MA AFRIKA TIKKUN

There is a clear need for the youth of South Africa to become enthusiastically involved in the problem-solving process surrounding issues facing students, so as to develop South Africa’s next generation of leaders. Championing this issue, MaAfrika Tikkun together with the Deutsche Bank, hosted the second annual Big Talk Youth Conference. Simcha joined, 150 students from 40 diverse schools, who debated significant challenges facing high school students in the Western Cape.
 

YIDDISH MUSEUM - MENDY CAHAN

Known to his friends and supporters as a builder from the ground up, in 1992 Mendy Cahan founded Yung Yiddish. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, this non-profit association for Yiddish culture, gathers and safeguards Yiddish books and literature from all over the world. His collection has grown to some 40,000 volumes, a good part of which Mendy personally amassed on book-hunting expeditions throughout Israel.