This month's Spotlight highlights all the meaningful learning and volunteering opportunties that Jewish youth, many of them immigrants, are involved in.

Some of these youth can be found at Aba Hushi, a bustling center of Jewish Agency activity for young immigrant students in Haifa. Read about Menachem Avraham, a law student at Haifa University who volunteers in the Aba Hushi Information Center, and Svetlana, a resident of Aba Hushi, who spends most of her free time volunteering on the ambulance as she waits for the commencement of her nursing studies. Also meet Sara, a Kedma counselor who gives of her time by accompanying students through the entire grueling day. A very active Babait Bayahad  / At Home-Together  is coordinated from Aba Hushi with more volunteers working with new immigrant lone soldiers, as well as pairing up immigrant children with tutors.

Haifa isn't the only place bustling with volunteerism. There is also volunteering going on in Beer Sheva. Meet Yaacov from the Beer Sheva Nurit Absorption Center. He participates in Tnuat Aliyah's Lehavot (Firefighters), MDA, and Internship programs as well as helping Ethiopian children with their studies.

Not just Yaacov, but thousands of young Jews from around the world participate annually in the Kibbutz Ulpan and Tnuat Aliyah's MDA (Magen David Adom), Firefighters, Internship and Marva programs. Whether as new immigrants or as active committed Jews in their home countries, the volunteering experience will be a key to their future.

There are many more young immigrants to meet preparing for higher education and a productive life as Israeli citizens on such long term programs as Selah, Kedma, Aleh, Netivim, Telem, and Taka, students that still find time to volunteer. For instance, Yuri is a graduate of Selah who will soon begin studying towards a degree in industrial management in the ORT-Braude College in Karmiel. Despite his busy schedule, Yuri finds time to volunteer hours every day, teaching the new Selah students Hebrew, or going with them to the post office, bank or clinic to translate.

Among all these personal success stories, The Spotlight introduces the Iquitos Jewish community from the heart of the Amazon. and pays a tribute to Mike Rosenberg, who is leaving as Director-General after a rich and savory tenure of eight years.