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Religious figures as marriage counselors.
The marriage of religious authorities and… marriage. Does it work? Does it help? Does it hurt? Assuming you are a religious person, and adhere/subscribe to one way of life, then yes, why shouldn’t religious authorities help guide you in s...
Bridging with sports… as usual.
Just because I enjoy watching the efforts to bridge peoples with sports - especially children - here is yet another attempt, this time by the Peres Center for Peace and the NBA: NBA’s only Jewish player in Israel for visit As guest of Peres Ce...
The Valley of Peace initiative, in case you haven’t heard.
A friend of mine sent me this video detailing the architectural plans for the Valley of Peace initiative in the desert area between Jordan, Israel and the West Bank. It’s a plan that has captured the imagination and support of Israeli President...
Beauty in the eye of the be-hind.
On the lighter side of the law… I thought this article was pretty funny in its irony: Can’t show underwear law “Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that...
Making love for peace.
Hmm. We can’t always pick and choose what works… We can’t always control how conflict resolution will happen… Which is why open-mindedness is so important. I present this: Make love not war: Israeli adult Web site promotes re...
Some things just can’t be mediated.
I consider myself a realist who dabbles often in optimism. I do like to think that more often than not, a family can be transformed if all participants are willing to submit to their own self determination. However this is the most horrific, psychoti...
Turning ‘child labor’ into productive fun.
Back in February, I wrote about PlayPumps International, a water pump built like a playground toy so that while kids play they are pumping fresh water for their villages. Well, I just found two more kids’ toys engineered for productive (and fun...
New Zealander prisoners and restorative justice.
A recent mediator blah… blah… blog post title caught my eye; apparently there is a demand in New Zealand for conducting restorative justice for prisoners and their victims, two-thirds of which is on the part of the prisoners. I found this...
Arabs paint mosque blue and white for Israel’s 60th.
No, this is not a leftover April Fools’ Day joke: Galilee Arabs paint mosque blue and white for Israel’s 60th In an unusual gesture of solidarity for Israel’s 60th anniversary, villagers in one Arab-Israeli town have have painted ...
Is there really a ’separate but equal’?
So much for optimism in the midst of tragedy. I just found this article on Ynet news: Poll: 51% of Israelis want separate secular, religious neighborhoods A majority of the Israeli public believes religious families ought to live in separate neighbo...
Any partnership - however unlikely - needs communication.
Last night, Jerusalem experienced a shooting massacre by an East Jerusalem Arab resident at a religious Zionist yeshiva towards the center of the city. Eight boys, between the ages of 15-26, are dead and dozens are wounded. This was the first terror ...
Water pump + playtime = Girls’ education in Africa.
This is pretty clever: A non profit called PlayPumps International has developed an easy to build and maintain water pump system utilizing child labor in order to pump fresh water from the ground into a storage container… No, no, we’re no...
Israeli student representatives mingling in Qatar.
Here’s a little contact theory for y’all on a dreary Tuesday: Israeli, Syrian high school students meet in Qatar “A delegation of Israeli high school students attended an international convention in Qatar, simulating the United Nati...
Professor of intercivilizational conflict resolution.
A professor of mine was interviewed for a piece in the Bangkok Post. The article details Dr. Ben Mollov’s work in intercivilizational conflict resolution and conflicts in the Middle East: Working for Peace “A professor of social sciences...
PeaceMaker: The latest from the Peres Center for Peace.
Yesterday, Haaretz newspaper did a promo of the new PeaceMaker Game released by the Peres Center for Peace. It was included in the (left-wing) paper and is being sold from the game’s website for $19.95. Funny anecdote: My husband decided to buy...
Pleased to introduce Mideast Youth…
In some kind of sliver of spare time, I work with a few other administrators, writers, bloggers, and artists on a project called Mideast Youth. It’s a cyber-dialogue media center created two years ago to promote tolerance, understanding and mos...
When the mediator is fed up…
There has been a major strike here for the last three weeks by the middle and high school teachers. The strike is over pay and the kids haven’t been to school since it started. Last week I heard on the news that the mediator quit. I at once fel...
Mediation for teenage offenders?
I came across this article in Haaretz today, just after I was explaining to a colleague where mediation currently and potentially fits into Israeli society. Seems like the government has thought of one I had missed: Teenage offenders may get mediatio...
