by Abe | Jun 8, 2016 | News
This past weekend featured back-to-back End of Season events in Ultimate Peace, highlighting the leaders-in-training (LITs) and UP’s year-round programming with hundreds of participants! On Friday, more than 30 LITs with their staff began their last 24-hour meeting of...
by Abe | Apr 23, 2016 | News
UP has been running practices in communities in the Middle East since 2009, at each practice we have at least one ‘Mentor’ coach – A UP staff member or volunteer who knows the game of ultimate and plans and runs the practice. As the LIT program has...
by Abe | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog
Mohamed Roman, better known as Hosa, lives in a small Arab community a few minutes west of Jerusalem. In the six or so years he has involved himself with Ultimate Peace’s leadership, coexistence, and sports programs, Hosa has grown from a hyper-active pre-teen to an...
by Abe | Feb 28, 2016 | News
The second major event of the Ultimate Peace Middle East program year included more than 150 participants from Israeli Jewish and Arab communities! At most UP events, players are put on teams with players from other communities. This time, they got to play with the...
by Abe | Feb 12, 2016 | News
You’d think we would be hunkered down in the cold in late January, but things are just starting to heat up at UP. We hosted our 3rd LIT meeting of the year at a kibbutz down south (not far from our summer camp) on the 29th and 30th, and nearly 60 LITs spent over 24...
