2016 Summer Half-Day Tours
Promoting Tolerance and Fighting Extremism
Half-Day Tour of Jerusalem
Registration is closed. Please join us next year.
8:30 AM: Gather at NIF offices in Jerusalem.
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: A City Torn By Diversity: Breakfast conversation with Prof. Menahem Lorberbaum, NIF board member, Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and founding member of the Shalom Hartman Institute.
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Combatting Hatred at the Grassroots: Tour of sites that were a target of ‘Price Tag’ (Tag Mechir) hate attacks and conversation Dr. Gadi Gvaryahu, Chairman of Tag Meir – the largest Israeli grassroots organization that works against hate crimes and religious racism in Israel.
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Judaism as a Tool for Promoting Tolerance: Limmud over Lunch with the leaders of KIAH (Kol Israel Haverim. Also known as Alliance Israel Universelle) - an established religious organization that seeks to promote a tolerant Judaism and social responsibility through education, while bridging through the divisions of Israeli society.
COST: $35
Light breakfast & lunch included