One Student To Another

.

In addition to traveling and
meeting with other youth, the
students caught a glimpse of
Middle Eastern politics.
"I didn't really understand the
problem going on between Jews
and Arabs," Mr. Kuhn says.
"Both claim that it's their
land," Miss Mitchell adds.
Mr. Kuhn notes that it was
"kind of tense between the two
mother says Andrea has ma-
communities. "You could tell
tured since the trip, and "I'm re-
there were problems."
ally enjoying my church now,"
"When I went to a Jewish
Andrea says.
school, the students said, 'Arabs
The American teen-agers met
don't like us,"' Ms. Mitchell says.
with Israeli and Arab youth, at-
"When I went to an Arab school,
tended schools in Israel, toured Mark B. Sperling: Committed to kids.
the students said, 'Jews don't
popular historical sites and
stayed a few nights with host if I play basketball," says Mr. like us.' I thought, 'Well, maybe
Kuhn, who does not shoot hoops. you need to sit down and have a
families.
Upon returning to the States, little talk."'
As black Americans, the De-
Mostly, the Israeli students
troit youngsters ran up against he found that American teens
some stereotypes — which they also hold stereotypical views of wanted to know what American
Israelis.
teens do for fun, whether they
quickly dispelled.
Cass Tech classmates asked if date and if they listen to rap mu-
Sometimes, Israeli youngsters
would stare at the teens, says everybody in Israel rides camels sic. They found that regardless
Mr. Kuhn, knowing they were and whether the girls cover their of where they call home, teens
not Ethiopian and not Israeli. He faces (a Muslim tradition), Mr. are pretty much the same.
"They hung out, had problems
and his friends would simply Kuhn recalls. Miss Mitchell says
her friends asked if she saw "a with each other just like we do,"
stare right back.
"In every class, students asked lot of killing, murder" in the Mid-
STUDENT page 18
dle East.

Detroit teens dispel myths about African-Americans on a youth ambassador
exchange program in Israel.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER

B

efore last month, David
Kuhn had never been on
an airplane. In fact, he
hadn't traveled far out of
the Midwest.
But the 11th-grader at Cass
Technical High School in Detroit
says his recent flight to Israel
was quite a thrill — especially
the turbulence.
Mr. Kuhn was one of five De-
troit high-school students, and
72 altogether, who traveled to Is-
rael on the 19th national Youth
Ambassadors Program, spon-
sored by the America-Israel
Friendship League. Based in
New York, the league is a non-
political, nonprofit agency whose
focus is to strengthen the U.S.-
Israel relationship on a grass-

roots level.
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil secured sponsors and $2,000
apiece from corporations and in-
dividuals for the five African-
American students from Detroit.
The remaining 67 students
came from 13 other U.S. school
districts. Three of the 72 teens
are Jewish.
Andrea Mitchell, a 16-year-old
Cass Tech junior, liked Haifa the
best of the cities she visited. The
trip had a profound effect on An-
drea, whose faith in Jesus deep-
ened during the journey.
"I got saved, finally accepting
Jesus," thanks largely to a group
of devout Christian teens from
Dayton, Ohio, with whom she
prayed during the trip. Her

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