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Israeli Units of Democracy, State Zionist Council of NSW
This talk was part of a panel for Yom Rabin which addressed the question, “is Israel the only democracy in the Middle East?” Israel’s system of government developed out of the political system of the yishuv. The form of proportional representation used guarantees a wide diversity of opinion is represented and that personalities can play […]
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Online Engagement, Zionist Federation of the United Kingdom and Ireland
This presentation was delivered to the mission to Israel of the Zionist Federation of the UK. The presentation was preceded by an address from the British Ambassador to Israel who stayed for part of this presentation.
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Online Engagement, Israel Connect
This presentation took place as part of the Israel Connect trip to Israel in 2008. Israel connect is a Europe wide network of 20 and 30 year old Zionists and is supported by the Zionist Federation of the UK.
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Young Jewish Diplomatic Leadership Seminar, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This talks at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem was to a group of Jewish leaders in 20s and 30s who had been hand picked by the Ministry for training in diplomacy, the middle east and matters relating to Israels security. My presentation included discuss of Electronic Intifada’s campaign and manipulation of Wikipedia to attack […]
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Effective Online Engagement (Workshop), ROI Summit
ROI is a global community of young Jewish innovators that was created by Lynn Schusterman in the summer of 2006 as a partnership between the Center for Leadership Initiatives and Taglit-Birthright Israel. I was privileged to be recommended as a participant by Gil Troy and accepted by ROI. In addition to participating in the conference […]
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Zionism Online Advocacy and Antisemitism, Zionist Organization of America
This talk was delivered as the keynote at the annual general meeting of the Pittsburgh branch of the Zionist Organization of America. It included discussion about problems in Google Earth which myself, the ZOA and the JIDF had all been focusing on. That problem was eventually solved.
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The Battle of Ideas & Online Israel Activism, World Union of Jewish Students
This talk was presented to Israeli students training with WUJS. It involved two separate presentations, the first on the Leading Role of NGOs in the “Durban Strategy”, in the lead up to Durban II, and the second on Online Israel Activism and Defending Israel and the Jewish People in Web 2.0. Advice for personal engagements […]
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Is there a problem officer? Lies, dangers and hate on the information superhighway, AJC
This talk was developed by myself and Avigail Sugerman. Avigail later delivered it to a school audience. The talk includes discussion of the AJC competition “My Israel” which was attacked and the competition website later hacked. In 24 hours the site had almost 800,000 hits – and in the last hours it tipped 1 million […]