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October 3, 2021

Undergraduates have embraced social media to take sides on Israel-Palestine. Should we?

Without the involvement of more moderate voices, more ideological and hardline opinions will continue to fill social media with antisemitic and Islamophobic content. In this highly polarized environment, a lack of investment in and preparation for political peace will lead to the failure of any political agreement or treaty, Rosenberg warned.
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September 28, 2021

Embodying Peace and WRAP: A personal re-signification in a pandemic context

The people-to people-approach of WRAP and, indeed, of EP, is effective because it is always easier to make peace between children, as they are not born to hate but are taught to hate. Hence, since WRAP works in schools, it is easier to deconstruct the idea of enmity between Arabs and Jews.
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September 27, 2021

From Student to Activist: Lessons from Closing the Gap

In May of 2021, at the end of my junior year in college, I published a book titled Closing the Gap: Sustainable Infrastructure to Save the World. Writing this book was a year’s journey of learning about one of our world’s foremost challenges: the global infrastructure gap.
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September 26, 2021

Escaping Lockdown, Pursuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: My Covid-Era Internship Experience with Peace Now

Having been raised in America by two Hebrew-speaking parents on the writings of Amos Oz, the Shir LaShalom (“A Song for Peace”), and on the legacy of pro-peace Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, I deferred my acceptance to Cornell University in 2015 to explore the barriers to Israeli-Palestinian peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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