PresenTense Institute

Today we were honored by three leading young Israeli social activists at the forefront of the Israeli social-justice sector, brought to us by steering committee member Dyonna Ginsburg:

1. Asaf Baner, founder, B'Maagaleh Tzedek - dedicated to bringing business practices in line with Jewish Ethics and Judaism.

2. Roy Folkman, founder, New Spirit, a group of young activists working to make Jerusalem a younger, more prosperous and attractive city for young people, and president of the Hebrew University Student Body.

3. Tal Cohen, founder, Teach for Israel, a new initiative whose mission is to minimize and even eliminate the existing educational inequities by expanding the educational opportunity of the students in the Negev and Galilee by making higher education attainable to them.

And the community turned out in droves (we literally had people sitting all the way up to the second floor of the Institute to get a look.) Here, below, are some vids of the intro talks.

You can listen to a full audio of the session ("minus some off the record comments") on the player below or subscribe to our Creative Zionism Cast feed for our regular podcast updates.

Here is a clip with Ariel Beery's introduction to PICZ, Dyonna Ginsburg's introduction to the panel, and Asaf Baner's introduction to B'Maagalei Tzedek:

Here is the introduction to "Young Spirit" or Ruach Chadasha by Roy Folkman:

And here is the introduction of Teach for Israel by Tal Cohen:

The panel was literally awesome and inspiring. It is amazing all of these guys are only in their early 30s. More clips to come once we learn how to video edit. Till then, enjoy.