurich

The conference accepting declarations regarding: the Future of EAJCC

12:30 Conference Concludes
13:30 BUFFET LUNCH

HALL B

14:00 WCJCC Board Meeting (by invitation)

HALL A

GENERAL INFORMATION
CONFERENCE LOCATIONS
Centre Communautaire de Paris (JCC)
119 Rue La Fayette
75005 Paris
Telephone: 33 1 53 20 52 52
Fax:
33 1 53 20 52 50
LANGUAGE
The Conference sessions will be translated into English and French. All correspondence will be in English.
HOSPITALITY DESK
For your convenience, our hospitality desk will operate at the Centre Communautaire de Paris (JCC) as follows:
Wednesday May 28
09:00 - 16:00
Thursday, May 29
08:00 - 18:00
Friday, May 30
08:00 - 13:00
BADGE
Please note that your personal badge and/or invitation will serve as your admission ticket to sessions, coffee breaks,
luncheons and dinners.
KASHRUT
All meals during the conference are kosher, under the supervision of the Chief Rabbi of France.
ATTIRE
Casual-formal for social events.
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
c/o Mittelpunkt GmbH
34 Isartal St. 80469 Munich, GERMANY
Tel: + 49 89 444 54 353/4 Fax: + 49 89 444 54355 Email: info@mittelpunkt.biz
82 Menachem Begin Rd. 67138 Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
www.mittelpunkt.biz
Tel: + 972 3 511 6488 / 89 Fax: + 972 3 511 6480 Email: cong@mittelpunkt.biz

WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Annie Partouche
Monique Korolnyk
Nily Schorr
Ann Levine
Daniel Bijaoui
Valerie Davis Allouche
Stefan Oskar