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The Dorothy and Peter Brown
Jewish Community Adult Day Program

2nd annual award-winning

Dementia Friendly Kol Nidre/
Yom Kippur Service

Join us for an intimate, abbreviated
Yom Kippur service for families and
their loved ones touched by dementia.
A luncheon will follow the service.

Sunday, September 16
11:00 a.m.

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ast month on a rabbinical
conference in Israel con-
ducted by the pluralistic
Shalom Hartman Institute, Rabbi
Brent Gutmann of Temple Kol Ami
in West Bloomfield, along with a
delegation of rabbis from Israel and
around the globe,
visited the Arab
village of Husan,
located in the Gush
Etziyon region of
Judea and Samaria
(West Bank).
There, they met
with a grassroots
organization of
Rabbi Brent
Gutmann
Palestinians and
Israelis who are
taking up practical causes of co-
existence such as protesting Israel’s

continuing a section of the security
barrier that would bisect the village
and potentially harm the irrigating
Wadi Fakhim, and learned about
how Israelis and Palestinians can
work together to expand medical
facilities and services in the area.
A UNESCO world heritage site
10 kilometers west of Bethlehem,
Husan contains ancient remains
dating back to the Iron Age. Other
remains date from the post-Baby-
lonian Exile Period and the Middle
Ages. The original inhabitants
came from the Arabian Peninsula
and Yemen in the third century.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era
have been found.
The Arab villagers there still use
agricultural practices of tabled ter-
racing for their farming that date
back to ancient times, watered by
an ancient wadi (seasonal riverbed).
On his trip, Gutmann learned the
Arabs and Jews protesting there also
fear that the growing Jewish com-
munities around Husan are putting
pressures on this wadi and other
natural resources. They also fear
a strain on existing infrastructure
such as sewerage and drainage sys-
tems.
These grassroots organizations

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TOP: A delegation of rabbis from Israel and around the globe visited the Arab village of Husan
last month. ABOVE: The wadi that irrigates crops in the Arab village of Husan.

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