A unique group consisting of 220 Jewish, Arab, Druze, Bedouin and Christians teenagers is expected to visit Nazi concentration camps in Poland later this month.
The participants are all students at Amal high schools across Israel. The trip will be held under the banner, “We are all part of same human fabric.”
Amal Group Director Shimon Cohen wrote a letter to the students, asking them to bring with them on their journey not just food and clothing but also patience, openness and attentiveness.
The group decided to allow the students to experience both the suffering the Jewish people have gone through and the pain caused to other nations and religions in an attempt to acknowledge “the other”.
Many Amal schools are taking part in the special mission, including those in Shefaram, Rahat, Dimona, Hadera, Ofakim, and Kiryat Malakhi. Each student will pay roughly NIS 5,000 ($1,360) for the trip, part of which will be subsidized by Amal and the Education Ministry.
Throughout their visit, the students will be divided into integrated groups consisting of Arab, Hebrew and English speakers.
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3 Responses
what will this gain?
I was told in seminary that there is a real chilukei dayos on whether it is wise to constantly emphasize to the goyim and remind them of the tzaros that the Yidden went through during the Holocaust. There is limited value to all of those Holocaust museums.
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Maybe, just maybe, these young people will grow up to be more understanding of, and civilized toward, each other than we have been. Your question exemplifies the problem.