HIGHLIGHTS ‘21-22

Vanina Meyer

Vanina Meyer worked with ARIEL, the Geneva Union of Jewish Students, where she worked to foster the organization’s sustainability and enhance their partnerships to ensure their inclusion within the Geneva and Swiss Jewish communities. With the help of the WJC Geneva offce, she and the staff at ARIEL had the opportunity to meet with the Jewish community in Geneva, where they created a partnership and organized an event at CIG for the frst time. Due to this partnership, other Jewish organizations were encouraged to partner with ARIEL, including Association Suisse Israel and Keren Hayessod. As a result, ARIEL is now the reference for all Jewish student leaders in Geneva and is invited to high-level events and asked to participate, moderate, and facilitate sessions.

Abel Hernandez Eskenazi

Eskenazi developed a mobile application for the Cuban Jewish community to use as an educational tool for their Sunday school. The app is published on the Cuban Android app store and currently has around 400 downloads, about 4xs the total of Jewish students attending Hebrew school. Abel is currently working on positioning his app to be displayed as the only result associated with the keyword “Jew” on the Cuban Android store. This app is the frst of Jewish-related content in Cuba’s app store. Abel published the app on Google Play to share his vision with the world.

Micah Ross

Daniel Lazer And Melis Yasat

Launching the Nordic Youth Seminar, Ysat and Lazer brought together young Jews from the Nordic countries to discuss diplomacy, antisemitism, the Middle East, and Jewish life in the Nordics. Daniel and Melis built the seminar around fve main pillars: Jewish advocacy, antisemitism, Israel-Palestine/Middle East relations, social media, Judaism, and the Nordic countries. The seminar, which was intended for individuals between 18 and 30 years old, helped create a sense of unity among the Nordic Jewish youth. In addition, the seminar paved the way for future engagement with the World Jewish Congress, as the pair worked closely with WJC Representative in the Nordics and Religious Freedom Task Force Coordinator Petra Kahn Nord on this project.

Ross created the Holocaust Learning Fellowship, a fellowship designed to educate Jewish, Christian, and Muslim students about the Holocaust and dangers of antisemitism and bigotry. Each session lasted about two hours and ran once weekly for fve weeks. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, she hosted a Zoom event with Holocaust survivor Anita Magnus Frank. On Yom HaShoah, she hosted morning and evening events commemorating the Holocaust. Her morning event featured remarks from the Rabbinic leadership of Hillel, Meor, and Chabad, and personal refections from descendants of Holocaust survivors. At the evening event, Micah created a rock garden at the campus Hillel, where students painted rocks with the names of those who perished in the Holocaust.

Adina Sieff

Through the Malka Ella Fertility Fund organization, Sieff promoted the importance of genetic testing before entering a relationship. In addition, Adina hosted a webinar with the Fund, featuring a couple who shared their journey after testing positive for a genetic condition.