Blog Series for the Groundwork Fellowship
Table of Contents
1. Listening in Haifa
First encounters with coexistence initiatives in Israel’s most mixed city—and the different realities people describe living there.
2. Reading the Country Through Poetry
How modern Israeli poetry became an unexpected lens through which to experience the journey.
3. The Order of Stories
Standing at the Nova memorial site raises an uncomfortable question: does the order in which we hear stories shape how we understand them?
4. The Israel Between the Programs
What conversations with Israeli friends revealed about everyday life beyond organized dialogue programs.
5. Ramadan Karim, Shabbat Shalom
A brief encounter in Jerusalem’s Old City shows how coexistence sometimes appears in the smallest moments.
6. Loving Israel, Teaching Israel
What educators bring home from a trip like this—and how different Jewish communities approach teaching about Israel.
7. Bridges Need Foundations
A question about community: can societies build bridges between groups if the culture of civic community itself is weak?
8. Three Mohammeds
A reflection from outside Israel on professionalism, dignity, and one quiet way the world might begin to repair itself.