It’s well known that I like to collect fascinating stories for our website section about activist women promoting a shared life, so here’s an amazing story for you. “We must be prepared to act as a balm for many wounds”…
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What is the month of Ramadan – an explanation from the Eureka site, also photos of items from the National Library’s Islam and Middle East collection can be found here. Educational initiatives concerning the month of Ramadan are on our…
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I met Sharon Ashkenazi through her wonderful project team here in Israel. Oren Cnaan contacted me a while ago to add their organization, Israeli Salad to our organization database (run voluntarily by our dear Dan Noam). During my conversation with…
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Katef Murad Salame began her academic career at the Beit Jann Comprehensive High School, known as the top school in Israel for Bagrut (matriculation tests) eligibility, and continued as a student of communication studies. Later, (20 years ago), she began…
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When was the last time you thought about International Women’s Day, the successful women in Arab society and the women who advance a shared life? Outstanding Arab women who have ‘made it’, as well as Arab and Jewish women working…
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I’ve recently come across a program that resembles a student exchange program, but different. This program has special ideas and a very special connection. It’s intended for students from conflict or post-conflict affected countries from all over the world who…
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I’d met Tamar Verete-Zahavi on various occasions and thought that her story should be told, or at least ‘choice parts of it’ on this blog. Tamar is so humble, but her influence can be felt on a large group of…
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Following is a list of information sources on this tragic, historic, inaugural milestone that we would expect to affect political and other decision making in our lives here today. Having an open discussion with Jews, Arabs, Christians and other minorities…
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After creating the blog and growing it into a website encompassing a wealth of information to do with the connections between Arabs and Jews, I am constantly being contacted about dialog, partnership, initiatives and connections. It warms the heart, but…
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Arabic courses – anyone interested in developing a shared life among neighbors knows that this must include the ability to communicate. And there’s nothing like the ability to communicate in the language of your partners to this discussion, especially when…
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