The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston and four other local non-governmental organizations welcomed a delegation of five Haifa NGOs. Held in downtown Boston, the meeting was the first out of a week of events planed for the Boston-Haifa NGO Learning Exchange. According to The Jewish Advocate:The Learning Exchange is a first-of-its-kind program involving the two partnership communities, Boston and Haifa, with the longest ongoing relationship between a U.S. and an Israeli city. The NGOs, which have been placed in carefully selected partnerships, will work together to build relationships and help one another develop better tactics as organizations.
“We want to look at Haifa as an example of civil society. What we’re doing is an experiment,” said Nancy K. Kaufman, executive director of the JCRC. “We don’t know where it’s going, but I’m a big believer in the process. Trust the process.”