Kids know: Time for peace
Shalom. A one-word Hebrew prayer meaning peace. That’s even if the adults can’t bring it about in the Middle East. Maybe some day — soon day — it may come out of the mouth of babes.
Long back a first attempt to join Arab and Israeli children — from both sides of the border — resulted in 105 original paintings. It brought in 105 original canvasses. All had one theme — brotherhood.
How do I know? I reported on it in 1968. The then-international chairman of the Cultural Center for Youth in Jerusalem — named Dorothy Silverstein — explained it to me: “Arab and Israeli children were thrown together in shelters during the Six-Day War. Immediately after, August 1967, Israel’s minister of education conceived the idea for these future world leaders to then sit side by side in an atmosphere of love.
“Museums in