By Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam | Director
Sometimes, the best information about a program is found in the voices of the participants themselves. We hope to have raised sufficient funds to hold our next multi-day Masa/Masar soon, as the conflict continues to give evidence of the need for this program. So, while we prepare for the coming one, we want you to get a sense of the ‘Journey” (Masa/Masar) program in the participant’s own words.
https://youtu.be/rc8efuLQHNc
But, while we wait, the Spiritual Center and its Peace Museum have been busy Breaking Down Borders through public multicultural and multi-faith programs like the one on the Shoah, the Rebirth and the Nakba where borders are taken down as participants learn from one another and see through the eyes of the other. On November 18 the Museum and Pluralistic Spiritual Center held the third in the Peace Museum’s project: "Remembering the Righteous," honoring those who acted in different places, all over the world, to save the lives of others.
The first two programs explored the holocaust and the Armenian genocide, remembering the righteous and sharing stories of heroism. The most recent program focused on the topic of Palestinians who saved Jews during the events of 1929. Avraham (Avrum) Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency, shared the story of his mother and her family, who were saved by a Palestinian family’s heroism during the Hebron massacre.
We look forward, soon, to being able to engage another several dozen Israeli Palestinian and Jewish young adults in breaking down their borders and helping to transform the conflict person by person, family by family.
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