International Student Advisory Board
The mission of the International Student Advisory Board is to promote global awareness and understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust by organizing yearly trips to Poland to visit concentration camps. 
As an international organization catering to students from around the world, our goal is to educate and inspire the next generation to combat racism, prejudice, and discrimination in all its forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment that fosters learning, empathy, and respect for all cultures and backgrounds.
As a subsidiary of the Jewish Student Information Center of Israel, we are dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and ensuring that its lessons are never forgotten. Through our work, we aim to empower young leaders to become advocates for social justice and to promote a world where all people can live free from persecution and oppression.
Dalia Lieberman, originally from Long Island, NY is currently majoring in psychology, with a minor in health, medicine, and society at Lehigh University. She is dedicated to Mental Health Awareness. On her semester abroad at the IES Barcelona International Program, she met Jeff and attended his Spring 2023 Poland Mission.
Katey Goldman, originally from Deerfield, Illinois, currently attends Wisconsin University. After becoming a Sinai Scholar at her university Chabad, she was inspired to attend the Jeff Seidel Spring 2023 Poland Mission while on her junior semester abroad at the IES Barcelona program.
Shaylee Roth, originally from Highland Park, Illinois and currently attends Wisconsin University. During her junior year semester abroad she participated in the Jeff Seidel Spring 2023 Poland Mission.
Rebecca Radis, originally from Deerfield, Illinois, currently attends Indiana University. After spending a summer internship on Onward Israel in Tel Aviv where she met Jeff, she was inspired to participate in our Spring 2023 Poland Mission while spending her junior year abroad semester in the Barcelona/IES International program.
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
