By Perrine Vaillant | Executive Director, American Friends of NSWAS
A few months after the passing of Abdessalam Najjar who headed the Pluralistic Spiritual Center of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, we are happy to announce that Dafna Karta-Schwartz will now be leading the Center. Dafna is a teacher, therapist and facilitator for groups in conflict. She has a long experience in spiritual development and drama therapy. She has lived in the Jewish-Palestinian community of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam from the 1980s. Dafna will be assisted by a small team of volunteers who will help her with the budget and with organizational issues at the Spiritual Pluralistic Center.
Unfortunately, the past months have left the Center in a dire financial situation and we will have to actively fundraise to make sure projects, especially the Massa-Massar program for young Jews, Muslims and Christians in Israel, can be relaunched. Our goal is to implement a new journey for about 20 young Palestinians and Jews from all over Israel next year.
We appreciate your support and want you to know that it continues to be critical to the success of the program.
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