On Sunday, October 29, Project "Bridge", sponsored by a RJCF grant, brought together Russian speaking Jewish teens in the Boston community and Russian speaking Israeli teens from the Ariel Theater/Video Studio in Israel.

RJCF youth gathered in RSM Newton/Dance Fever Studio and participated in a live video communication with their Israeli counterparts to learn about each other and to address various questions about their Jewish identity and antisemitism. The teens discussed how antisemitism personally affects them, their reactions to the anti-Israel narratives on school and college campuses, their thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict and opinions on intermarriage.

This project is part of RJCF's mission to support and encourage the development of Jewish identity through Jewish education, especially among adolescents and young adults and is meant to bring together these two groups which have such similar backgrounds, but which do not have regular contact, and help them explore their ideas, goals, and identities as the young Jewish advocates of Israel.

Videographers in both studios filmed this live conversation, which will be edited and produced into a short film titled “Bridge,” which can be used as a marketing, fundraising, and educating tool. American participants: David Tverskoy, Polina Brodsky, Daniel Ulanovsky, Karin Ulanovsky, Ben Gribov, Aaron Korsunsky, Sasha Pilipchuk, Bella and Dita Berlin, Tal Kronrod and Michelle Gelberger.