RELIGION: While hatred brews in Holy Land, Brooklyn’s Jews and Arabs interact through dialogue and gardening
The peace-building work of The Dialogue Project here in Brooklyn — especially its new youth corps — becomes even more crucial amid breaking news on Monday about the arrest of Israeli teens, one as young as 13, who had assaulted a group of Palestinians last week in West Jerusalem.
New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner, in an article published online late Monday, pointed out, “The attack, described by one witness as a ‘lynch,’ has laid bare the undercurrent of Jewish-Arab tensions that plague this mixed but politically divided city and that is leading many Israelis to question how their society could have come to this.”
The attacks in Jerusalem underscore the need for building cultural gardens here.