by Bill Strubbe
Road to Recovery believes that peace among Israelis
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and Palestinians can only come about through engagement and personal involvement, placing humanity before politics. It is an act of reconciliation instead of revenge.Read all about it here.
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by Erez Speiser
Erez Speiser has created an English language website
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where he puts all his skill and passion for hiking nature trails into creating practical, high quality information on the topic and spreading it to foreign tourists.
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by Anthony Green
Anthony photographed the armored vehicles on parade
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at the Museum of Golani Division Heroism in the Northern Galilee. He says that a lick of paint and some maintenance wouldn’t go amiss as a tribute to those magnificent men and their fighting machines.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Israeli ceramics artist Tsamerit Zamir, lives in Moshav
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Netiv HaAsara near the concrete wall between Israeli communities and the Palestinian residents of Gaza. She combined her ceramic talents and wish for a more peaceful existence for all the people of the region in her work. On a portion of the wall – in clear view of Gazans – thousands of brightly colored tiles spell out peace
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by Bill Strubbe
On Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, Micah and Ayelet run a business
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making prayer wheels. “Making prayer wheels is among the holiest thing a Buddhist can do; its purpose is to spread joy, love and compassion,” Micah explains. The prayer wheels apply to all faiths.
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by Sara Groundland
Sara reports on a very successful ESRA visit to the
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Israel Museum where they visited the historical Israeli fashion exhibition, the exhibition of avant garde Russian artists, and the exhibition of Maimonides's original documents
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by Lydia Aisenberg
An old truck on wooden blocks is parked in Jaffa Road,
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opposite the main entrance to Mahanei Yehuda market in Jerusalem. It is an advertising office giving out information promoting Jerusalem to tourists. Lydia lists the most interesting spots to visit along the Jaffa Road, that are listed in the brochures.
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by Shashi Ishai
Shashi's visit to the Israel Dog Unit, where dogs are
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trained for the IDF and police for search and rescue and anti-terrorism missions, was an eye-opener. After watching a training session, she went home feeling nothing but admiration for the dedicated trainers, some volunteers, who are on call 24/7.
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by Carol Elias
A heartbreaking story of two young children who miraculously
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survived horrific
circumstances in a little known tangent of the story of the Holocaust.
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by Susan Zaidel
At a conference on Innovations in Conflict Resolution,
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Susan Zaidel attended sessions pertaining to Israel and its neighbors, which stressed civil projects and actions to bring people together. There are many such projects. It is important not to stand idly by, but to actively seek peace, she believes.
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by Marion Stone
ESRA Modiin hosted two speakers, Mark Simon and Joe
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Serkin, who volunteer for search and rescue organizations here and abroad. They both gave insights to what is involved and the amount of work that is done for people who find themselves in vulnerable situations, often through no fault of their own.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Ethiopia Street is in the heart of Jerusalem, writes
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Lydia Aisenberg, who proceeds to tell us about the "fascinating buildings created in the 1880s", including an impressive silver domed circular Ethiopian church". She also tells of Ben-Yehuda, who lived here and is considered the father of modern spoken Hebrew
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by Andee Goldman
During the September 11 attacks, 2,977 people were
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killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) and more than 6,000 others were injured. Israel’s 9/11 memorial took place on September 6. Among the speakers was Rina Kaufman, whose brother Leon Lebor was among those who perished in the attack.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Students on the Birthright-Plus program learned about
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three communities: Kibbutz Metzer, the neighboring Arab village of Meiser and the Palestinian village of Kafin, and about the delicate balancing act between them on both sides of the Green Line.
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