DOLEV-DuSiah L'Mehanhim L'am Yehudi – Dialogue for Educators of the Jewish People, is a joint project between Jewish Educational Services of Atlanta and Project Oren in Israel. It was conceived by the directors of each agency, Janice Alper in Atlanta and Roberta Bell-Kligler in Israel. The program is intended to serve as a professional development opportunity for personnel in congregational schools in Atlanta and schools in Atlanta's Partnership region, Yokneam/Megiddo. It is anticipated that over the course of two years, the group will meet via video conference on a regular basis, exchange information through e-mail, phone and fax and have reciprocal visits to each area.

In the first meeting, the teachers and educational directors from five Atlanta congregations and the Community Hebrew School in Chattanooga brought visuals to show the 18 teachers, educational leaders and parents from three schools in Yokneam/Megiddo, Atlanta's Partnership 2000 region in Israel. However, because of a snowstorm throughout much of the East Coast of the United States, the conference was held via telephone. During the group's second meeting, the educators divided into small groups over the phone and discussed issues of bonding as Jewish communities.

Leigh Diamond, a kindergarten teacher at The Temple, then described her presentation. She had two clear glasses of water and two eggs. She broke one egg into one glass of water and it became mottled and cloudy; she placed the other egg carefully in the other glass. She told the Israeli/American participants that this was a metaphor for the fragility of the Jewish people.

Funded by a grant from the Kerri and Jeffrey Snow Family Foundation and the Partnership 2000 Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the program was made available to local congregations who were willing to form a team of four or five people, including the education director, for two years of participation. Five local congregations, Congregation Beth Shalom, The Temple, Temple Sinai, Congregation Etz Chaim and Temple Beth Tikvah, plus Chattanooga Community High School, signed on to the program.

The Israeli schools participating in DOLEV are: Omarim and Tichon Azori, both in Megiddo, and ORT in Yokneam.

Laura Kindler, Israeli representative for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, said after the initial meeting, "It was clear to all the members on both sides of the ocean that ‘We are One.' Neither the distance nor the technology breakdown could keep us apart. There were, during the course of the nearly two-hour session, both tears and laughter. The bonding was immediate; the support was mutual."