An email recently sent to me by a dear friend... thought you all might be interested
Subject: Help Me Support Israel (Notice language)
"Friends!!
At the end of this month I will be participating in a 300 mile week long bike ride in Israel to support an INCREDIBLE organization, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. The Arava Institute is a training center for environmental leadership, with students from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and the rest of the world. By encouraging environmental cooperation between peoples, the Arava Institute is working towards peace and sustainable development on a regional and global scale.
This organization has become especially meaningful to me due to my older sister, Abra's, involvement in it. She attended and graduated from the Institute last year and is now dedicating herself to environmental awareness and cooperative efforts among peoples and countries in the Middle East.
My fund raising goal for the bike ride is $3600.00. I would SOOO appreciate ANY contribution you could make, no matter the amount!
Here is the link to my quick-and-easy personal fund raising page:
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=250598&lis=1&supId=200770043
I don't want to go into too much detail in this letter (long emails are the worst) - but please call me or email me if you have ANY questions, or would like more information about the Arava Institute or the bike ride.
I cannot tell you what your support means to me - THANK YOU!!"
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Has anyone heard of this?
Visit the Arava Institute's webpage at www.arava.org to see for yourself what the project is doing.
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yeeeeah i was looking at this last quarter sometime. the trip is co-organized/sponsored/whatevered by hazon and the arava institute. hazon (means vision i think) is dedicated to establishing a new vision of the jewish community with outdoor and environmental education. they organize community-supported agriculture programs in new york and all sorts of other eat-well/live-well programs.
arava institute is a program ran on a kibbutz in the negev that brings together american jews, israelis, palestinians to 1) live together 2) work on developing environmentally sustainable livelihood strategies and 3) create dialogue with environmental issues in mind, as they relate to the conflict. i heard from the director, 1 american jew, 1 israeli druse, 1 palestinian, and 1 british jew.
the panel discussion was nice enough, the director of arava pissed us all off when he said (and i'm paraphrasing here) that supporting israel in america is not enough, all american jews should live in israel if they truly love it. it was weird.
the website for the bike-ride is http://www.hazon.org/go.php?q=/rides/2008IL/logistics.html
i'll hopefully be doing this myself sometime in the future... it sounds pretty amazing
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