Dear
Friends!
We are glad to welcome you at the official web-site of Odessa Hillel. At our site you can find the history of our organization, the team of Odessa Hillel an a lot of other information. Visit us - the information will be renovated and
added.
This summer "Hillel" opened doors for one more art-project. For this time an artistic group appeared. From now due to creative potential of Nastya Kirilina, well-known Odessa artists, hillel students are able to visit the lessons of painting. Studies are held in the main office of "Hillel" every week (7 Grecheskaya st).
Once the great Bernardo Bertoluchchi said that people come to the cinema to share the same dream. The deputy director Alexandra Zlobina is almost professionally engaged in creation of such dream in our youth organization of «Hillel». Only in a couple of months a permanent audience was actively formed here. And club continues to earn authority among other old programs. The love to the favorite business and faith in undeniable is the anchor philosophy for its coordinator.
Finally! The Best Jewish party-2010 happened in Odessa! Conducting our "big event-2010" was preceded by a lot of preparatory work, that took over 1.5 months. The preparation involved the whole stuff of Odessa Hillel without exception, each made his contribution to a general holiday and helped to make it a memorable one.
On 23-24 May 2010 "Intellectual Wars-2010" were successfully held in Odessa,. This is the biggest project of the Odessa Youth Centre Hillel, promoting the intellectual development of young people, connecting young people through the game with the elements of competition. The festival was held in Odessa for the 4th time, and contributes to the promotion of intellectual sport, and also rise up the tourism image of the city of Odessa and the development of partnerships with other cities.
On March, 24 Odessa “Hillel” hosted a very honorable guests. Quite unexpected, but very pleasand visit was done to Odessa Jewish community by Chief Rabbi of Turkey Izak Haleva and the president of Ashkenazi community of Istanbul - ðóêîâîäèòåëü Benjamin Goldstein.
As we reported few weeks ago, a large-scale project for the exchange of experiences among the Jewish communities of Baltimore (USA) and Odessa took part in Odessa 15-22 March. Eleven American students were visiting our city to study the Jewish community of Odessa, as well as to establish contacts for the
future.
On February 28 Odessa Jewish community celebratet the most funny holiday of the year – PURIM. And due to this event Odessa Hillel Center accompanied with the Israeli cultural center organised beauty contest „Miss Esther”.
Sport achievements of
Odessa Hillel don’t stop to surprise us. As far as we have strong
professionals in basketball – we also care about those students, who aren’t
champions, but want to be them!
The man, who saved one life – saved all the humanity
January, 27 – international Memory day of Holocaust victims.
Each year, on January 27th, we remember 6 millions of Holocaust victims, 6 millions of people who were murdered only for that fact, that they were jews. Every year there are memorable ceremonies are holding all over the
world.
On the 25th of January a very important event was holding in Odessa. The announcing of the winners of the project – “TOP-100 young leaders of Odessa”, the project was hold for the 1st time, and took great interest with the youth of our city, as well as with the professionals who are developing young leadership in Odessa. The event was hold to resume the activity of Odesa young leaders in 2009.