It’s no secret that our world is saturated with distressing conflict. Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. Turkey. Yemen. Lybia. South Sudan. And on and on. Every day, it seems, we’re overwhelmed with daunting news of more intractable strife. It can be so hard to find hope in the midst of such horror. Yet, hope we must. As Albert Einstein observed, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” And there are real seeds of such understanding in reflections by Penina Satlow.
Penina Satlow is a 17-year-old senior at Classical High School. She lives in Providence with her family. This summer she participated in the Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel.
