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 MicahsCall.org was pleased to receive a copy of this amazing DVD from the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group of San Mateo County. "As a Jew," Craig Wiesner, President of MicahsCall.org said, "it has always amazed me how I can talk to my Jewish friends about any subject, even if we disagree. But, start to talk about Israel / Palestine and conversation can be very difficult."
What this DVD models is how people who have vastly different experiences can listen to each other and hear each other's humanity through their stories. And through story-telling and truly listening, enemies can become friends.
After hearing stories from two of the members of the Jewish / Palestinian Dialogue Group, the young men and women of this Fremont California High School break into pairs and start sharing their own stories. Although many of these kids had sat together or had been friends for years, this for many was the first time they ever truly learned something special about each other.
We at MicahsCall.org is incredibly grateful to the dialogue group for creating this DVD and especially for offering it to the world for free.
Below is the way the dialogue group advertises the DVD. Please, order a copy! And please, consider helping that group distribute the DVD far and wide and create more content like this!
DIALOGUE AT
WASHINGTON HIGH
 Fifty 10th grade students become more human and grow closer in their California classroom. In pairs, they learn to tell their personal stories, uninterrupted and heard with a new quality of deep listening for the sake of learning. In the beginning, a Palestinian and a Jew from a local 13-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue serve as exemplars by telling their own stirring personal narratives, and reflecting back to each other.
The students reveal their hopeful amazement at having experienced a new way of communication for life.
The 43-minute film is a perfect tool to help students begin to dispel incorrect stereotypes and assumptions about the “other,” freeing their energy for better learning and building healthy relationships together. Although the exemplars focus on the Palestinian-Jewish relationship, the principles demonstrated in this film are universal and for all ages and places.
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