GVSU Hillel: HCAM Israel Fellow Ziv Zelinger; MSU Hillel
Israel Fellow Rotem Raiter; senior Madelyne Soltz, Walled Lake;
speaker Lucy Aharish; junior Jessica Sherbin, Farmington Hills;
senior Ilana Woronoff and freshman Sunny Nayberg, both of
West Bloomfield; sophomore Zoe Kaufman, Chicago; junior
Sarah Klein, Bloomfield Hills; and senior Shelby Bruseloff, West
Bloomfield.

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productive discussion about Israel at
GVSU. Aharish is the first Arab-Israeli
news anchor for Primetime Channel 2
News, and her ability to use her position
of visibility to focus on coexistence is
commendable.
A common criticism of people who
spout anti-Israeli rhetoric is that those
individuals are not depicting the whole
image, or they’re skewing the facts. While
that may be true, it is up to us, the Jewish
community, not to be guilty of the same
offense.
Jewish people have a storied past, pres-
ent and future, and that story is rich in
detail and complexity. It is a disservice to
ourselves and those around us to pretend
otherwise. I am so thankful to Aharish
and Hillel at GVSU, as well as the many
co-sponsors of Aharish’s lecture, for being
willing to engage in a complicated discus-

sion about a complicated topic.
I still don’t have a good answer for
those who ask me “How do Jews feel
about Israel?” but Aharish’s ability to
facilitate meaningful conversations about
this question, without losing any of the
intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict allowed me, as well as others, to feel a
little more comfortable living in the gray
area.
The first step in creating any sort of
lasting coexistence is being able to listen
to each other, and my hope is that leaders
in the fight for peace, like Aharish, con-
tinue to push for conversations like those
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