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About Hungarian Jewry One of the largest Jewish communities of Europe live in Hungary, that is cca. 100,000 people. From the dream of many years, this Hungarian Jewish community actually regained strength after the change of the political system. However, the Jewish organizations only reach 1-2 % of the Jewish people living here. JMPoint Foundation with its unique solutions has already contacted 20,000 people and this number is still on the increase continuously and reliably. The people joining us find company for themselves via our projects and can also expand their knowledge of the Jewish community. With our help they can once again become part of the Jewish reality with new vistas opening up for them. Non-Jewish people can find every bit of information here to make a realistic, positive image of us. The activity of JMPoint Foundation is a large circulation, which people can join anywhere to be an active participant of the Jewish society. orgs.jmpoint.hu

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Founders and Figures In 2002 Gábor Kürti and Csaba Kürti founded the flagship of JMPoint Foundation, a Jewish Social Network named Jewish Meeting Point. This initiative was a unique one and not only in Hungary. Facebook now covering the whole world was only launched in 2004. The projects of our Foundation are in Hungarian and they are primarily targeted at Hungarian-speaking Jews. However, some of our internet-based projects shall be accessible also in English language in the future. Year by year more than 100,000 people visit our internet-based projects and those programmes of ours realized in the real world also reach several thousands of people. Launched as a Jewish dating site, it has developed into a Jewish community network covering the whole world completed with internet-based education, training, cultural, lifestyle and heritage protection projects. Growing beyond the sphere of the Internet, it has generated a large variety of multicoloued family and community programmes. In the year 2009/2010 JMPoint Foundation was selected as one of the 12 most innovative Jewish projects in Europe. The Westbury Group – Compass Europe: www.compasseurope.org

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The main fields of JMPoint Foundation I. Community building Jewish Meeting Point – Jewish Social Network, JMPoint meetings and excursions, local and international trainings, chanuka party, community balls… II. Formal and informal education JMPoint Academy, participation in Jewish and non-Jewish festivals, lectures, discussions, workshops… III. The spread of cultural values Jewbox – music and cultural magazine, Jewish music net radios, JMPoint Film Club, regular publications in Jewish newspapers, … IV. Protection of heritage Virtual Jewish Museum V. Lifestyle Family camps, community programmes, Babies and Mums Club, charity concert, CookingShul, Green Israel, eco-bio-kosher,… www.jmpoint.org

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Jewish Meeting Point The first and largest Jewish Social Network of Hungary was launched in 2002. The number of members increased to almost 20,000 throughout the years, and every year at least 100,000 people visit the website with contents accessible for everyone. The website is exclusively in Hungarian language now, but our members join community life here from all over the world, some 40 countries. Why is it worth joining? - Because this is the largest Hungarian Jewish dating site - There is a Hungarian and international job market - For community area (forum, chat, blog, groups, sharing ideasâ&#x20AC;Ś) - For an adviser area: Ask the rabbi, Ask the expertsâ&#x20AC;Ś - For the latest news - For recommended programmes on offer - For a large number of photos made at community events - For many useful information about the Hungarian Jewish community and Israel. - And mainly for the fact that there are several thousands of Hungarian-speaking Jews here in the community area! www.jmpoint.hu

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JMPoint Academy The three-year eLearning based Jewish Studies programme starts with the basics and is open to everyone. Our internationally acknowledged 17 lecturers introduce students into the depths of Jewish studies in 30 subjects, covering 3,000 pages of teaching material. More than 500 students have participated in JMPoint Academy since it was launched in 2008. Why is this training programme a unique one? - because one can join it from any part of the world, - because one can learn about topics which are not dealt with by any other university in Hungary, - it is independent of religious trends and organizations, - it is easy to keep in touch with the trainers and the students, - it helps students to find their own roots and to strengthen their Jewish identity. akademia.jmpoint.hu

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Sziget Festival JMPoint Foundation has represented Hungarian Jews at the largest music festival in Europe since 2007 as a civilian organization. The main objective of the programme is that the many hundreds of young people daily visiting the tent of Jewish Meeting Point should have a realistic picture of the Jewish community and Israel. Prepared for this task for years now, our team of volunteers tries to pass on as much information as possible with means of informal and experience-based education. We have here the largest map of Israel in Europe (8x3 metres) laid on the ground so that young people can make a tour of the country from historic sites to the most modern solar energy centre, discovering the past and present of Israel. During the quizzes we can introduce people into the seemingly closed world of Jewish history, culture and religion in a playful way. The NGO island is also that of tolerance. Even non-Jews with some prejudices visit our tent and leave us as friends after receiving answers to their questions. What is even more important: many Jewish people find us who have never been in touch with any other Jewish organization before and thus they make their very first step towards their Jewish identity whilst helped by us.

