JEWISH PAST AND PRESENT

Invisible Jews Around (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Anka Grupinska, author and director of the project "Witness of the Jewish Century" in Poland [Warsaw]

The Only Three Males of My Jewish Family Saved From Being Forgotten (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Malgorzata Rittersschild, painter and Jewish family archivist [Warsaw]

Jewish Conspiracies in Polish Society - A Never Ending Story (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Dr. Bozena Uminska, poet, writer and publicist [Warsaw]

JUSTICE

The Hidden Encounter: Destitute Women and Shari'a Judges in the Jaffa Ottoman Court (BM12)
Iris Agmon, senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University. She specializes in socio-legal history of the Ottoman Empire. Her book (on Jaffa and Haifa), "Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine", has received the Tel-Aviv prize for Research in Middle Eastern Studies in 2006. She is one of the founders of the Forum for the Protection of Public Education. [Tel Aviv]

On the Cruelty of Not Being Able to Become Anything (BM10)
Ute Bock, educator, refugee aid worker, responsible for more than 350 persons seeking asylum in Vienna, UNHCR Refugee Award, Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights, Dr. Karl Renner Award, first winner of the Ute Bock Award for Civil Courage (2000) named after her [Vienna]

1) When the State is your Roommate - the Tragic Case of a Jaffa Family
2) The Jewish National Fund and I: The Story of the Abu Rayeh Family (BM12)
Hicham Chabaita, attorney and activist. He is a member of the Legal Clinic for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University, and is active at The Popular Committee for Land and Housing Rights in Jaffa. He led the struggle against turning Jaffa neighborhoods into closed "gated communities." [Tel Aviv]

The Arab Orthodox Communities vs. The Orthodox Easter Patriarchate of Jerusalem (BM12)
Peter Habash, optometrist, born in 1958, and former chairman of the Orthodox Association for Charity in Jaffa, currently its vice-chairman. He has owned his optometry business in Jaffa for 22 years. He teaches optometry at Bar-Ilan University, and heads the legal battle between the Arab Orthodox community and the Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. [Tel Aviv]

Arab Women and the Israeli Judicial System (BM12)
Rabie Jabaly, lawyer and social activist. She works in the legal system, focusing on women's issues, and researching the Court's attitude toward murders that are commonly referred to as "Honor Killings". [Tel Aviv]

The Approach to Justice in Everyday Politics (BM10)
Mag. Martin Kreutner, MSc, head of the Office of Internal Affairs (BIA) of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior [Vienna]

How Much Law Costs (BM10)
Dr. Gabriel Lansky, lawyer at Lansky, Ganzger & Partner Lawyers ltd, fields of expertise: business law, international transactions, human rights [Vienna]

Social Injustice - Curse or Blessing? (BM10)
Dr. Nora Pester, political scientist, head of press and marketing of ZOOM Children's Museum, many years of work in publishing [Vienna]

The Egg Case - On Discrimination and the Rights to Cultivate Eggs in Israel (BM12)
Sawsan Zaher, advocate, specializing in social and economic rights, working with "Adalah" since 2005. She established and coordinated the legal department for Arab women's rights in "Kayan" - Feminist Organization. She is an activist in feminist and human rights organizations. [Tel Aviv]