Follow CIE all around the world as we make presentations to a wide variety of diverse audiences and communities on modern Israel.
December 5, 2019: Rich Walter led a conversation on “Israel and Diaspora Judaism,” for educators participating in Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Teacher Mission to Israel.
December 5, 2019: Former Knesset Member and IDF Chief Spokesperson Nachman Shai engaged in conversation with students at the Weber School in Atlanta on Israeli achievements, society, and politics.
December 3, 2019: Tal Grinfas-David worked with faculty and students at the Golda Och Academy in West Orange, NJ as part of the CIE Day School Initiative.
November 20, 2019: Eli Sperling taught, “The Evolution of Israeli Political Culture, Society and the Arts” at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.
November 8, 2019: Rich Walter facilitated, “What makes an Effective Israel Learning Experience?” for participants in the Machon Madrichim program of the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst in Atlanta, GA
November 4, 2019: Eli Sperling led, “Israel 101 for Those Considering Conversion to Judaism,” at The Temple, Atlanta, GA
- “The Jerusalem Embassy Decision in Context” for ninth and tenth grade students at the Donna Klein Jewish Academy;
- “Engaging with Israel Education” for staff members of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
- “Leadership Strategies for Engaging with Israel” for participants of the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Community Leadership Institute
- “Israel at 70: Celebrating Moments and Individuals” for residents at the Sinai Residences.
November 27 – December 4, 2017: Rich Walter served as a scholar in residence for the Atlanta Jewish Teen Initiative’s “Teen Innovation & Engagement Cohort: Israel Seminar.” Participants in the eight-day seminar in Israel represented six congregations, youth movements, summer camps, and arts organizations from greater Atlanta.
November 12, 2017: Rich Walter and Eli Sperling together with CIE consultants Aaron Bregman, Steve Kerbel and Risa Walter planned and facilitated a workshop for 80 educators in Bethesda, MD
November 5-8, 2017: Ken Stein, “Presentations on the Middle East and American Foreign Policy,” Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City
October 25, 2017: Rich Walter led an interactive education session on immigration to Israel for Jewish community youth professionals convened by the Atlanta Jewish Teen Initiative
September 1-4, 2017: Eli Sperling presented two sessions as part of Limmud Atlanta/Southeast: “Jewish-Arab Intercommunal Violence” and “Music and American Zionism.”
August 20, 2017: Rich Walter facilitated a special workshop for members of Hadassah of Greater Atlanta entitled, “Let’s Talk About Israel: Train the Trainer.”
August 13, 2017: Eli Sperling guided participants at the Atlanta Jewish Education Directors’ Council annual professional development Kallah during a session entitled, “Teaching Jewish Texts Through Music”
The Six Day War a Retrospective: 92nd St Y, ADL, and the LBJ Library —April 2, live stream
(Ken Stein, Hussein Ibish, Anita Shapira, Dennis Ross, Itamar Rabinovich, Jane Eisner)
http://92yondemand.org/six-days-shook-world-war-began and http://92yondemand.org/lasting-effects-war-transformed-middle-east
March 27 – 31, 2017: Atlanta Jewish Academy Seminar on Modern Israel – Year two of a four-year project with the high school students at Atlanta Jewish Academy. The theme of this year’s seminar was Israeli politics. Using materials designed by CIE, students learned about the elections process, different branches of Israeli government and engaged in a Knesset simulation.
March 25, 2017 – Rich Walter and Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser presented, “Israel:Behind the Headlines,” as part of the National Council for Jewish Women (NCJW) conference in Atlanta. The seminar focused on using primary source documents to better understand complex issues such as Jerusalem, Settlements, and the Two-State Solution.
March 21 and 22, 2017 – CIE presented two sessions at at the 2017 CCAR Convention in Atlanta. On March 21, Ken Stein led “Using Sources and Documents to Retell the June 1967 War,” and March 22, Rich Walter led, “Practical Ways to Engage Teens with Israel.”
March 14, 2017 – Ken Stein led a seminar, “Israel in Context: A Day of Israel Learning,” for rabbis in Northern California as part of CIE’s rabbinic seminar series.
February 23rd, 2017 – Ken Stein delivered the 2017 Feinberg Lecture at Whittier College in Whittier, CA, “Arab-Israeli Negotiations: Why they worked in the ’70s but not now.”
February 17, 2017 – CIE Rabbinic Fellow, Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser engaged with student participants in CIE’s “Teaching Israel: Peer Israel Education Program for Reform Movement Israel Program Alumni.” The program was a joint initiative of CIE and the Association of Reform Zionists (ARZA). Participants took part in two in-person seminars (October 2016 and February 2017) and several webinars dealing with a variety of topics relating to Israel and pedagogy. Each participant then planned and delivered an education program on Israel in their home communities.
February 7th, 2017 / March 1, 2017- Ken Stein led two community programs:
- “Understanding the Campus Atmosphere: BDS & Anti-Semitism and Other Problems that You May Encounter,” at The Temple in Atlanta, GA.
