Митбахон (на иврите означает “кухня”, место где готовят, едят и общаются), это проект который ведёт десяток эмиссаров из Израиля. Все они – молодые люди родом из Former Soviet Union. Задача проекта примерно: создать сообщество/network молодых евреев из FSU на базе интереса к Израилю, еврейской истории и культуре.

Несколько цитат из статьи в Jta.org о семинаре: “Finding their way into the community doesn’t mean the Russian immigrants don’t have a deep sense of who they are and where they come from. The notion of “discovering” their Jewish identity seems foreign to many of them, even laughable. They’re Jewish because they’re Jewish, they say — what eludes them, for the most part, is Judaism. <...> But just because they feel apart from the mainstream American Jewish community doesn’t mean they aren’t flexing their muscle and looking to build something of their own. <...> We are a community, and a relatively strong one, and we can teach other communities how to find their identity”