Amid the ongoing trauma in Israel and Gaza singing a different song, the Jerusalem

youth chorus is trying to do what few others seem able to do these days, to see each

other as people and to enjoy each other through a love of

music.

Jeffrey Brown spent a day around the nation's capital with them recently for our arts and

culture series, Canvas. and Culture Series, canvas. The The Jerusalem Youth Chorus,

Youth Chorus, Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims, and Jews.

Residents of the same city experiencing life and the ongoing war in vastly

different ways disagreeing about fundamental issues and policies but

singing with and speaking to one another across a great divide.

17 year old Dahlia Jowoni is a Palestinian Muslim from East Jerusalem.

I joined for the music.

I stayed because it was so much more.

How is it more?

We have dialogue.

We talk.

I think if it weren't for the choir, I wouldn't have interacted with Israelis like ever.

So it offered me that and it offered me also a space to share my voice.

I feel like as a Palestinian you don't have many of those places where I live.

15 year old Hadass Samah is from a Jewish family living in West Jerusalem.

I thought it was only singing and then we just kind of like got separated into groups and

we started talking and like sharing and it was at first it was kind of shocking but it was so

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