- “Campus Solutions: Strategies and engaging with peers and professors on Israel” at Temple Beth Tikvah in Roswell, GA
Both programs were part of a three part series on Israel on Campus underwritten by grant from the Breman Foundation.
December 26th, 2016 – Teens at the 2016 United Synagogue Youth International Convention in Dallas, TX construct a timeline of events in Israel/Zionist history. The session was one of two classes presented by CIE at the annual gathering of Conservative Jewish youth.
December 4th, 2016 – Synagogue educators in Greater New Haven, CT learn about immigration to Israel in the 1950s as part of a community wide professional development day. CIE Associate Director for Israel Education Rich Walter created the activity as a model for using a variety of primary sources and constructivist techniques in teaching about Israel .
November 17th, 2016 – CIE Associate Director for Israel Education Rich Walter engages 12th grade students at the Weber School in Atlanta in a simulation of the First Zionist Congress. The simulation was part of the senior class’s preparation for their upcoming Israel trip.
November 13 – 16, 2016 – CIE launched its second cohort of the “Certificate in Israel Education” program. Rich Walter, Eli Sperling and CIE consultant Steve Kerbel led sessions for the sixteen members of the new cohort during the Jewish Educator’s Assembly annual conference in Los Angeles, CA
November 7th, 2016 –CIE Rabbinic Fellow, Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser teaching “Women in Israel: Seekers, Builders and Keepers” at the Annual Temple Sinai of Atlanta Women’s Retreat
November 6th, 2016 – CIE planned and facilitated a workshop for 120 educators in West Palm Beach, Florida. Included in the program was a special track for engaging early childhood learners with Israel led by CIE ECE Consultant, Risa Walter
“Teaching Israel for Tomorrow” Friedman Commission for Jewish Education, West Palm Beach, FL
November 3rd, 2016 – CIE Rabbinic Fellow Ellen Nemhauser and David Bernstein, President and CEO of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, moderated a discussion for Atlanta Jewish Community Leaders on How to address the threat to our community that stems from disagreements over what is best for Israel. The program was sponsored locally by the Atlanta Jewish Community Relations Council.
October 31, 2016 – CIE President Ken Stein and Rabbinic Fellow Ellen Nemhauser teaching and learning with rabbis in Long Island, NY as part of CIE’s rabbinic seminar series.
October 13th and 14th, 2016 – CIE President Ken Stein and Associate Director for Israel Education Rich Walter each led professional development seminars on teaching about Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict to participants at 2016 Georgia Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference.
October 13th, 2016
Congregation Children of Israel, 3005 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30909
P: 706-736-3140, F: 706-738-8579
July 2016 – CIE Rabbinic Fellow, Ellen Nemhauser, leads the service at the National Hadassah Convention in Atlanta, during which she delivered a D’var Torah and followed with a discussion of the current status of women in Israel.
July 2016 – CIE’s Associate Director of Education, Rich Walter, spoke to Hadassah Associates, men who stand in support of Hadassah’s mission to advance medical research, healing, and education, during the National Hadassah Convention in Atlanta.
June 2016 – Ellen Nemhauser, CIE’s Rabbinic Fellow, poses with CIE Board of Directors Member, Deborah Lauter, at the White House in Washington, D.C. to promote interfaith dialogue.
May 2016 – Professor Ken Stein, President, CIE, presented, “One State or Two States in the Israeli-Palestinian Arena, or Are Neither Possible?” at the Laic Jewish Community Center David Susskind, Brussels, Belgium
February 2016 – Professor Ken Stein, President, CIE, presented, “American Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” at the University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
February 2016 – Professor Ken Stein, President, CIE, presented, “Israel and the Middle East: Past Stories, Future Scenarios,” Sephardic Community Center, Mexico City, Mexico
February 2016 – Eli Sperling, CIE’s Israel Specialist and Assistant Program Coordinator, hosts keynote presentation on Israeli music during the 64th annual Jewish Educators Assembly Conference in Mount Laurel, N.J.
February 2016 – CIE Associate Director of Education, Rich Walter, presents educational workshop on Israel for students at the Epstein School, Atlanta, Ga.
December 2015 – CIE’s Rabbinic Fellow, Ellen Nemhauser, holds workshop for fellows at the Jackson, Miss. headquarters of the Institute for Southern Jewish Life.
November 2015 – CIE’s Eli Sperling, Israel Specialist and Assistant Program Coordinator, and Rich Walter, CIE’s Associate Director of Education, host seminar on Israel education at Bronfman Jewish Education Centre in Montreal, Quebec.
October 2015 – CIE’s Rabbinic Fellow, Ellen Nemhauser, and Rich Walter, Associate Director of Education, present a three-series workshop, “Community Conversations about Israel,” at Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville, N.J., and Har Sinai Temple, Pennington, N.J.
August 2014 – Israel Specialist and Assistant Program Coordinator for CIE, Eli Sperling, moderates a panel discussion: “Reading Between the Headlines, Understanding How Violence and Political Tension Fit into the Greater Arab/Israeli Conflict during LimmudFest 2014, at Camp Ramah Darom, Clayton, Ga.
