Our amazing friend Jason Alexander, whose George Costanza character in Seinfeld is the furthest thing different from the real Jason, spoke to OneVoice youth earlier today about the Imagine 2018 essay and film project and caught a ton of media attention. It cracks me up how amazing stuff happens every day by ordinary Israelis and [...]
The New York Times reports about (OneVoice/PeaceWorks Foundation Board member) Dennis Ross’s move from the State Department to the White House. It offers a lot of theories for the move, many of them probably on target. But it fails to mention one of the most important likely factors: the interplay between all these Mideast conflicts, [...]
Andrew Sullivan’s blog documents the atrocities perpetrated by the ruling regime in its efforts to suppress protests after it stole the election. He shares the following: This list was being passed around among the resistance in Iran today: 1. Remove Khamenei from supreme leader because he doesn’t qualify as a fair supreme leader 2. Remove [...]
Here is an interview about OneVoice, PeaceWorks, and "my life" (the title and theme of the show, Hayati) that aired on the Arabic TV Network Al Hurra. It is painfully funny to watch how chubby I was…
When President Obama was elected, many Israelis fretted that he would side with Palestinians, while the majority of Palestinians were elated. When Obama selected Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff, Palestinians were devastated and paralyzed in fear, while Israelis celebrated Rahm’s service in the Israeli Defense Forces. And so on, with every appointment or [...]
A year ago we conceived a project to help young Palestinians and Israelis visualize what their lives would be like ten years from now if peace were to come. To dare them to believe, hoping this will then prompt them to invest into turning this vision into a reality. The project, Imagine 2018, received thousands [...]
Dan Bar-On was an extraordinary man who, together with Sami Adwan, conceived a powerful shared narrative project, where Israelis and Palestinians read about their and their counterparts’ historical narrative – helping them understand they don’t need to give up their patriotism to better understand the other side. Bar-On, who gave his life to peace efforts [...]
For those who can understand Hebrew – and for those who will get a kick out of just seeing the b-roll – here is a link to a story that appeared on Channel 2 in Israel, in their top news program, about OneVoice’s project Imagine 2018 – and the first two short films that were [...]
Barack Obama’s election, and his speech today to the Muslim world, may be looked back upon in future years as a turning point for human progress and global understanding. Far more revolutionary than the historical first of the heritage he represents is the ideological depth of his commitment to shared humanity. I LOVE THIS MAN! [...]
OneVoice Glasgow is a purely-volunteer-driven chapter that has risen above the rest of the international support efforts to such degree that it is worthy of attention. They receive zero funding from OneVoice, yet deliver so much in their community and beyond. If we can decode what has made them so extraordinary, international support for Israeli-Palestinian [...]