News Articles
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Article about Yemin Orde published on the BBC's website
Attached is a link to a new article about Yemin Orde which was published on the BBCs website on Friday Sept. 28.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7016176.stm
"Music Serves as the International Language of Peace" by Lynn Edelman-Nov. 21, 2007
Published in Jewish Exponent . This article discusses the Yemin Orde Youth Choir's concert in greater Philadelphia. Edelman interviews members of the youth choir, highlighting their aliyah experiences.
"Choir Brings Songs of Peace" by Jill Huber ............ Nov. 13, 2007
Published in The New Jersey Jewish News. Huber gives summery of the Yemin Orde Youth Choir's first concert at the Zobel Foundation in Red Bank, New Jersey. The article emphasizes the choir's goal of promoting peace, love and joy through song.
"Parental Perspectives" by Jeri Zeder - March 16, 2007
Published on Foward.com. An in depth review of Chaim Peri's Reclaiming Adolescents, a parenting book that gives an alternative view on raising teens. The review gives wonderful illustrations from the book.
"Israeli Educator Proves it takes a Village" by Ian Squires - March 13, 2007
Published in Jewish Journal Palm Beach. Squires praises Chaim Peri's book Reclaiming Adolescents and explains Peri's philosophies on raising children to become healthy and contributing members in society.
"Survivors of Rwandan Genocide Learn From Ethiopian Israelis" by Eric Silver- February 5, 2007
Published in The Jerusalem Report. An insightful article about the spread of the Yemin Orde Village model by Yemin Orde graduates. Silver explains in particular the work of 15 Ethiopian Yemin Orde graduates who have actively supported the creation of a youth village in Rwanda.
"Unlimited Horizons" by Yocheved Miriam Russo -January 26, 2007
Published in The Jerusalem Post. "The Yemin Orde Youth Village in Haifa seeks to offer abandoned immigrant children hope for a better future". Article explains in depth the mission and history of the Yemin Orde Youth Village.
Israel21c.org - December 22, 2006
"Rwanda to pattern youth village on Israeli Ethiopian model" Article about the work of the new Yemin Orde Initiatives with an orphanage in Rwanda.
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - June 3, 2005
Article about Yemin Orde and events in Los Angeles in support of the Village.
Jerusalem Post - June 21, 2004
Article on the conversion of Jin Wen-Jing, an 18-year-old girl at Yemin Orde and a descendant of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China.
Yediot Acharonot - July, 2003
In Hebrew. Article on the Yemin Orde “Mechina” (military preparation) program.
“Ambassadors of Success” by Lindsay Faber - November 18, 2002
Published in Greenwich Time, Greenwich, CT
Members of the Yemin Orde Choir shares their stories of struggle and triumph while on 10-city concert tour in the U.S.
“Umm el-Fahm teen honored for thwarting bomber” by David Rudge - Friday, October 4, 2002.
Published in The Jerusalem Post
Following the guiding principles of tikkun olam, children from Yemin Orde Youth Village paid tribute to Arab youth who stop a suicide bombing at a bus stop and risked his life and safety.
“We will never leave you” by John Kessler - May 16, 2001
Published in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
With help from Atlanta Jews, an Israeli school takes in more than 500 at-risk teenagers from around the world and nurtures their bodies, minds and souls.
“The Chosen Ones” by Eetta Prince-Gibson - August 25, 2000
Published in The Jerusalem Post
The Dalai Lama sent 12 Tibetan teenagers to the Yemin Orde Youth Village on Mount Carmel to learn from Israelis how to build a nation from exile.
“Not registered, but still Jewish” by Avirama Golan - April 18, 2000
Published in Ha’Aretz (English Edition)
A class of 1,000 non-Jewish Russian youths studying at the Yemin Orde Youth Village is training for an Orthodox conversion to Judaism. This article describes their struggle with what it means to be Jewish, and be Israeli.
“A Home for Life” by Melanie A. Loasoff - December 27, 1997
Published in the Atlanta Jewish Times
At Yemin Orde, a youth village in northern Israel, immigrant teenagers find love and security with Atlanta’s help.
“Yemin Orde - Israel in a Nutshell” by Tali Agmon - July 1999
Published in Atmosphere, the in-flight magazine of El Al airlines
This is Yemin Orde - a youth village that gather’s society’s most conflicting elements, mixes them together, and proves that the result can be beautiful.
“Israel’s Yuppie Ethiopians” by Larry Derfner - July 2, 1999
Published in The Jerusalem Post
A marker for professional success among Ethiopians is a high-school matriculation from the Yemin Orde Youth Village, the “Eton” of Israeli boarding schools, whose student body is about 40 percent Ethiopian.
“For some Israelis, a shoulder to cry on” by Ethan Bronner - May 1, 1997
Published in The Boston Globe
Families who have been victims of terrorism stay at the Yemin Orde Youth Village during the summer and to visit on major holidays, mixing with the 500 Jewish teenage residents of Yemin Orde, many of them orphaned or from troubled homes.
“It Takes a Village” by Ami Eden - May 1999
Published in The Jewish Exponent
Mark Solomon, National Chair of Friends of Yemin Orde, and Paul Silberberg, Campaign Chair, discuss their reasons for supporting the Yemin Orde Youth Village.
“Absorption with Respect” by Judith Colp Rubin - June, 1993
Published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine
A Youth Aliyah village has found a way to integrate young Ethiopian Jews into Israeli life without denigrating their past.