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My time in the Pays des Mille Collines

ASYV Gets Some Press

A journalist named Nicoe Kallmeyer visited us last week and wrote an article on the work we are doing.

Rwandan genocide survivor Innocent Gisanura doesn’t know much about Judaism, but the counselor at a new home for genocide orphans can explain the Jewish philosophies of tikkun halev and tikkun olam.

“The first is healing the heart, the second is healing the world,” he said.

These are the guiding principles of Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, built amid the undulating rural landscape of Rwanda’s Rwamagana district, 50 kilometers from the capital of Kigali…

They even interviewed me, but, alas, nothing I had to say seems to have made it into the article. I’ll have to work on becoming more interesting.

In the meantime, you can check out her full piece here.

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[...] Here are two links to a story by DJ Siegel about the village. She visited with the other journalist Nicole Kallmeyer, who I linked to last week. Alas, though DJ also interviewed me, I wasn’t good enough for her [...]

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