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Virtual Jewish Museum Since 2008 we have been digitalising Jewish religious and cultural relics found all over Hungary. After processing and making a catalogue of them the images are made accessible to everyone via the internet as a collection on a website in three languages. As we are now in the very last hours to do so, we started the programme by digitalizing and making photographs of the materials owned by religious communities in the countryside. Our team to archive the collections makes a tour of the country to digitalize the relics possessed by religious communities, private individuals and others with a mobile object photo studio. We are running against time, as with every clearing out junk an irreplaceable part of our past is lost. In 2010 with more than 1,000 digitalized items the Virtual Collection was opened with a continuous growth of the collection. Besides images and pictures studies, articles and books shall also be available here in a digitalized form. We would like to preserve for posterity the relics of a community of Hungarian-speaking Jews once flourishing here. www.vzsm.hu

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Jewish community life is based on the family. Without it a Jewish community has no primary objective: that eveyone should find his or her partner. Based on feedbacks f passing without a wedding of a JMPoint couple, or the birth of a JMPoint baby. We couples and the birth of 250 children so far. After World War II and four decades of t This is what we are working for now day by day.

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Green Israel Project The pimary objective of this programme is to show the other face of Israel to everyone which is rarely seen even by people actively participating in the Jewish community. News about Israel tend to focus on conflicts almost exclusively. No wonder hardly anyone knows how unique fauna and vegetation Israel has, and what kind of green technology improvements she has got to help humanity with as such. With exhibitions, lectures, conferences, trainings, films, workshops and voluntary programmes we bring closer the green face of Israel unknown to many people so far. In focus: The relationship between ecological responsibility and the Torah, Israel’s scientific and technical achievements in the service of mankind, Israel’s geography, fauna and national parks, Environment-consciousness, Making people aware of volunteerism, The presentation of the eco-kosher trend. www.zoldizrael.hu

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Jewish Cuisine Gastronomy is found all over our life, kosher cuisine is inseparable from Jewish people, and this is the reason why it has a priority compared to our other projects. We provide glatt kosher food for every programme and family camp of ours from the beginning so that every member of the Jewish community could take part in them. It is very important for us as a community building organization. Projects: Lativ Kolel – the magazine titled Forrás (Source) – independent column on Jewish cuisine JMPoint Academy – First grade – The subject titled Jewish cuisine Eco-Bio-Kosher lecture series: Lativ Kolel, Tikva Hungary, Limmud Hungary JMPoint CookingShul – a cookery course, kosher cooking and baking in practice Thematic collection of recipes: zsidokonyha.hu Judafest Gastrofest: joint baking and competition www.zsidokonyha.hu

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Jewbox Since 2006 our thematic Jewish music radios have been continuously operating. Since 2008 we have had a Jewish music and cultural magazine updated every day. Besides Hungarian and international curiosities the notes of Jewish songs, lyrics, biographies, photo galleries and many other things of interest are found here. As the majority of Hungarian Jews define their own Jewish identity on a cultural base, our magazine can reach a wide layer of society which is inaccessible for religious communities and other classical Jewish organizations. As the magazine regularly reports about community events, secularized members of the Hungarian Jewish community can also be lead back to their own roots and community step by step. Music as an international language can bridge over cultural differences and bring people closer to each other as well as open up the seemingly closed world of the Jewish community. This way we give an insight into the culture, the music and everyday life of a community with a past of several millennia. www.jewbox.hu

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International trainings Some 50 volunteers help the work of our Foundation. Their achievements mean immensely much for us and also for the whole community. By getting to know other cultures as participants of international trainings our character is enriched. Tolerance, acceptance and respect to each other are the basis for a peaceful future. Our Foundation contributes to this and thanks for the precious work done by its volunteers by delegating them to international trainings in countries all over the world. We are co-organizers of a number of international trainings in several European countries that stress the importance of the dialogues between religions, the significance of volunteerism, environment-consciousness and making the world a better place. Cooperating with people with a different way of thinking, mentality and background is always a big challenge for us but also the source of joy. Learning new approaches and getting information greatly help us to solve problems to which we had no solutions yet. This is one of the engines of our organization that guarantees the chance of continuous revival empowering us day by day to do our jobs.

