A seminar "Leader of the XXI century", during which were discussed questions of youth role in community development and other subjects concerning future of the Jewish world, was held in Bishkek. The Jewish community of Kazakhstan was represented by "Noar Hovshi" Youth club members.

  The seminar program included psychological trainings, directed on the development of skills of work in small groups, uncovering leadership features and rising the activity of interaction between leader and group. Vyacheslav Shinkarenko, an experienced psychologist, not only united seminar participants, but uncovered character features of young people that they didn't suspect about.

  At the round table the Jewish young people met with Iosif Zisels - the General Board chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; Iosif Lubovitch - the head of "Sokhnut" International Jewish Agency representation in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; Konstantin Shveibish - an education consultant of "Sokhnut" Agency representation in Tashkent. Those people famous in the Jewish world told about problems of modern CIS Jewish communities.

   Future leaders also attended the lecture on fundraising and other perspective trends of social work.

  The organizers listened to each participant, took into consideration all offers and requests. Of, course, everybody would like to meet again to exchange experience, to gain new knowledge, to learn into the future bravely and with assurance and to become a perspective figure in the Jewish world.

A seminar participant
Evgeniya Zeif (Kazakhstan, Almaty)