Kids in Sderot take a yoga program designed to reduce stress caused by living in kassam range. Credit: Jonathan Levine/UJC |
We'll post links to the coverage here so you can see what perspectives these journalists brought home with them.
First up is a podcast from Aaron Cohen, editor of Chicago's JUF News and one of the leading voices in the American Jewish media: Click here to listen.
A Grad missile fired from Gaza on May 14 wounded 15 Israelis when it slammed into a mall in Ashkelon. Credit: Jonathan Levine/UJC |
"We went to the police station and met the guy who's job it is to clear away the rockets, saw the unbelievable stack of hundreds of rockets behind the police station, including the one that fell 2 days ago. I got an education on the difference between an Islamic Jihad rocket (white or blue) and a Hamas rocket (red and green, plus different shaped fins). Saw the Grad that landed in Askelon a few weeks ago (Grads fall straight down, which allows them to spread 200 yards from impact and kill more people)."
Comments from other Chicagoland visitors to Sderot are on the JUF News' blog here.
Click here to read about the latest UJC aid efforts via the Israel Emergency Campaign.