Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was approached in 1994 by Lewis Bernstein of the Children’s Television Workshop to participate in a joint ...

JERUSALEM — Haneen is an orange Palestinian Muppet with a mop of pink hair. She lives on “Shara’a Simsim.” Dafi, purple with blue pigtails and a bright yellow nose, is an Israeli Muppet from “Rehov ...

In 1997, I spent a year living in a small hotel room in East Jerusalem producing the first-ever Israeli-Palestinian version of Sesame Street, a show I referred to at the time as "CNN on Ritalin." ...

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — It’s always a sunny day on Sesame Street in the West Bank, where the neighbors are friendly and the muppets never see an Israeli army checkpoint. “Shara’a Simsim” teaches ...