At the end of July, a Polish-Israeli youth exchange was organized in Szczebrzeszyn by Magdalena Sobczuk, a graduate of the School of Dialogue. It was called “Through the Window” an idea Magdalena came up when she was participating in the Forum’s educational workshops in 2012, when she was a local high school student.

During the exchange, 10 students from the informal Israeli youth group “סובלנות” (“Tolerance”), together with their Polish counterparts, toured Szczebrzeszyn and learned about one another’s customs and traditions during workshops. During the final session of the program, they invited locals to learn about Jewish culture using art and dance as a medium. Szczebrzeszyn’s inhabitants were encouraged to look at their town from a new perspective and to embrace its multicultural history.