JUNE 16 • 2022 | 9
Old Faithful eruption. I have
always heard about Old
Faithful, but after seeing it
erupt, I can talk about my
experience, too.
Sightseeing in Yellowstone
was definitely a highlight of
the Freshmen Montana trip,
but what was even better is
that I spent all that time with
my friends, which means a
lot to me. I can now see my
friends at school and talk
about all the exciting things we
saw together. If I hadn’t shared
my experience with them,
then I don’t know how the trip
would have turned out.
By the time Yellowstone was
over, we were able to spend
Shabbat on a ranch, where
we all spent our last days in
Montana together, remember-
ing all the good times we had.
Learning about the
Cheyenne people and seeing
all the gorgeous scenery of
Montana left so much in our
heads. It was a really great way
to end the trip at HardScrabble
Ranch because it gave us two
days to relax and chill together
after an impactful and inspira-
tional trip.
Emmanuela Arkashevsky is a fresh-
man at Frankel Jewish Academy.
en Jerusalem’s Arab residents.
They shouted hateful slogans
like “Death to Arabs” and
“Mohammed is dead,
” while
banging on doors of Arab
shops and physically accosting
Arab locals. Yair Lapid, Israel’s
foreign minister, said of last
week’s events, “Instead of a day
of joy, extremists are trying to
turn Jerusalem Day into a day
of hate. Jerusalem deserves
better. Israeli society deserves
better.
”
We, as part of both Hadassah
and Team Israel, need to call
out hate and bigotry wherever
we find it, even if it’s in our
own backyard. It would be true
to say that those perverting the
joy on June 1 into hate, those
intent on harm, were in the
minority.
Most attending the Yom
Yerushalayim events did so in
a spirit of joy and celebration.
That fact doesn’t absolve us of
the obligation to recognize and
condemn what this minority of
extremists did.
What’s most troubling about
the events are the questions it
raises about the direction of
Israeli society — are extremist,
nationalist views on the rise
both politically and socially?
And what can we, as American
Jews do, not Israeli citizens but
spiritually tied to our home-
land? One thing we can do
is support organizations that
build bridges and promote
peaceful co-existence and edu-
cation.
For example, Hand in
Hand is a bilingual network of
schools educating Israeli and
Arab children together. Givat
Haviva, awarded the UNESCO
Prize for Peace Education in
2001, is an organization, found-
ed in 1949, dedicated to bridg-
ing the gap between Jewish
and Arab Israelis through edu-
cation, language instruction,
culture and art. And there are
many, many more.
Israel is such a wonder-
ful, confusing, complex and
multi-layered entity. And while
we stand with Israel, our home,
our heart, we need to work
hard from this far shore to help
make Israel the best it can be.
Hatred, bigotry and intoler-
ance have no place there, or
here.
Mandy Garver is president of
Hadassah Greater Detroit.
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