Visiting the Greenhouse at Kibbutz Ein Shemer - July 20
07/20/2014 04:01:41 PM
The Greenhouse was started by Avital Geva. His story is shared in Dreamers written by Yossi Klein Halevi (Avital shared with us that he had not in fact yet read this chapter). "At this ecological greenhouse we are working to improve the environment, create energy, educate and do a little tikkun olam." "We have more than 400 Arab and Jewish Israeli kids coming here from the area each week. Much of this education is side by side rather than integrated. But some motivated by parents is integrated. He holds a corn sprout in his hand. He says that with its seed, sprout and root it contains the entire Torah. "We try to teach teamwork rather than money or ego without saying it explicitly."
The sign in Hebrew is a play on words based on an Arik Einstein song. It says, "algae and I will change the world".
The Greenhouse will be exhibiting at the NY JCC this autumn.