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Chaim Peri is one of the preeminent educators of our time and one of the world’s most righteous human beings.
-Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

 

Chaim Peri

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Autumn Graves, President, Girard College, visited the Village to learn about the remarkable progress of the Educational Initiatives.
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Chaim Peri has served as educator and director of Yemin Orde Youth Village for 30 years, touching the lives of thousands of at-risk children, both immigrant and Israeli born.
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The Dalai Lama and Chaim Peri have much in common: spiritual strength and love of learning.
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Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education, visited Yemin Orde Youth Village to experience the Village Way.

About Chaim Peri

Chaim Peri has served as educator and director of the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel for 30 years, touching the lives of thousands of at-risk children, both immigrant and Israeli born.

His achievements include

  • 1994: Initiate the Steering Center of Ethiopian Educational Affairs at the Ministry of Education;
  • 1995: Establishment of the Shvut Am Institute at Yemin Orde, which addresses the identity conflicts of adolescent immigrants;
  • 2000: Establishment of Yemin Orde’s Mechina, Pre-Military Leadership Program for Immigrant Youth in Hatzor, a town in the Upper Galilee.

In 2007, Chaim launched Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives, an independent educational project aimed at rejuvenating youth villages throughout Israel, based on the successful philosophy and methodology developed at Yemin Orde Youth Village. Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives reflects Yemin Orde’s values of diversity, pluralism, service to the community, Jewish identity and spirituality.

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Chaim Peri has been recognized for his work on behalf of Israel’s youth. He received Prime Minister Shimon Peres' "Guardian of the Child" Award, and was honored to light a ceremonial torch during the official opening of a Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem.

In 2007, he was awarded the Exemplary Educator Award by the Minister of Education.

Peri holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bar Ilan University, a Masters degree from Columbia, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of London.

Chaim Peri's Book
Teenagers Educated The Village Way will inspire readers from the very first pages.

From internationally-known visionary educator, Chaim Peri, come poignant stories of children born into precarious circumstances but who receive a second chance at leading a wholesome and successful life. In sharing his own childhood experiences in Israeli orphanages, Chaim is able to connect to the same feeling of loss and abandonment as the at-risk immigrant children at Yemin Orde Youth Village. This book is a brilliant testament to the power of creating communities of meaning.

Chaim Peri speaks from the heart in a direct, personal voice that carries readers on a journey into the psyche of an at-risk child.

Where can I find the book?

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