Foundation Director of Programs Eric Deutsch met with students from the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation in August. He led the nine students in a workshop based on The Foundation's Shared Dreams Curriculum Guide. Among the topics discussed were whether fighting for a cause is worth going to jail, and whether ethnic slurs are acceptable if they are about one's own ethnic group. The Mickey Leland Intern program was founded in 1980 by the late Rep. Mickey Leland of Texas. Every summer, it would select inner-city students within his former district to experience life on a kibbutz and in modern Israeli society for a six-week work and travel experience. Because of security concerns, the students no longer can travel to the Middle East. An alternative program now enables them to go to New York City and Washington, DC to meet with United Nations representatives, embassy officials, peace activists, scholars, government agencies, business leaders and citizens from the Middle East.

Eric Deutsch and the Mickey Leland Interns

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