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<strong>The long read:</strong> At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian. I was Israeli. When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him

All Talk This feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza during the military incursion known as Operation Protective Edge, Salma Faysal, a 17-year-old from Ramallah, was at sleepaway camp in rural Maine. Faysal was a second-year camper at Seeds of Peace Camp, a coexistence initiative that brings Israeli and Palestinian teenagers together each summer on the shores of Pleasant Lake, an ...

Having devoted fully half of my adult life to professional and lay leadership of the Anti-Defamation League’s work in our region, it is time for me to pursue other challenges in the arena of social and community justice. It is a departure laced with sadness as a lengthy chapter in my life en…

>> up next on encore booknotes susan eisenhower discusses her book, "breaking free" a memoir of love and revolution. she tells the story of her love affair and eventual marriage to a member of president gorbachevs inner circle and head of the soviet civilian space program. this program originally aired on september 13, 1995 and is about an hour. c-span: susan eisenhower, why did you call your book "breaking free"? >> guest: well, i think it was designed to accomplish a lot of things. i...