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Seeds' founder Wallach agreed.
"The response has to be not to freeze, but to redou-
ble our efforts into the next generation," he said
Tuesday, as he prepared to drive a van filled with
Seeds staff members back to New York.
The young people who appeared at the gala all
attend or are preparing to attend school in the
United States, he said. So far, Seeds of Peace has pro-
vided 60 scholarships for its graduates to attend
preparatory schools and colleges in the United States.
On a political level, Wallach called the United
States "the only moral force in the world" and said
that our country's support for Israel must continue
to be unwavering.
"But's that not the whole answer," he said. "We
have to address the roots of the problem — the suf-
fering of the Palestinian people. There are a lot of
good Palestinians and bad Palestinians, just as there
are a lot of good Jews and bad Jews. The people who
killed [former Israeli Prime Minister] Yitzhak Rabin
are no better than these terrorists."
The Mission Of Seeds
Seeds of Peace camp, in Otisfield, Maine, was the
first organization in the United States to fly the
Palestinian flag alongside the Israeli flag and the
Jordanians, Egyptians, Tunisians and
Jordanian flag.
Qataris.
"The mission of Seeds of Peace is
Others come from other areas of
whatever one side demands for itself,"
conflict,
such as the Balkans, Kosovo,
Wallach said at the Seeds gala. "We
Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Greek and
believe that internationally recognized
Turkish Cyprus, Greece and Turkey.
countries should recognize one another
A few Indians and Pakistanis were
as full citizens of the civilized world."
added to the mix last summer.
The organization's masthead car-
American teens who have attend-
ries the following subtitle:
"The true success of Seeds of
ed
the camp include Ariella Lis of
"Empowering the Children of War
Peace will be seen in years to
Farmington
Hills and Daniel
to Break the Cycle of Violence."
come," said Secretary of Energy Horwitz of West Bloomfield.
At camp, young people who would
Spencer Abraham, former U.S.
Among the young speakers at the
have been on opposite sides of con-
senator from Michigan.
Monday
night gala was Mariam
flict at home find themselves singing
Bazeed
of
Egypt, who has received a
as well as crying, sharing cabins while
Seeds
scholarship
to
attend
New
York's Manhattanville
sharing anxieties. They work with a staff of highly
2002.
College
as
a
freshman
in
January
qualified facilitators in small coexistence sessions made
"For
16
years,
I
had
not
had
one
thought that was
up of young people from their region of the world.
And they do the regular camp things — play volley- actually mine. I was this female, this Egyptian, this
Muslim," she said, looking over the podium into a sea
ball, water-ski, have sing-alongs and take field trips.
of multi-ethnic faces.
Gradually, the enmity breaks down and is replaced
Then she went to Seeds of Peace camp.
by friendship.
"Just because I'm a Muslim, I don't have to agree
Today, 22 countries are involved in Seeds of Peace at
with
suicide bombings," she said. "Because of me, other
the governmental level.
people
feel they, too, can object to what's going on.
Of the roughly 1,800 teens who have attended
[Seeds
of Peace was] the best platform for me to jump
are
from
the
Middle
East.
In
Seeds camp, about 1,200
beyond myself."
addition to Israelis and Palestinians, these include
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Rallies Called Off
Stones For The Dead
IsraelNow rallies in Detroit and New York
will not be held on Sunday.
JCC creates a memorial
to fallen Americans.
In a press release, the UJC said it
had canceled the New York rally to
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respect "the need of all civilized people
to grieve and begin healing from the
n Sept. 11, four airline jets
horrific events of Tuesday, and in full
were hijacked and used as
support of law enforcement and public
jet-propelled terrorist
safety officials who are performing
weapons against targets in
their duties under extreme conditions."
New York City and Washington, D.C..
In addition, the organization, which
: With the full implication of these
represents
189 Jewish federations and
unthinkable events still unknown, United
400
independent
communities across
Jewish Communities (UJC) and the
North
America,
has
opened the UJC
Federations of North America will not
Emergency
Relief
Fund
to assist in the
hold the IsraelNow and Forever Solidarity
Rally scheduled to take place in Midtown recovery, relief and rehabilitation of the
victims of this tragedy and their families.
Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 23.
All proceeds of the UJC Emergency
, Locally, the Jewish Federation of
Relief
Fund will go directly to assist
Metropolitan Detroit and the Jewish
individuals,
families and other relief
Community Council of Metropolitan
organizations.
Detroit have postponed the local Solidarity
The UJC family expresses its great
Rally for Israel also scheduled for Sept. 23.
sadness and horror at the recent
"Given the tragic events of Sept. 11,
attacks and calls on all Americans to
we feel that a rally in support of Israel
stand in solidarity and to act with
without taking the horrible domestic
continued compassion and generosity,
terrorism into consideration would be
inappropriate at this time," said Penny the press release stated.
Checks should be made payable to
Blumenstein, Federation president.
UJC
Emergency Relief Fund and sent
"We urge everyone to pray for the vic-
to:
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T
he Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit has
created an interactive memo-
rial display to give members,
staff, guests, officers and board members
the opportunity to remember the victims
of Tuesday's tragedies in Washington,
D.C., New York and Pennsylvania
The memorial is in the lobby of the
West Bloomfield JCC. It consists of
memorial candles and stones for people
to place in memory of those who died,
according to Jewish tradition. Draped
in black with American flags and red,
white and blue ribbons, the display
bears the English word "Remember"
with the Hebrew equivalent, "Zachor."
It also bears a message: "In Loving
Memory, Sept. 11, 2001, God Shed His
Grace On Thee. In loving tribute to those
who lost their lives in the tragedies of
New York, Washington, D.C., and else-
where around our great nation, we take a
stone and place it in the jar to keep their
memories alive. The Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit."
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"This is not just a Jewish response to
Tuesday's tragedies; it is an American
response," said David Sorkin, JCC
executive director. "We are part of the
American family, and we have lost
some of our family members."
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Correction
• In the editorial "The Triumph
Of Hate" (Sept. 7, page 30),
Mauritania, a nation in Africa's
western Sahara, should have been
named as a state where slavery is
still practiced, not Mauritius, an
island in the Indian Ocean.
• A photograph of Vivian
Zabel was incorrect in the
story "Central High:
Happy Days Again" (Sept.
7, page 11).
• The 53rd Annual Emmy
Awards, scheduled to air Sunday,
Sept. 16, on CBS (see "Another
Win for the Wing?" on page
R50), have been postponed.