JITLI 2012 SAN DIEGO PARTICIPANT: ARTURO SILBERSTEIN
Where to begin? JITLI has been one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It was certainly the most unique and unexpected. Leading up to JITLI, I didn’t know what to expect. One of my biggest obstacles in life is meeting and befriending new people. I knew that I not only would meet new people, but that I would…
JITLI: a group of 40 kids who have no idea what they’re getting themselves into. A group of ten kids from San Diego, ten kids from Sha’ar HaNegev, ten kids from Lakyia, and ten kids from Segev Shalom. A group of kids who all want to learn something new from people who have always been on the other side of…
Before attending JITLI, I had never really seen the “real” world. I live in a bubble, a bubble with people living in a perfect world who believe that the biggest problem is the power going out for a day. What they don’t know, is that half way across the world, in an unrecognized village, Bedouin families are figuring out how…
The whole thing was a paradox. The people, the goal, the trip. There would always be the wall, a wall that in some cases is a physical border, though many times simply metaphorical. Whether it was made of poured concrete or just poor feelings, it did its job. There’s no mystery of what a wall is supposed to do; alienate…
“When we were at the photography museum, and they asked us to make a picture, at first the Sha’ar Hanegev group went to one table. Chen told us to mix and so everyone left and I stayed by myself. I started making stuff and thinking about what I was going to do. Then Maher came and, without saying anything, started…
Hi my name is Yuval, from Shaar HaNegev and I was a participant in JITLI 2011.
The moment I’m writing about is not my best moment, it’s the moment I realized I had changed.
Before JITLI I considered myself to be tolerant towards Arabs and understanding yet every time I saw an Arab man or an Arab woman with
A veil I…
My JITLI was the best experience I ever had. I think that JITLI was about friends relationships and sharing life stories and opinions. My favorite part in JITLI was meeting Demian Juarez and Eshed Aragaman. I loved spending time with both of them. All my friends are in my heart forever. My San Diego friends and Shaar Hanegev friends and…
There I am standing. I have never felt this way before, a feeling of sadness, anxiety but proud at the same time. Right in front of me is the face of all evil, Hitler. And beside that are pictures of the ghastly, rugged, powerful Nazis. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, the museum where the world can come together and commemorate on the…