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Empowering the Youth through Employment

Psychologists say that the youth has a natural desire to work at an early age. This is caused by the dilemma of teenage transition from childhood to adulthood. They long to be financially independent and self-sufficient from their parents. Because of this, many youth apply for jobs that can give them considerable income to sustain their daily needs.

Nevertheless, current employment trends reveal that the youth sector is badly affected by the looming unemployment crisis. Youth unemployment rate is three times higher than adult unemployment. Research shows that the youth comprise 40% of the 1 billion unemployed people in the world. This indicates that many young people are having a hard time looking for a job which suit their interest and field of expertise.

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Cunin?s Chabad

Simply put, Chabad’s mission is to reach out to others with acts of goodness and kindness. We’re a

community-based nonprofit organization whose efforts are rooted in traditional Jewish values — and many of our programs help the

needy regardless of background or belief.

Chabad came to California four decades ago, and now runs the largest network of educational and nonsectarian social services under

Jewish auspices on the West Coast. In addition to our network of more than 200 local Community Centers, we operate more than 25 elementary

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Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth

Since the late nineteenth century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the dynamics of this bitter conflict, rarely has an archeology of the mind of those who reside within the matrix of conflict been attempted. This book not only offers a psychological analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche, it develops an innovative, compelling, and cross-disciplinary argument about the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction. But the book pushes boundaries further through an analysis of two peace education programs designed to fundamentally alter the nature of young Israeli and Palestinian life stories. Hammack argues that these popular interventions, rooted in the idea of prejudice reduction through contact and the cultivation of ‘cosmopolitan’ identities, are fundamentally flawed due to their refusal to deal with the actual political reality of young Israeli and Palestinian lives and their attempt to construct an alternative narrative of great hope but little resonance for Israelis and Palestinians. Grounded in over a century of literature that spans the social sciences, Hammack’s analysis of young Israeli and Palestinian lives captures the complex, dynamic relationship among politics, history, and identity and offers a provocative and audacious proposal for psychology and peace education. » Read more: Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth

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