Yonathan Bar-On's Class and School Projects

In 2024 and 2025, two groups of students of Leo Baeck worked online with students of two Ukrainian school, the ORT Educational Complex #141 in Kyiv and the Construction Professional College in Kropyvnytskyi. The topic was 'Comfort Food in Times of War'. We shared personal experiences that we had during the wars that our countries were (and still are) fighting, and talked about how food sometimes can help us cope with difficult situations. You can see one of the 2025 videos  here . In 2024, another video, made by students of the ORT Kyiv and Leo Baeck won a prize in the video competition of the Centropa Jewish Network . The participants of the 2024 edition A screenshot from one of the 2025 videos

 Five Holocaust survivors, born in five different countries, shared five very different life stories. Students turned those stories into five videos. The  title of the project was taken from a poem by one of the five survivors, the writer and poet Halina Birenbaum.

 20 schools, choirs, orchestras and 2 rabbis from 8 different countries and 4 different continents, sang, played and then shared Christmas and/or Hanukkah songs, plus their best wishes for the new year. This project was done in 2021, 2022 and 2024 .