Sarah Bernstein, at The Blogs

Sarah Bernstein

Dec 14, 2023, 11:47 PM

The shared pain of ordinary people caught in the crossfire

Preparing art kits for children in Ramle (image courtesy of author)

Compassion is not a zero-sum game; rather, we should feel empathy for those suffering, regardless of our politics or allegiances

May 16, 2023, 3:57 PM

From Me Myself I to All of Us

President Isaac Herzog hosts delegations from Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity for judicial overhaul negotiations at his residence in Jerusalem, March 28, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Times of Israel)

In between another outbreak of war and the impending tensions over Jerusalem Day, and even after weeks of protests with hundreds of thousands of participants from Kiryat Shmonah to Eilat, the compromise talks now being renewed under the auspices...

Mar 1, 2023, 6:45 PM

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Nightmares and pipe dreams: A visit to Huwara

The families told us of their dilemma: stay in their smoke-filled houses or flee and face the hordes rampaging outside

Dec 26, 2021, 4:32 PM

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All eyes on Bethlehem

The acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads a Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem in the West Bank, December 25, 2019. (MUSSA ISSA QAWASMA/POOL/AFP)

Church leaders in Israel are experiencing harassment from Jewish youth conditioned to be fearful of a community that long ago stopped posing a threat

Oct 15, 2021, 10:51 AM

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Dialogue, not diatribe

35 Jewish and Arab principals own their responsibility to educate for a future that will include living and working in a multicultural reality. You should too

Oct 13, 2021, 4:57 PM

When Arab and Jewish students meet on campus…

35 years ago I began studying for my law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I was an olah hadashah’, a new immigrant, with little Hebrew - and terrified of being asked to use it. It took me...

Aug 30, 2021, 2:55 PM

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Do Jewish children need a Jewish teacher?

The demand by some parents that their children's homeroom teachers share their Zionist values reflects a misunderstanding of how identity is actually shaped

About Me

Dr. Sarah Bernstein is the Director of the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue. With a background as a lawyer and mediator, for over twenty years Sarah has been working in Jerusalem in the field of peace-building and shared society, specializing in interreligious dialogue and education. She was awarded her Phd in Peace and Reconciliation Studies by Coventry University in England. Sarah sat on the Alliance for Peacebuilding Global Advisory Council on Effective Interreligious Peacebuilding Evaluation, and was a founding Board member of the International Association of Spiritual Care.

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