A Reform movement summer camp hired what it said was the first Israeli Arab counselor to staff a North American Jewish summer camp. Rula Faran, 23, a Christian Arab and student in Jerusalem, was hired to teach art at the movement’s Greene Family Camp near Waco, Texas.
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