Some deep discussion

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Workshop 7 was dedicated to preparing for our self-management Shabbaton at the end of the month. Groups bonded by creating artworks of their faces and building cars to races against each other as well as having some time dedicated to planning. However, there isn't a Diller Teen Fellows gathering that goes without a deep discussion. Here are Yishai's reflections on two of the discussions that occurred during the workshop:

During the recent Diller workshop 2 of the activities we did really stood out and spoke to me.
Every week two fellows run an activity for the whole group. This week Jessy and Simmi inspired by a “buzzfeed” experiment decided to recreated it with us. The activity was designed so people can get a general understanding of how privileged they are. During the activity almost everyone realised how lucky they are to have certain things, and how some things are just unfair in our society (like gender inequality). The activity led into a discussion where someone asked “as part of being future leaders in the community, what do you think should be done with the fact the there are so many unprivileged?” this question got everyone thinking and a general consensus that was agreed on was that we all should be trying to make an effort to get everyone equal, but it’s just so hard.

Following this, as a group we read an article about a play in the VCAA Drama syllabus about the situation in Gaza (from a Palestinian), which is very one sided.
This of course sparked a few emotions in the group as all of us are Jews but also some interesting points were brought up by everyone.
Some argued that the play shouldn’t be shown to students because most have no knowledge on the situation in Gaza will from an uneducated opinion on the situation without hearing the other (Israeli) side of the story.
But then on the other side some argued that the play should be performed in front of the students because as every debate there are two sides that need to be explored.
Some of the solutions brought up were that maybe they could also include another play from the opposite side of the story, encourage learning about the situation in the kids studies, and during “question time” learn more about the situation.
It was also pointed out by most that watching this play could create very awkward situations for the Jewish students seeing this play in particular those seeing the play with mainly non-Jewish students.
-Yishai Elaluf





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