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Dear friends,
The summer has flown away and here we are, dear friends, to share with you
the memories, the efforts and achievements of Beresheet LaShalom:
The end of school year holidays, our Soccer team's trip to Italy, the Italian
Children's Camp in Israel and the preparation of the
new multi-cultural group of Beresheet LaShalom - the Volunteers of Mount Meron - girls and boys aged 18,
from all cultures of the Galilee,
who will devote a year to our educational activities, have absorbed much of our
time.
June 2008
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16/6 Workshop with the Rainbow Group
exploring "The Five Rhythms" with Aviya Reches.
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16/6 Evening meeting and workshop led by Edna and Yehuda,
with members of Beresheet LaShalom Theatre Namir - [over 18] with
fifteen Young Leadership Americans from the Jewish Community of New York -
entitled: "The society in which I live." Followed by a cosy
late evening together around a bonfire dinner. |
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Performance of "Beresheet" at the pool
side of Kibbuz Gazit. |
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25/6 End of school year show at the Wilkomich School of Rosh Pinna -
entitled:
"In
search of a dream: 60 years of Israel". |
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26/6 End of school year show with the disabled
members of Edna's Tellem Drama Group at Shomera.
Everyone turned up for a last "group finale" - and they all look forward
to continuing this workshop next term. WE NEED HELP TO MAKE THIS
HAPPEN !!! |
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27/6 End of school year show of the
children's group of the Arcobaleo-Rainbow with their parents in Sasa.
Everybody enjoyed themselves. |
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30/6 End of school year performance with the
teenage group of the Arcobaleo-Rainbow Theatre and their parents, at Sasa.
A wonderful evening, where we savoured the delights of all the
specialities that our mixed cultural group of mothers prepared in honour
of the performance at this lovely get-together! |
July 2008
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The Beresheet
LaShalom Soccer Team - "United Colours of Galilee"
- journey to Italy for the third year running to participate in the
International A5 Youth Soccer Games in Friuli - CONOSCIAMOCI 2008
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www.unitedcoloursofgalilee.com
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Annual Italian Summer Camp in Israel in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute
of Tel Aviv. |
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Italian TV interview with Marina Gershony -
television director and
journalist of Elle. |
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Summer Reunion organized by the youngsters of the Arcobaleno-Rainbow
Theatre. |
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Meeting with the Volunteers of Garin Har Meron, the Beresheet
LaShalom Multi-Cultural Youth Leadership Hub, together with representatives of Spni
and representatives of the Shlomit Foundation for implementing the
Shnat Sherut project: Mitnadvim I Beresheet - Volunteers from the
Beginning. |
August 2008
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Performance of Beresheet at Leo
Beck Theatre in Haifa for 120 Jewish and Arab children in a summer
colony of Haifa Municipality. |
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17/8 Official opening of
PROJECT HAR MERON with 11 volunteers, 18
years of age, from various cultures, that will dedicate themselves for one year
to Educating to dialogue, mediating differences and unveiling common values. |
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Meeting of the members of
Garin Har Meron with Italian volunteers active
in
the village of Fassuta. |
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Activities with 60 youths in the Arab town of Shfaram: art workshops,
dance and theatre run by the Mount Meron Group. |
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25/8 Participation of children in the show Beresheet at
the "Meeting of
Animators from across the Galilee", together with their families (1200 persons) at Monfort
Lake, near the town of Maalot. |
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Assembly with the parents of our
Volunteers at Mount Meron.
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HOW ARE OUR NEW VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE AT OUR MOUNT MERON PROJECT
GARIN HAR MERON - BERESHEET LASHALOM DOING?
For now, after the first week, really great!
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The performance Beresheet, renewed and enriched with new experiences,
is ready. |
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Their house almost all ready, equipped and renovated (they are very good and
have hands of gold). |
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They have already visited and received the Mayor of Hurfeish, Rehania today
Avivim, Alma and Kadita. During this week they will visit places and get to know the
youths with whom they will work with in formal and informal education in the next
year with
Beresheet LaShalom. |
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They cleared a creek and had a lesson in ecology. |
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They made their first entree with educational activities
at a camp of 40 Arabs youths from Shfaraam who were guests at the hostel of Mount Meron.
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They got organized and divided their tasks:
who is in the kitchen, who purchases, whose cleaning shift, who wakes up and organizes.
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They decided that in respect of the Druze and Muslim girls
they will not call themselves a Commune, due to negative connotations in their culture, but CASA.
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They have already received great sympathy and enthusiasm the young Chairman
of the Board of Sansepolcro - Gianluca Enzo Buono, another charming young
lady from Milan, specialising in 'Pedagogical Consulting and
Educational Research' - Leslie Franco: today they shall meet the journalist Anna Rolli of
Quaderni Radicals . Tonight will meet with a group of Italian volunteers of
the International Co-operation, guests in the village of Fassuta. |
Now we will work on the IMAGE OF THE EDUCATOR:
important decisions such as personal responsibility, creativity,
participation [ smoking, alcohol, narghile', communal cash flow ... "to be an example
to others I must begin from myself" ]
Just to give an idea of what we've been up to this summer. . .
we look forward to bringing you more exciting developments.
A big thank you to all our friends, supporters and
sponsors who help us to make this keep happening!
Angelica & everyone at
Beresheet LaShalom.
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