Principals and administrators have spent much of the summer ironing out multiple plans to return, whether in-person, online, or some combination of the two.
The Shi Jia school put on events over the last two years to teach the students about Israel, how to say \”Shalom,\” even had its students Skype with a school in Jerusalem. Of course, the school was following the progress of Israeli athletes along with China\’s.
At a time when Jews and Muslims in other parts of the world aren\’t having much luck learning from one another, the conversation and the setting for it are both quietly revolutionary. Here Jewish and Muslim students live together in harmony.
Adam is pushing the strings of his tzitzit through a small hole on the side of his desk.
Briefs
The goal is to give young, secular Israelis an education that will show them that they too have a rich culture to tap into and explore.
A Torah scroll that twice survived extinction was ushered to its new home in the Lainer Beit Mirdash of Milken Community High School on October 19.
A dearth of leadership talent is wreaking havoc on the Jewish day school system as schools find it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain qualified heads.
The only school in Acre that serves both Jewish and Arab pupils — the el-Mahaba, took a direct hit from a rocket during the war.
Gayle Gale started Kids for Peace after she returned to Los Angeles from a series of trips to Israel as a visiting artist at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba in 1994 and 1995. With assistance from the local Israeli consulate and a grant obtained with help from the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity from the Jewish Community Foundation, she set out to teach youth about Israel through artistic means. In the years since, Gale has found herself doing much more.
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