When my daughter taught me about Passover Last week, my six-year-old daughter (Yuval) asked me how Moses managed to lead the Israelites out of Egypt all by himself. I told her that Moses wasn’t alone. No Israelite, not even Moses, could have broken out of Egypt and journeyed through the desert to the Promised Land alone. The exodus from Egypt can be seen as the first Jewish social startup. The ability to transform the dream of freedom into reality required a great deal of pow

For the past two years, we have been training co-ed children's soccer teams in Akko; a Jewish team from the "Shazar" school, and an Arab team from the "Almanara" school in the old city. The children on each of these teams, ages 8-11, treat each other with respect. When boys and girls play on a sports team together without incidents of exclusion or discrimination, the message of equality can last a lifetime. The two teams usually train separately but last Thursday, we brought

“I’m proud to live in Akko because of all the different kinds of people who live here. Not every city is like that and that’s what makes us special. Also we have great soccer fields!” Nehorai, age 10, Tomer Elementary School. Members of the Akko Educators’ Kibbutz recently launched a pilot project aimed at engaging Akko’s elementary school students on issues that matter to them about life in the city. Even though they are young, our goal is for the students to begin to develo