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Building Future Jewish Leaders

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is proud to announce the launch of its 2020 Government AdvocacyInternship Program (GAIP).

GAIP is entering its fifth year as a one-of-a-kind program in educating the next generation on thepractical skills necessary to be effective leaders in Jewish communal advocacy.

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Photo: 2019 GAIP Interns with AssemblyMember Walter T Mosley, 57th District of the New York State Assembly and Michael Cohen, Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Since its inception, the program has served 80 college and graduate school-aged students from across thecountry. GAIP provides first-hand experience in the mechanics of state and municipal government, politics, media relations, inter-group relationship-building, grassroots organizing, andother strategic necessities for real-time effective activism.

In addition to working each day, the interns attend regular leadership training sessions given by top lobbyists, issue-based advocates and Jewish communal leaders. Further, each intern ismentored by a public-policy expert.

Please consider supportingthe Simon Wiesenthal Center's work in building the next generation of future Jewish leaderstoday.

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Photo: Session on combating onlineanti-Semitism and hate