As you may have heard, Tawonga's Oseh Shalom Sanea al-Salam Peacemakers weekend was featured on CBS5 last night!

Did you miss it? No problem, you can watch the video on the web here. (It's the second thumbnail from the left under the video window.)

It was wonderful to see Camp Tawonga on the news and we hope you'll check it out and share it with a friend.

Exciting news: Bay Area Channel 5 News spent the weekend with us at Peacemakers Weekend and will air their story on the 6:00 PM news tonight!

The story will also be on their website.

Of course, we do not know how our three days will be reported in three minutes, but we invite you to find out. Tune in and let us know what you think in the comments!

Inviting Bay Area students, families, everyone
a powerful, educational international evening of inspiring
"Camp Stories"

about conflict, about change
told together by Palestinian and Jewish youth and adults
Christians, Muslims, and Jews
from "back home" in Israel and Palestine, and from America
just returned down the mountain from their face-to-face encounters at

Oseh Shalom - Sanea al-Salam
Third Palestinian - Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp



Monday, September 19, 2005 - 7:30 - 9:30 PM
St. Mary's Cathedral - San Francisco
1111 Gough Street at Geary
Ample free parking, visual and educational displays, Middle Eastern refreshments

Hear compelling stories from the mouths of courageous Arabs and Jews
refusing to be enemies
crossing emotional and physical boundaries
listening, understanding and building relationships while
discovering that "an enemy is one whose story we have not heard."


Learn more about this evening
http://traubman.igc.org/campmonday.htm AND http://traubman.igc.org/camp2005news.htm

the historic 2005 Family Peacmakers Camp in California
http://traubman.igc.org/camp2005.htm AND http://www.tawonga.org/wf_nature.html

and the larger, growing family of 14 North American camp programs
for the Middle East public peace process
http://traubman.igc.org/camps.htm AND

The following pictures tell a bit of the story of this past weekend's exhilirating and moving encounter between Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians, Muslims, Christians and Jews at Oseh Shalom-Sanea al-Salam Peacemakers Weekend at Camp Tawonga.

Monday October 18 is the deadline for submissions for the The Association of Jewish Center Professionals (AJCP) Scholarship Program conducted in cooperation with the Jewish Funeral Directors of America (JFDA). The JDFA is funding six $500 college incentive scholarships to be awarded to fall of 2005 high school seniors who are planning to start college in the fall of 2006.

Students must submit an essay of no more than 500 words on 'How I Would Work to Build a Stronger Jewish Community'. Entries will be judged based on originality, creativity and personal commitment. Winners will be announced in December of 2005.

All essays are to be typed double spaced and sent to the Association of Jewish Center Professionals, 15 East 26^th Street, New York, NY 10010 or can be e-mailed to hrosenzweig@jcca.org. In order for essays to be judged objectively, you are asked not to put your name on the essay itself. On a separate page attached to your essay, please provide your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

If you have any questions please call Harvey Rosenzweig, Executive Director of AJCP at 212-786-5155.

The third annual Oseh Shalom Sanea al-Salam Peacemakers weekend starts at Camp Tawonga on Friday, and this year, participants are coming from all over the world.

We are working with an organization called Peace Child Israel, which fosters dialogue between Israeli and Arab youth, teaching coexistence through theater and the arts.

The delegation to Tawonga arrived at SFO yesterday - half Israelis and half Palestinians. They're out on the town today exploring Chinatown and Alcatraz, and having a wonderful time. Palestinian attendees from the West Bank will begin arriving tomorrow.