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Plans for the future - Launching and maintaining Jewish family daycare - Founding an incubator house for New Jewish Ideas - Green Expo in Budapest for Israeli companies - The continuous extension of the collection of the Virtual Jewish Museum - Accrediting JMPoint Academy as a training acknowledged by the state - Jewbox radios and music cultural magazines in multilingual form, the making of their international versions - Filmclub, Israeli and Jewish topics - Organizing team-building trainings - Organizing Jewish family programmes and camps - Organizing an international training - Informal education at Sziget Festival and for 3 other big Hungarian youth festivals at their NGO sections. - European Voluntary Service, the reception and delegation of volunteers from 2012

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Institutions sponsoring us: Alliance of the Jewish Communities of Hungary American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Office for Hungary British Embassy Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund Hungarian National Civil Fund Hungarian National Cultural Fund Jewish Agency for Israel Jewish Heritage of Hungary Public Endowment L. A. Pincus Fund for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, Israel Norwegian Civil Fund The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe

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Events of the past few years Own Events JMPoint meetings and excursion (2003-2011) Chanuka Party (2006-2009) Charity Concert (2007) Birthday Party (2006-2011) First Hungarian Cartoon Marathon (2006) Film club about Jewry and Israel (2008-2010) Discovery of Synagogue of Dohány street (2010) JMPoint meeting Budapest - Tel-Aviv On-line! (2010) Jewish family camp - Balatonfüred (2010-2011) JMPoint CookingShul (2010) Green Israel, Water: a source of conflict (2011) Green Israel, Re-Dress Fashion Show (2011) Events / Presentations EU Street Festival (2005) Jewish Community Forum Conference (2005) Maccabi Sport Day (2005-2009) Israel Solidarity Day (2005-2011) Jewish Summer Festival (2005-2011) European Day of Jewish Culture (2005) Faces of Israel – Exhibition (2007) Sziget Festival (Óbudai Island) (2007-2011) Babies’ and Mums’ Club (2008) II. Red Bull SoapBox Rally (2008) Judafest, Jewish Gastronomic Festival (2008-2011) Jewish Culture Day of Tiszafüred (2010) The_media_is_You: seminar (2010)

Community Fun Run (2011) Limmud (2011) Conferences / Trainings Youth enterprenaurship - Ankara, Turkey (2007) The pre of prejudice - Izmit, Turkey (2009) The Effects of Technology on Intercultural Learning - Ankara, Turkey (2009) UNITED conference - Kiev, Ukrajna (2009) Building your Capacity and Skills - London, England (2009) Egyesek 3+ training - Hollókő, Hungary (2009) BiTriMulti - Dublin, Irland (2009) TIC-TAC - Stockholm, Sweden (2009) Non-formal education - Lecce, Italy (2010) Berlin-Art Pass the Borders - Berlin, Germany (2010) Youth climate - Trabzon, Turkey (2010) Entrepreneurship in Youth Employment Ankara, Turkey (2010) Creative Youth are Meeting with Photography - Ankara, Turkey (2010) Young Environmentalists - Izmit, Turkey (2010) ROI European Gathering - Litvánia, Vilnius (2010) ROI Summit - Tel-Aviv, Izrael (2010) Dialogue between religions, Antalya, Turkey (2011) JPropel - Uppsala, Sweden (2011) NextGen:Charity - New York, USA (2011)

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Basic infomation JMPoint for Jewish Community Public Benefit Foundation 1388 Budapest, P.O.Box: 84. Hungary Director: Csaba Kürti Mobile.: +36 (20) 444-9492 Tel/Fax: +36 (1) 787-8477 E-mail: info@jmpoint.hu Web: www.jmpoint.org Court registration number: 12. Pk. 60313/2005/3. Tax Number: 18118267-1-41 Bank Account Numbers: HUF IBAN: HU83 1170 7024 2045 6393 0000 0000 SWIFT Code (BIC): OTPVHUHB USD IBAN: HU20 1176 3079 1243 8017 0000 0000 SWIFT Code (BIC): OTPVHUHB EUR: IBAN: HU51 1176 3079 1245 9889 0000 0000 SWIFT Code (BIC): OTPVHUHB

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