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Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – 7:30 pm (VIP Admission: 7:00 pm) – Greenhouse (NYC’s first LEED-certified club) – 150 Varick St. (corner of Vandam)
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ACCESS: Empowering young Jewish leaders to find their voice in global and domestic affairs
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Enhancing Understanding of Israel
ACCESS engages the diplomatic community in New York and visiting opinion makers from around the world on a regular basis through formal meetings and informal gatherings to advocate for a better understanding of Israel and the Jewish community writ large. Programs such as our Israel Viewpoints: A Conversation series provide ACCESS members with a serious and engaged forum to discuss the central issues and developments confronting Israel in its quest for peace. ACCESS members have represented our views at conferences and meetings in Argentina, Ethiopia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Qatar, Poland, Rwanda, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates, and a trip is planned to India in 2010.
Building Bridges with other Ethnic and Religious Groups
Whether by traveling annually to New Orleans to help rebuild human connections and infrastructure post-Katrina or engaging in community service projects and dialogue in New York with the Urban League Young Professionals, Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, and our counterparts in the Indian-American and Latino communities: ACCESS believes in the importance of building bridges across ethnic and religious lines to broaden our understanding of each other and to make a concrete difference in our community. As representatives of the community, we also believe it is vital to strengthen our own knowledge of Jewish thought and history through our Sunday brunch discussion series and Movie Nights.
Promoting Human Rights around the World
ACCESS sent a 25 member delegation to the April 2009 Durban Review Conference at the United Nations in Geneva to speak up for victims of human rights abuses in places like Sri Lanka, Iran, Rwanda and Darfur victims whose plight is all too often crowded out by the grossly disproportionate attention paid to Israel by the UN Human Rights Council. ACCESS members conducted meetings with 15 country delegations and played a role in ensuring the anti-Semitic excesses of Durban I were not repeated. ACCESS has done programs on the Rwandan genocide and has plans to work on issues of democracy around the world.
Advocating for Energy Independence
The JREC conference on November 8 attracted over 250 attendees in San Francisco and was webcast via satellite to ACCESS chapters and partners nationwide and in Israel.