Tell Us In 650 Words Or Less “Why I Love Israel and the.

Attention High School Seniors: Essay Contest HOW CAN JEWISH VALUES help create a future FREE OF DOMESTIC ABUSE? In your essay please be specific about changes that would help play a role in eliminating domestic abuse in the Jewish, and broader, community. Innovative, yet realistic, ideas about reducing abuse in interpersonal relationships.

The essay contest bears the name of the late Ida Kramer, former Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and a long time Holocaust educator. The visual arts contest bears the names of the late Meyer and Frances Shnurman from Iowa who were both Holocaust survivors of the Nazi extermination camps.

Introduction The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most controversial conflicts in modern history. The expansion of Israel since 1947 is seen as the beginning of the conflict, although its origins go back to the end of the 19th century, when Jewish immigration to Palestine began to increase.

Essay entries (Essay and Entry Form) may be mailed to the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, 2715 30th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201, or submitted electronically as an email attachment to aross.

The Forward’s youth writing contest seeks essays, prose and poetry of 1,000 words or less on the topic “What It Means To Be Free.” The contest is open to all middle and high school students.

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The Better2Write essay contest capped off the two year Better Together program, funded by a prominent national foundation, which brings together Jewish teens and seniors for learning, sharing, and relationship building in synagogues, day schools and senior centers.

Call for Entries from 10th, 11th, and 12th Graders: Max “Maggie” Levine Essay Contest for Alexander Muss High School in Israel Scholarship The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is pleased to announce the Annual Maggie.

Traditions and Customs of The Jewish Culture Essay;. The Jewish religion makes Israel’s culture in 722 B.C. - 540 B.C. distinctive. Israel’s religion is important in the fact that it started the Catholic culture. Though most Christians do not do the same things the Jews did back then, the bases for their beliefs and ideas came from the.

Israel has won the contest four times: in 1978, 1979, 1988, and 2018. The competition in 1980 fell on Yom HaZikaron, and Israel declined to participate. This was the only time in the contest’s history that the winner sat out the following year. Israel holds the record for the most entries in the contest without ever coming in last place.

According to the Bible, Israel is the name given by God to Jacob. The modern country of Israel includes two distinct nationalities, the Palestinian and the Jewish. Each nationality is inextricable from its religious identity. The Palestinians are Arabs whose traditions are founded in Muslim culture; the Jews define their culture in large.

Two Ezra Academy students honored for essays.. annual Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Essay Contest.. young people to treasure their Jewish heritage, reflect on Jewish values, and.