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tolerance, co-existence and respect,
similar to those in the Israel education
system."
The program began in May at
Akiva Hebrew Day School in Lathrup
Village, where the high school stu-
dents created a patchwork quilt with
their letters as part of a Lag b' Omer
color war. Another 120 students from
Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield added their letters to the

liAr by do you hate me? Why
do you want<to kill me
and give up your life to
do it? I don't hate you.
And I don't want to kill you. All I
want is to have peace."
These are the words of 12-year-old
Aliza, a camper at
Camp Morasha in
upstate New York.
Her letter, and
those of some
2,000 other Jewish
children attending
American summer
camps and religious
schools, are being
gathered into peace
quilts — part of
the Kids for Peace
campaign of
MATCKH
(Mothers Against
Teaching Children
to Kill and Hate).
Founded in
1998 by a group of
women from
Bloomfield Hills,
West Bloomfield,
Southfield and Oak
Park, MATCKH •
aims to effect
change in what the
Molly Resnick displays a peace quilt.
group describes as
the anti-Jewish and
anti-Israeli bias of
quilt, as did kids attending Jewish day
the Arab 'Palestinian school curricu-
schools and camps in Pennsylvania,
lum, including history, grammar
New Jersey and New York.
lessons and basic language.
Two quilts were created Aug. 2 by
Noting the cancellation of a televi-
400 Camp Maas campers ; following
sion show featuring aspiring jihad sui-
Resnick's visit to the Ortonville site.
cide warriors, MATCKH founder
Resnick says MATCKH has plans to
Molly Resnick said, "The effort to
visit schools in Detroit, Ohio, New
draw attention to the violent nature of
Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
the Arab Palestinian educational sys-
"We plan to take our peace quilts
tem has already had some success."
to Washington and to ask our
The Kids for Peace letter-writing
Michigan senators and congressmen to
campaign urges Arab Palestinian chil-
help us display them at the Capitol,"
dren to reject hate-filled violent mes-
Resnick said. Referring to her group's
sages they hear and read in school.
opposition
to the Arab Palestinian
Resnick says, "We're encouraging their
school system, she added, "We won't
children to demand that their school
stop until they stop."
textbooks be recycled into books of