Join our Community
Support ToI and remove all ads
Learn more
Sharon Chait
The Blogs
search
Sharon Chait
The Blogs

Sharon Chait

Apply for a Blog
Feb 22, 2020, 7:55 PM
In the Western Galilee, we’re turning the traditional Israel-Diaspora dynamic on its head.
I’m in the middle of hosting 11 non-Jewish leaders from North America. Comprised of academics, political, religious figures and others, the group is seeing the sights and meeting the people of Israel. And Israeli donors are covering the cost. It’s...
Load more
About Me
Sharon Chait is putting the Western Galilee on the map for American Jews. The former Pepsi food scientist switched her focus from cola to community-building in 2005 — initially in the US and then in Israel. Today, she directs the Jewish Agency’s Partnership2Gether program that connects some 17 Midwest communities to the Western Galilee (Nahariya, Matte Asher and Akko municipalites) & Budapest, and unites them around cultural, social, medical, educational and economic initiative.