Former Hostage Talks About Palestine Peace Efforts in Dearborn

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Levin feels the key to success is when peace education is "systemic," in other words - taught from a young age. Yet even when peace education is introduced at the teenage level the kids are receptive. She said she was delighted to see how mature and open her students were to peace education. She even had a team travel to Jenin after the 2002 massacre to work with the teenagers in the town. The teenagers told her they had a responsibility to the youth of the town, they knew the kids were watching them and they felt determined to be positive mentors. Of course there are many obstacles. One teenager in the Jenin program said, "We have so much to unlearn."

[Jerry Levin] works with the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron. In March 1984, while working for CNN in Lebanon, Jerry Levin was kidnapped. Sis worked tirelessly for his release, and Jerry was able to escape on Valentine's Day 1985. During his imprisonment, Sis worked in a rehabilitation hospital for children wounded in Middle East hostilities. She later related the story of her efforts to free her husband in her "Beirut Diary," which formed the basis for the ABC-TV movie Held Hostage.

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Former Hostage Talks About Palestine Peace Efforts in Dearborn

"We are all involved in this, all of us." These were the words of Dr. Sis Levin, the activist, scholar and mentor presently working in Bethlehem teaching peace and non-violent techn...

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