Located in the capital city of New Zealand, the Wellington Jewish Community was established in 1843. This Jewish community, although small, has had it's own distinctive impact both within New Zealand and the wider Jewish world. Jews from all around the world have migrated to picturesque Wellington, and it is this diversity of people that has shaped the life of this city and it's Hebrew Congregation.

When organizations began to embrace diversity in the 1980s, many of them thought that diversity training was the answer. They thought that if every employee attended a diversity training class, biases, complaints and lawsuits would disappear and everyone would work together in harmony forever. There were two kinds of people engaged in diversity training, education and organizational development. There were those who thought of it as program or a trend.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)