Sunday 27 December
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Opening Ceremony
WUJS Congress 47
Inside Your Home & Outside The Box
Welcome to the opening ceremony. Listen to the speeches of leaders from Jewish organizations all across the globe. Get a sense of why your voice matters, and why you should be an advocate of the values you care about and how to bring change to the table.
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Opening Ceremony
Mr. Hillel Neuer
UN Watch Executive Director,
Geneva, Switzerland
International lawyer, diplomat, writer and activist. In 2018, McGill University awarded Mr. Neuer with an honorary doctorate for his work to advance human rights, and for being “a voice for those without one.” The Tribune de Genève described him as a human rights activist who is “feared and dreaded” by the world’s dictatorships.
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Opening Ceremony
H.E. Omer Yankelevitch
State of Israel Minister of Diaspora Affairs,
Member of the Knesset
A lawyer and community organizer, Minister Yankelevitch worked as a teacher and mediator. Yankelevitch is the founding director of the "Just Begun" Foundation, a groundbreaking NGO that empowers minority communities from within Israel to integrate further into Israeli society .
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Opening Ceremony
Isaac Herzog
Chairman of the executive of
the Jewish Agency,
"Particularly now, as students across the world struggle with the implications and difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, WUJS is connecting Jewish students and students unions across the world and providing them with education, connectivity and the tools to become the leaders of today and tomorrow."
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Opening Ceremony
World Jewish Students
WJC, EUJS, FEJJLA, AUJS, SAUJS, NUIS
When was the last time you had the opportunity to listen to student leaders from AustralAsia, Europe, North & South America, Africa and Israel? Get ready for an intense discovery of what it means to be a Jewish student ( and an activist ) all across the globe.
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Open Track
Online ≠ Alone
Brain Dates & Networking
Detail Coming Soon.
Monday 28 December
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Open Track
The New Middle East
Jason Isaacson, Rabbi Yehouda Sarna,
Ze'ev Levie, Esther Offenberg
The Abraham Accords set an unprecedented change in the Middle East. With experts from Israel, the UAE and the US, we will talk about the behind the scenes, and the future of Israel & the Arab countries relations and peace process.
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Open Track
Who Is Afraid Of Zionism?
Dr. Einat Wilf
Benjamin Guttmann
"While as Jews we might have a vague sense of belonging to a Jewish people that exists around the world, there is little that compares with the experience of actually seeing Jews from around the world sharing your sense of commitment and belonging”.
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Open Track
Never Again Right Now
Speaker Announced Soon
Details coming soon.
AWB
Open Track
LGBTQ Inclusivity 101
Nate Shalev
This interactive session will provide a foundation to understand LGBTQ communities. Discuss the basics of gender and sexuality highlighting key terms and resources. Focus on LGBTQ activism and what it means to fight for equality in Israel and the diaspora.
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Open Track
Fight For Your Story
Rudy Rochman, Caterina Cognini
Jewish empowerment, narrative, identity & activism.
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Open Track
From LATAM To Spain
Andres Tassara, Nicole Moscovich, Bernardo Flikier, Tanay Nathan, Dina Mouyal
Details coming soon.
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Leaders Track
Break The Ice
Jonathan Braun
Quarantine? 2 Meters of distance? Wear a mask? Over 2020, the coolest way to meet new people is online. Connect with student leaders and activists from across the globe and open up for an exciting and diverse congress.
YAD
Leaders Track
Modern Collective Memory
Dilman
Noam Gitin, Yoni Berrous, Hailey Sharon
Examine concepts of Holocaust remem-berance, as well as challenges facing the representation of Holocaust in the 21st century. Come to challenge your understanding of commemoration and learn how to successfully lead your community in Holocaust education.
Tuesday 29 December
AJC
Open Track
Fake News
Avital Leibovich, Tal Heinrich, Inbal Orpaz,
Ruben Gerzikow
In recent years, from the amount of media outlets and the rise of social media networks, a new phenomenon has emerged - Fake News. The information that appears is not always accurate, and we, need to know how to consume our news.
JAFI
Open Track
Jewish Gender Ceiling
Yochi Rappeport, Rabbi Muhlstein, Dovi
Wieder, Rabba Elad-Appelbaum, Dana Winter
This panel will give insight to the speaker’s journey which brought them to where they are today, to their views on gender equality in Judaism and more. The discussion will cover a variety of topics which are relevant to Jewish activists of the 21st century.
YAD
Open Track
"My Last Words"
Noam Gitin, Yoni Berrous, Hailey Sharon
Dilman
In a world of Facebook, Instagram, and fake news, we ask how relevant traditional and archival educational tools of the Holocaust are. We will examine last letters of Holocaust victims, to discuss methods of Holocaust education for students today.
WZO
Open Track
Why Hebrew?
