Making
Peace through Language
(IFM) In an effort
to promote peace and understanding between Jews and Arabs
in France, a new organization is offering joint Hebrew and Arabic classes to
students
in Paris, YNET reported.
Since last
October, “Speak in Peace” offers a weekly language
course that co-Creator Dan Borodaty, a French Jew, set up with
two teachers, Laure, a French-Israeli citizen, and Yahya, who
is of Moroccan origin.
“Arabic
and Hebrew are two Semitic languages with the same origin. They
are very similar, which makes it useful to learn them together,” Laure
explained.
In other news,
according to THE JERUSALEM POST, around 1,000 Jews from France
have arrived in Israel on a solidarity mission.