The United Synagogue

Ambassadors Line Up For Finals

PRESS COVERAGE

London,
15th December 2006


AMBASSADORS LINE UP FOR FINALS



Teenagers at King Solomon High School and JFS are fighting it out for the right to be official advocates for Israel, writes Lee Lixenberg.

Four King Solomon sixth-formers and 10 JFS students are taking part in next week's finals of the Ambassadors programme - run by the United Synagogue's youth movement Tribe - where they will be judged on subjects such as public speaking, politics, education and the media.

In the first finals at KS, sixth-formers Robert Sands and Jacob Forman will be vying to win the school's public speaking contest by making a speech about Israel to other sixth-formers. Two other competitors - Kelly Burack and Phil Clifford - will be judged on the way they run a conference entitled "We are all ambassadors for Israel," in the education aspect ofthe competition.

JFS finalists are Leeran Nathan, Irene Kleinberg and Simon Conway
(public speaking); Tanya Cohen and Ysabella Hawkings (education); Esther Marshall, Charlotte Leigh and David Eluston (politics); and Anna Rosenthal and Daniel Cinna (media).

The winners will scoop a week-long trip to Israel- having fought their way through to the finals by completing tasks including making a speech before Lord Janner.

King Solomon's sixth-form Jewish studies co-ordinator Andrew Davis said that the programme had added a "new dimension" to Jewish life at the Barkingside school. "The contestants have experienced challenges which have helped them become better advocates for Israel," he told the JC.

Charlotte Klein, Tribe teens executive, explained that "the Ambassadors programme is designed to prepare sixth form students for the challenge of the anti-Israel sentiment they are likely to encounter on campus."



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Article Credit, Jewish Cronicle Newspaper www.thejc.com

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