Press Release Jan 2014
Contact: Dr. Zipora (Tsipy) Gur at 412-915-9182/ [email protected]
Classrooms Without Borders And Germany Close Up Subsidize Trip To Berlin
For Twenty Jewish Young Professionals
Classrooms Without Borders, in association with Germany Close Up, is subsidizing an August 3, 2014 trip for 20 young Jewish professionals to experience Berlin’s modern transformation and its history.
The 12-day trip, set for August 3-14, will offer leading Jewish professionals up to age 39 the opportunity to visit cultural and historical sites in Germany such as Berlin, Heidelberg, Speyer, and Worms and learn more about German-American relations (including a meeting with officials of the German Federal Foreign Office), Jewish Berlin present and past (including a visit to a former concentration camp) and German-Israeli relations. The itinerary (see the full schedule here: http://www.classroomswithoutborders.org/programs/show.php?id=7 ) includes visits to the former East Germany, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as meetings with German opinion-makers, grassroots activists, faculty and students of Humboldt University Berlin, the Jewish community and German contemporaries.
Those interested in joining the trip are invited to hear more details at an open house at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, at 234 McKee Place in Oakland, on February 3 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and to contact CWB founder and executive director Dr. Zipora (Tsipy) Gur at 412-915-9182/ [email protected]. The cost to each participant, after an extensive subsidy from Germany Close Up, is $1,350 ($990 +$350 Registration fee). Germany Close Up covers flights, hotel accommodations in double rooms, most meals, transportation within Germany, admission fees and event tickets.
Germany Close Up – American Jews Meet Modern Germany was created in 2007 to provide Jewish-American young emerging leaders with an opportunity to experience modern Germany up close and personally. Trips are designed to expose participants to the many factors that form modern Germany. The trips cover issues of Germany’s terrible past and its efforts to deal with the memory of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror through today. The trips also show the country’s transformation over the last 60 years into a modern, reunified, and democratic country in the heart of the European Union, home to the third-fastest growing Jewish community worldwide.
Classrooms Without Borders (www.classroomswithoutborders.org) subsidizes teachers’ first-hand travel and learning experiences, focusing on the history and culture of Poland and Berlin from the Holocaust to today and on the history and diverse modern life of Israel.