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World Renowned Children’s Art Exhibit to Visit
Charlotte
Children of Jerusalem: Painting
Pain, Dreaming Peace
learning, inspire reflection
and create dialogue between
the different faiths. Our first
community lecture on March
9 will focus on the .sharing
and understanding of painful
experiences of the other by
listening to the personal sto
ries of parents who have lost
children* in the conflict. We
will then partner with
Chocolate Bullets, Michal Patlas.. ten years old Mecklenburg Ministries to
(Israeli)
If a picture says a thou
sand words, then this pow
erful new art exhibit debut
ing March 9 at ImaginOn:
The Joe & Joan Martin
Center, could fill volumes.
This collection of 61
paintings is a culmination of
a three-year multicultural
project initiated by child
Holocaust survivor Kitty O.
Cohen, chair of the Institute
for the Study of Religions
and Communities in Israel.
Cohen initiated the collabora
tive arts program in the wake of
the Second Intifada, a
Palestinian uprising largely cen
tered in Jerusalem, where chil
dren were exposed to almost
daily violence and bloodshed.
Cohen organized workshops for
50 elementary-school children
ages 9-12 with Israeli and
Palestinian art teachers in West
and East Jerusalem, respective
ly. At first the children were
encouraged to express
their fears through art. In
the second stage, they
invited the children to
work together to imagine a
better future, a place
where peace would
become an everyday part
of life. Exhibited chrono
logically, “Children of
Jerusalem” maps a jour
ney from alienation and Freedom, Firas Al-Halawani, eleven years old
fear to friendship and hope (Palestinian)
for peace.
This remarkable display of
art by Israeli and Palestinian
children was launched to inter
national acclaim in Jerusalem
before travelling to Geneva,
London’s House of Commons,
San Francisco, Savannah GA,
and now Charlotte. Initiated by
Temple Beth El in honor of
Israel’s 60th anniversary, bring
ing the exhibit to Charlotte soon
became a groundbreaking col
laboration of many cultural and
religious institutions, including
Mecklenburg Ministries,
Charlotte Coalition for Social
Justice, Temple Beth El, Israel at
60, Temple Israel, Palestinian
Advisors to the Project,
ImaginOn: The Joan & Joe
Martin Center, Children’s
Theatre of Charlotte, and The
Public Library of Charlotte &
Mecklenburg County. Funding
provided by the Knight
Foundation.
This collaboration clearly
demonstrates how the model
used in the “Children of
Jerusalem” art exhibit can apply
to our own Charlotte interfaith
community. Lectures and com
munity conversations will spark
reflect on religious issues in
Charlotte. Religious leaders
from the three Abrahamic faiths
of Charlotte will address: “What
is the Status in Our Community:
Religious Antagonism, Religious
Acceptance, or Religious
Appreciation?”
The exhibit “Children of
Jemsalem” brings forth the chil
dren’s message: “No to vio
lence, yes to peace.” May it be
heard loud and clear, in Israel
and in our own Charlotte com
munity. You are invited to sec
the children of Jerusalem’s
work and listen to their voices.
The exhibit will be free and
open to the public March 9-
May 15 at ImaginOn: The Joe
& Joan Martin Center, 300 East
7th street.
For more infonnation go to
www.imaginon.org/indcx.asp
or www.Jewishcharlotte.org.
JEWISH^
FEDE^RATION$
OF GneATER CHARLOTTE
Local, Global, Eternal
The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2008 - Page 5
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Letter from Zeev
Bielski
(Continued from page 3)
between your community and
the Jewish Agency. I would like
to thank you especially for your
activity in P2K with the city of
Hadera which includes cooper
ation in different activities such
as education projects) absorp
tion of Ethiopian Jews,
strengthening the city, camp
“Tikkun 01am,” the joint
women delegation to Poland,
the joint bike trip, the visit of
■ the teachers delegation from
Hadera and the establishment
of the business women’s forum.
Your important contribution
to Maxam in Hadera has great
importance as it gives children
of olim from Ethiopia the
opportunity to make the most of
their talents and capabilities,
strengthen their self confidence
and enables them to find their
place in society.
Your partnership with the
City of Hadera has great value
to the residents of Hadera and
to the Jewish community of
Charlotte. I hope that the effort
to establish an alliance between
the two cities will bear fruit and
stregthen the relationship.
I thank you for your cooper
ation and send my warm wish
es and deep appreciation to the
leaders of the community, its
donors and members for the
commitment and devotion to
the Jewish People and the State
of Israel.
Sincerely,
Zeev Bielski
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