Youth&Education

Specifically, the SIG runs summer and winter holiday camps and organises social events throughout the year aimed particularly at children and adolescents who are not part of a Jewish youth organisation in the cities. This gives them the opportunity to experience traditional Jewish values in an informal setting and make new friends.

An enabling and coordinating role in education

In the field of Jewish education, the SIG takes on an enabling and coordinating role. Thus, it furthers the professionalisation of religious education by sourcing and developing modern, attractive teaching materials and organises continuing training days fot the religious education staff. Adolescents are given the opportunity to deal with and reflect on different approaches to Jewish content in the context of leadership seminars.

The SIG sees education work and the fight against anti-Semitism and intolerance as important tasks. The ‘LIKRAT’ dialogue project for young people, which is linked with the leadership seminars, is intended to foster intercultural learning about Judaism and serves to prevent against anti-Semitism.