Israeli actor Shai Schwartz weaves ancient folk tales into his storytelling performances. But he also includes elements of real life, and those are often every bit as captivating as the fiction he creates.
Schwartz's day-to-day life takes place in Neve Shalom, an experimental Jewish-Arab village located midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
"I come from a place where two nations are fighting over one piece of land," Schwartz told Hebrew school students at San Francisco's Congregation Beth Israel-Judea earlier this month. "And they haven't really decided how to solve their problems."
By SARAH COLEMAN, Bulletin Correspondent
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