Facilitated by Sarah Kala-Meir, CEO, and Nadav Schwartz, Community and Educational Coordinator.
For two decades, the Jerusalem Open House (JOH) has been serving the city’s LGBT community and its allies, offering services such as education, social and medical services, youth and teen groups, and various community events, including the Pride and Tolerance Parade. The JOH aspires to foster open and deep discourse and cooperative ventures with the city’s various sectors, cultures, and religions that share the vision of acceptance and peaceful coexistence. To this end, the JOH works with various other groups and governmental agencies. The workshop comprised tolerance training that the JOH conducts in schools and other educational institutions throughout the city. What conflicts emerge between the staff and students? The workshop presented student perspectives, and demonstrated a two-fold approach: allowing students
