The Wiesenthal Government Advocacy Internship is entering its fourth year as a one-of-a-kind program in educating the next generation on the practical skills necessary to be effective leaders in Jewish communal advocacy. The program provides first-hand experience in the mechanics of state and municipal government, politics, media relations, inter-group relationship-building, grassroots organizing, and other strategic necessities for real-time effective activism. The program serves college and graduate school-aged students from across the country.
Professional Development:
Targeting educators, law enforcement officials, and state/local government practitioners and modeled after the successful Tools for Tolerance® Program at the Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles. Over 10,000 adults and young people have been trained in customized, professional development programs which include Tools for Tolerance®, Teaching Steps to Tolerance®, Task Force Against Hate, National Institute Against Hate Crimes, Tools for Tolerance for Teens®, and Bridging the Gap.
Dorothy Gardner Adler State of Anti-Semitism Lecture:
The annual address has been generously endowed in perpetuity by Simon Wiesenthal Center Trustee Allen Adler named in honor of his mother.
For more information:
212-697-1293 / swcny@wiesenthal.com