Hilla Drechler
Does the Hebrew language still matter in the global world we are living in? What is the role of Modern Hebrew vs. Prayer's Hebrew? And is it, or could it be, a living bridge between Israel and the Jewish communities around the world?
SHATIL
Open Track
10 Rules of Policy Change
Michal Sella
Changing policy in any arena requires its understanding, mapping and focused work. We will talk about what policy change is and how to implement it. Who are the relevant players and how to identify the opportunity to change when we are outside the official system.
JSUD
Open Track
Intercultural Alliances
Laura Cazés, Avital Grinberg, David Fiorentini, Özge Erdoğan, Musli Alievski
Why do we need to take it beyond the dialogue?
AJC
Leaders Track
Global Jewish Advocacy
David Harris
A private discussion with the American Jewish Committee CEO, David Harris around leadership, global activism and empowerment of the youth.
BBI
Leaders Track
Online Hate / Antisemitism
Julia Mozer, Dr. Andre Oboler, Ilan Shelby
An interactive session will be a moderated Q&A which will provide the opportunity to put questions to our panelists. The panel will include representatives from civil society dealing with hate in the online sphere, taking a look at the various national contexts represented.
Wednesday 30 December
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Open Track
Jewish Leadership Values
Rabbi Benny Lau
Kayla Ginsberg
Israeli rabbi, community leader, activist, author, and public speaker who lives in Jerusalem. He is also the head of the "Human Rights and Judaism in Action Project" at the Israel Democracy Institute.
BHT
Open Track
Jewish Lens : Photography
Yael Rosen
How do you and others see Jewish life around the globe? With the Museum of the Jewish People (TLV), explore photographies of individuals and communities from 6 continents, to learn and get inspired by the diversity of the Jewish peoplehood.
JAFI
Open Track
From Halleluja To Toy
Doron Medalie, Music Writer & Producer
How Israel's narrative has been changed by music? Israeli society built its narrative on victorious wars, and suddenly, at the end of the 1970's Israel had two cultural victories one after the other. How does it reflect Israeli society and how do you create such change?
AJC
Open Track
Advocacy After University
Seffi Kogen, Jackie Subar,
Benjamin Rogers, Matanya Harow
Details coming soon.
UGEI
Open Track
Future Jewish Journalism
David Zebuloni, Luca Spizzichino, Luca Clementi, Nathan Greppi, Ludovica Efrati
Details coming soon.
SAUJS
Open Track
Apartheid : SA Perspective
Klaas Mokgomole, Ariel Goldberg
This session aims to give a South African perspective on understanding and dismantling the false Apartheid-Israel analogy. It provides a framework for international collaboration between student unions to further combat this misleading narrative
SHATIL
Leaders Track
Digital World / Fundraising
Lee Wilson
Digital fundraising is much more than slapping a donate button on your website. Use your supporters’ voices to elevate your cause. We will discover three simple steps in digital fundraising: Attract, Nurture, and Convert.
WJC
Leaders Track
Pitch Your Project
Yoni Hammermann
Pitch your project of a meaningful initiative for students, communities and more. A jury will deliberate feedback as well as nominate winners to be supported for their projects : application opening soon.
Jonathan Braun
Thursday 31 December
NIF
Open Track
Democracy : In Sickness & In Health
Mickey Gitzin,
Naomi Mittelmann Cohen
Mickey Gitzin will speak about the ills of modern democracies, how civil society can engage in inoculating and preventing any future diseases. His lecture will focus on the challenges that populism poses to democracies and possible solutions to overcome them.
BGH
Open Track
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Footsteps of Ben-Gurion
Virtual Tour
The house tells both a national story, as it sheds light on the backstage of the critical moments in the early years of the state of Israel, and a personal story through an unmediated encounter with Ben-Gurion's private figure and lifestyle.
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Closing Ceremony
Awards Ceremony 2020
World Union of Jewish Students
Each year, the World Union of Jewish Students rewards the most innovative, active, empowering and supporting unions and leaders of Jewish students. Nominations here : (coming soon).
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Closing Ceremony
New Year : Sound You Need
Live Concert & Chill
New year is almost here, and most of us are stuck home. So let's gather for an amazing moment of sounds you need to enjoy the end of 2020 properly and get hyped for 2021.
AWB
Leaders Track
Creating Safer Spaces
Nate Shalev
This action-oriented session will focus on how to create safer spaces for LGBTQ students, both virtual and in person. Discuss strategies to create inclusive environments. Address specific challenges such as working within religious and with on-campus communities.
JOEH
Leaders Track
Creative Activism
Victoria Borochov, llya Babkin
Details coming soon.
Sunday 03 January
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Leaders Track
General Assembly
Motions, Voting, Elections, Debates
Be part of the "almost" most important votes of 2021. Make your voice heard, put forward motions, and elect the leadership you want to see for Jewish students worldwide.
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Leaders Track
Announced Soon
Speaker Announced Soon
Details coming soon.