Metsuda Young Leadership Initiative Expands to Caucasus

Ask Nadezhda Kulikova what she learned from attending JDC’s Metsuda program in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and she’ll tell you the four-day youth leadership development seminar “broke” her.
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Ask Nadezhda Kulikova what she learned from attending JDC’s Metsuda program in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and she’ll tell you the four-day youth leadership development seminar “broke” her.

JDC senior archivist Misha Mitsel’s book “The Final Chapter: The Agro-Joint in the Years of the Great Terror” explores the history of the Agro-Joint, which created Jewish agricultural colonies and industrial schools in southern Ukraine and Crimea during the 1920s and 1930s. Read a Q&A with Mitsel on this both tragic and triumphant time in JDC’s history.

The concept of Father’s Day would not always have come easy for 10-year-old “David,” who lives with his parents and older brothers in a coastal Israeli town north of Tel Aviv.