Tzabar Parents

Tzabar Parents aims to be social, professional and intellectual address

to Israeli immigrant parents and educators in the field of Jewish and

Israeli culture and identification among young immigrant families.

Parents Surveys

Immigrant Parents Survey #1(n=260, Jan-Feb 2012)

Average=3.74 of 5

I want my children to continue to live in Israel.

I feel that I am quite familiar with Israeli culture,to introduce it to my children.

It is important to me that my kids knew the Russian language.

It is important to me that my children were familiar with Russian culture (books, movies, music, etc.)

It is important to me that my children speak, read and write in Hebrew well.

It is important for me that my children felt part of Israeli society.

It is important to me that my children were familiar with Jewish culture and tradition.

I feel that I am familiar enough with Jewish traditions, to attach to them my children

Parents Survey #2 (n=103, May 2012)

Family Cultural Needs

Which topics of parents’ meetings are most interesting to you? (you can mark more than one answer)

Topic Number of answers

Bilingualism in Israel 70

Multiculturalism in Israel 49

Intergenerational relationship 40

Jewish and Israeli culture 33

Other 8

Topic Number of answers

Hiking and nature walks, trips to places of interest in Israel

86

Emotional and cognitive training to Israeli municipal kindergarten and school

52

Celebrating Jewish holidays & Kabalat Shabbat 37

Introduction to the Israeli culture for preschool children

36

Other 3

What kind of family activities (children and parents) do you prefer? (you can mark more than one answer)

Objectives and Anticipated Outcomes

1 )To create national social network of young immigrants’ families, providing them with positive Israeli Jewish experience and place to share their identity& culture dilemmas.

2) To develop educational content, programs and materials for young immigrant parents and educators on issues of Jewish & Israeli culture and identity , bilingualism and biculturalism at Israeli immigrant families.

3) To raise an awareness to dilemmas of biculturalism and social integration in Israel.

4) To strengthen Jewish continuity and "connectedness" to Israel among young immigrant Israeli families. By that we also aim to help stem the tide of Russian-Jewish Young Professionals emigration from Israel.

Leading Team

Co-Founder & Projects Manager. Jewish Informal

education specialist in last 12 years with rich

experience of leading educational and social

projects for Russian Speaking Jewish youth and

young adults at Israel and Former Soviet Union.

M.A at Educational Management and

Leadership from Tel-Aviv University, PhD

student at Contemporary Jewry program at Bar-

Ilan University.

Vika Shteiman

Co-Founder & Projects Manager. Educator and

group facilitator in Jewish Zionist informal

education in Israel and abroad in last 10 years.

Social activist in projects dealing with

immigrant integration into Israeli society.

Member of training staff in the Education

Department at the Jewish Agency for Israel .

B.A degree at Political Science and Media from Tel-

Aviv University, towards M.A Degree at

Democracy studies.

Sasha Klyachkina

Logistics &Partnerships Manager. Educator and

group facilitator in Jewish Zionist informal

education in Israel and abroad in programs of

Jewish Agency for Israel. Member of training

staff in the Education Department at the Jewish

Agency .

B.A at Human resources &services - Izreel Valley

Academic College.

Elena Berkovich

Ongoing projects

Mishpohod Family Journey.

Weekend educational outdoor meetings for young families, meant to strengthen the connection to the land of Israel via its rich nature resources, cultural and historical landmarks.

Three journeys like this already took place in 2012, each one attracting more families that the one before.

30.09.2012 Canada Park

9.06.2012 Sataf 7.07.2012 Ramat HaNadiv

Chagim LeMatchilim – Holidays for Newbies

Young families meetings-providing positive family Jewish experience (Shabbat & Jewish holidays), adapted to early childhood ages and Russian Speaking families cultural needs.

17.08.2012 Kabalat Shabbat in Taoz

Rosh Hashana –Sep 13, 2012 Tu BiShvat –Feb 4, 2012

SabRus Parents’ Meetings

Annual series of parents’ groups meetings with Israeli professionals in issues of identity, education and culture. Currently running at Rehovot and Beer Sheba, next destinations-Jerusalem and Ashdod.

13.07.2012 Meeting with Israeli poet Nati Bait about reading early childhood books in Hebrew

Parents Talking About Us

Thanks to your “Rosh HaShana Seder” I was able to make one of my one to my friends’ families in 24 hours’ notice. Victoria, Jerusalem

I am really glad I got your Sukkot brochure just before the holidays– finally I understand what exactly we are celebrating at Sukkot. Raya, Haifa

It is really important that I have a place now where I meet other parents who are dealing with the same issues as I do – even though we live in Israel for a long time. Apparently, I am not alone, and it’s ok to wonder and learn new things about my Judaism together with my kids. Thank you for this amazing experience!Tanya, Tel-Aviv

Our Volunteers

Miriam & Danny Rubinstein, Eithan’s parents.

Started as participants in our activities, and then asked to join the team. Danny and Miriam help with logistics, preparations, generating ideas,. They do it with a lot of devotion and love.

Yoni Demeshko, Ilan’s father.

Yoni is responsible for all recent colorful flyers of our activities – he creates them, using his imagination and deep understanding of our needs. Besides, he is great with kids, which comes in handy when working with families.

Eddie Berkovitch, Adam’s father.

Eddie is an experienced non-formal educator, who knows how to organize a big activity for large amount of people. He is also a great photographer, and thanks to him we have amazing pictures from the family journeys.

Ira and Lena Simonovich

Ira and Lena are talented young designers and artists. They were with us right from the beginning, and created our logo and our first flyers.

Our Upcoming Projects

3. Family ceremonies moderators’ course. Half-annual professional workshop for Russian Speaking Israeli parents and professionals interested to learn about family based ceremonies in order to conduct them in their own families and communities (baby boy\girl naming and welcoming rituals, Bar /Bat-Mitzvah).This is a joint project with “HAVAYA Israeli life cycle ceremonies”.

4. International families exchange program. Social and educational program of “ guest families” exchange, providing young Russian speaking Jewish families affordable opportunity to travel with little kids and to get introduced to life of Russian speaking community in Israel\ Russia \ North America

Want to know more about us?Participate in our projects? Volunteer ?

• Visit our Facebook page and join next eventswww.facebook.com\tzabarparents

• Or contact us:info@tzabar-parents.org