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American art educator and professional comedy writer Maureen Kushner traveled across Israel helping children move beyond fear by creating paintings about peace. The artworks by Jewish, Arab, Bedouin and Druze children are now featured in a traveling exhibit. Hear Ms. Kushner share stories about her journey and the inspiring vision of the children. The exhibit will be on display at the Arthur M. Glick JCC through December. Schools and youth groups are encouraged to bring students to view the paintings.

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A nominee for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award, Beaufort is a dramatic film that chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit’s tense, painful withdrawal from a strategic bunkers inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border.

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In March 1996 on her 15th birthday, Bat-Chen Shahak was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her diaries, letters, poems and drawings have now been published as a book. Ayelet Shahak is Bat-Chen’s mother and using excerpts from her daughter’s diaries she talks about Bat-Chen’s life and challenges teens to write their own diaries to express their thoughts, feelings and fears.

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Storytelling performed by Gerald Fierst, Arif Choudhury and Susan O’Halloran (Jewish, Muslim and Catholic) offering a “real life-story tapestry” of traditional, personal and sacred stories illuminating the experience of being an American in a time of religious tension and change.

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The first female Secretary of State and at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. Albright is the chairperson for The Women, Faith and Development Alliance, which aims to end global poverty among women. Albright is also the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. (more…)

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Do we really want to know what people form the Middle East think about the United States? We do if we want to improve relations. (more…)

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Former U.S. Congressman, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, and member of the War Powers Commission…. Lee Hamilton = The Statesman’s Statesman (more…)

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To what degree to American journalists report the news, and to what degree do they project the US to the rest of the world. A group of DePauw alumni is answering this question every day.

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Four perspectives on American global power: (1) America is rapidly declining to irrelevancy (thank goodness); (2) America is facing the rise of new wannabe empires, so has to accommodate them in cooperative institutions; (3) reports of America’s decline have been rmapant since before the US rose, and are still premature (thank goodness); (4) like it or not, for good or for ill the US will be Top Dog for a long time, but that shouldn’t distract us from figuring out how we here can help solve global problems. Guess which is Provocate’s preferred position? (more…)

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Where does imagination reside? Who or what is cultivating the practice of imagination? When are social, religious, and cultural boundaries appropriate? What is needed to unleash public imagination in ways that benefit our communities’ economic, social, and cultural health? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions that will be explored across the city through performances, dance, panel discussions, exhibits, workshops, and more during the 2008 Spirit & Place Festival. (more…)

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