For a full year the "Zhambyl Regional Jewish Cultural Center" Public Association has been taking an active part in the international dialogue which is organized by representatives of the Jewish open channel and website “Good environment”.

The cities of Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Lithuania have communicated via the Internet. Topics of discussions relate to family values, spiritual and cultural traditions, and education of youth. The video teleconference from St. Petersburg was broadcast on all channels, spread to the Internet and was accessible to everyone. The dialogue participants were the Jewish Community of Astana, Chelyabinsk, Taraz, Krasnoyarsk and other cities. Guests of the improvised studio at school No 2 of Taraz city were members of the youth branch of the Council of Mothers and Council of Elders of the Jewish Ethno-Cultural Association and invited teachers and psychologists of the city schools.

At this time the website moderators Kulagina Xenia and Murtazin Ruslan offered participants a new topic - talk about the music of the spiritual worlds through the prism of Judaism.

The lecturer of Israeli, musician, soloist of the Israeli Opera, David Grove said that music accompanied the Jews always songs were sing and at holidays and Sabbat. “But among them there are special melodies written by Jewish sage and philosopher, known under the name of Baal Sulla. These melodies Nigun are not like the others in their performance even in modern processing. This music is like talking to a soul, makes you think and rethink many things," - said David Grove.

The audience really froze and concentrated when on the video the duet of musicians began to play the guitar and bassoon "Nigun hamol", "Kriguli", "Azamer meshet". It was an unusual tubular and melodic sound with finger style.

Then, moderators conducted a kind of training, bringing together the teleconference participants. The atmosphere in the audience started changing in a quite noticeable way; people did not just express their opinions, but became more open, discussed, joked, and openly defended their position in the open channel in the Internet space. The answers were different, sometimes much unexpected, but in the end all the participants of the spiritual meridian from Krasnoyarsk to St Petersburg agreed on one thing: yes, we are different, but we have the same core values.

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