October, 2021 | The Jerusalem Intercultural Center

Continuing Cultural Competency Training with Sapir College Staff

We’ve written here and here about our activities in cultural competency in academia, and here about our work with Sapir College. In early October, 2021, we held another session about teaching remotely and in a culturally senistive manner. The session focused on the the challenges resulting from Covid-19 and its implications, including remote study, which added to the complexity of teaching in a culturally competent manner.

More about teaching culturally competently

Online conference of Cultural Competence and Diversity in Online Teaching

We were invited by the Coordinator of the Israeli Hope initiative at Sapir College to lecture on “Cultural Competence and Diversity in Online Teaching”, at a digital learning conference held by the Unit for Advancing Teaching and Learning.

Discussing different issues, including ‘camera on – camera off’ during Zoom classes

Dr. Hagai Agmon-Snir, JICC’s founding director and a lecturer at Bar Ilan University on multicultural and culturally competent community development, led a discussion on teaching online classes to a culturally diverse class, on the difference between inter-generational and age-based gaps, on open and closed cameras during Zoom meetings, and also about lecturers’ frustrations and thoughts about how to stay interesting enough and relevant enough for their millennial students.

This year, too, we will continue to advance cultural competence in academia, in collaboration with coordinators of the Israeli Hope in Academia initiative. Stay tuned for more updates.

And here’s the Facebook post of Orna Shani Golan, Director of our Cultural Competency Desk:

Naomi Roff2021-12-21T07:22:23+00:00October 15th, 2021|Blog, Cultural Competence, Cultural Competence in Academic Institutions|

Little Prince – Working in Kiryat Hayovel to Clean Up Ad-Hoc Garbage Dumps

We’ve described here, here and here the work the Little Prince project has done over the past few years to forge partnerships with city employees.

One recent example was in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood in southwestern Jerusalem.

Over the years, more and more abandoned vehicles have been left on an unused area of Kiryat Hayovel, known as the Warburg complex (since it borders on Warburg St.), which is also used as a parking lot for local residents. Although it is a large lot, there is not enough space for all residents to park their cars, and the abandoned vehicles take up very critical parking spaces.

Continuing to build public-private partnerships with Little Prince

Usually, the process of handling an abandoned vehicle, from the moment the request is filed until towing, is very long (at least 6 months) and requires contact and cooperation with the municipal inspectors office and especially, with the neighborhood inspectors. Thus, it’s so much easier when responsible and dedicated inspectors help residents deal with complex cases.

Kiryat Hayovel has two amazing inspectors who help the city to function and to be cleaner: Shirley the utmost professional who walks the beat non-stop and who is in contact with residents and helps solve problems; and Maor, who is responsible for the area of abandoned vehicles in the area.

Maor was very matter-of-fact and pleasant as Little Prince activists addressed the abandoned vehicle issue at Warburg. He informed them about the process, explained why it takes more and more time, enlisted the help of residents (who sent photos from the field and made a list with vehicle numbers and models). Maor updated when the crane will arrive and how many vehicles would be collected.

Getting rid of old abandoned cars

Many thanks to Shirley for connecting the Little Prince to the right person and to Maor for understanding the need expiditing the process, and for maintaining continuous contact with residents and assistance in returning the Warburg lot to the residents. Here’s the description of the process by our Tal Kligman in her Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/351842318545451/posts/1376155942780745/

Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and Natan for their continued support of the Little Prince!

Naomi Roff2021-12-21T06:58:20+00:00October 14th, 2021|Blog, Effective Activism, The Little Prince - Cleaning Jerusalem Together|

Monthly Archives: October 2021

Continuing Cultural Competency Training with Sapir College Staff

Little Prince – Working in Kiryat Hayovel to Clean Up Ad-Hoc Garbage Dumps