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עט השדה
2012
ספטמבר
Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, and the Ministry of Education’s Youth Advancement
Service, is encapsulated in its name – B’roshAher (translated as “With a Different Mindset”), and
is expressed mainly in its “different” work practices. The central challenge of these practices is to
offer youth who do not reach treatment frameworks solutions that correspond to their needs and
situation.
The third article discusses the challenge of including volunteers in an organization and
examines ways to retain volunteers from diverse generations. Ronit Bar, directorof the National
Volunteerism Project at JDC, and Liora Arnon, Volunteerism’s director of knowledge development,
propose a practical solution to this challenge. They propose an interesting typology which can be
implemented in the management of volunteers from various generations. Beyond the discussion
of the volunteers’ characteristics, Bar and Arnon survey the tools available to organizations when
confronting the perpetual preoccupying challenge: ensuring volunteer efficacy and their long-term
retention.
In the second section of this issue, Field Journal, we left it to the written word alone to transport
readers to spheres of professional, personal and internal discourse. This section introduces the
experiences and impressions of professionals in the field. The first article relates the story of
Adiel, Omri and Ido, members of the Council of Youth Movements in Israel, following their stay in
Ethiopia. This article reveals the challenge that they undertook over the course of their fascinating
personal and professional study tour of Ethiopia – to travel to a faraway place, beyond Israel, to
study and familiarize themselves with the culture of Ethiopian Jews. It draws from their interview
with Dr. Anat Pessate-Schubert, director of the JDC-Ashalim Knowledge and Learning Center,
following their return from Ethiopia. How deep was their awareness that their understanding
of the Ethiopian community would change during the trip? To what extent did they engage with
the question of whether they would discovered different big story about Ethiopian Jews, and what
would happen if so? The article suggests three prisms through which the interviewees’ story can
be glimpsed – Adiel, Omri and Ido’s point of view, the point of view of Amram who accompanied
them on the trip, as well as the writer’s point of view.
The second article, by Dr. Flora Mor and Itamar Luria, grapples with the challenge of matching
educational intervention programs with work in the ultra-Orthodox community. Some of the
challenges highlighted by Mor and Luria are embodied in professional questions and dilemmas.
For example, what is the work of the educational lead staff, how can the homeroom teacher’s
role be expanded in view of the importance of his/her working with students at risk, what is the
professional terminology and how can it adapted to the ultra-Orthodox community’s mindset,
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