By Dr. Yehuda Stolov | Executive Director
Bethlehem, December 13th 2013
The Interfaith Visits group, together with the Mt. Scopus Students group, met to visit Bethlehem before Christmas.
We were four Israelis and two Palestinians who met at the Rachel check-point and drove together to the Nativity Church plaza. We set in a café and spoke about Christmas and other issues.
We began by introducing ourselves and continued talking about the snow and how we coped with it. We spoke about Christmas, even though we were only Jews and Muslims, unfortunately without Christians this time. We held a short visit to the plaza, including a visit to an exhibition in the Peace Center, with impressive political exhibits.
January 27th 2014
The people of the Interfaith Visits group met at Netta's home in Jerusalem to watch a documentary dealing with the big fire on the Carmel and with a Palestinian team of fire fighters that came to help.
Most of the people were new – some knew each other from before and some didn't. they were of all ages – from a 4-year old kid to a 60-year old woman…
The 42-minute film was not easy to watch. We held a discussion with the film producers, from the Palestinian news agency Ma'an and the organization Search for Common Ground. Among the questions that came up were: is the film biased to one of the sides? Does it present the variety of views about what happened with the fire or only a particular view? How would we act in such a situation?
It was a very successful encounter and we very much want to invite the new people to join other encounters of the group!
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