Radical social views in the traditional Passover Hagadah
A week before the Passover holiday, Doumia Sakinah arranged a study evening in the framework of the series, “Tradition, culture, society and commentary”
Continue reading →A week before the Passover holiday, Doumia Sakinah arranged a study evening in the framework of the series, “Tradition, culture, society and commentary”
Continue reading →Ronit Tirosh, director of Israeli Education Ministry (visit, January 2002):
The school works towards the aim of nurturing the personal, national and cultural identity of both peoples. The students conduct educational and cultural dialogues with no regard to the difference between them.
I saw students and educators, who are trying to find, through this encounter, what they commonly share. Let us pray that perhaps from you will come out (…)
Update on two girls: Battul and Malak
26 October 2003, by Michal Zak
It is the first day of Ramadan, a good day to share good news. We are proud and happy to share with you that Battul Jaludi, the little girl from Jenin recovered from open-heart surgery and is on her way home! The operation was successful. After six hours, the doctors were able to close the hole in her heart, and to restore the valve almost completely (80%). If it had proved impossible to restore the valve, there was the option to install an artificial valve , but in this case the (…)
HAP helps another Palestinian girl
10 October 2003, by Michal Zak
Treatment will restore a West Bank girl to normal life
Behind the Fence
6 October 2003
The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre, in cooperation with the School for Peace, convened a meeting based on a film screening and a presentation on the subject of Israel’s security fence.
HAP Update: Malak goes to school
16 September 2003, by Michal Zak
We are all excited that Malak was discharged from the hospital and has gone into first grade, like any normal girl. At home, she continues to work-out on her knee, for which purpose we got her a bicycle which she must ride daily. It’s a struggle for her, but this is the best physiotherapy in her case. She is also wearing special garments, which place pressure on her scars. She will have to wear these for a while, so that the scars don’t grow. We are sure she will do very well in school, (…)
The new school year gets underway, and the junior high school opens
15 September 2003
There was nothing routine about the opening of the 2003 – 2004 school year. First because a new seventh grade class launched the beginning of a junior high school; secondly because the primary school welcomed a new co-principal; and thirdly because just over the school fence, work was proceeding on a new school building.
A junior high school
For several years, NSWAS has been preparing to move up to the level of a junior high school (grades 7 – 9), and for much of the last year, a special (…)
Memory and recognition
September 2003, by Dorit Shippin, Dyana Shaloufi-Rizek
Doumia-Sakinah and two other organisations commemorated the 1967 destruction of three villages in the Latrun area.
The NSWAS Primary School in 2002 / 2003: a year end report.
6 August 2003, by Maya Karni
Co-principal Maya Karni tells of the challenges she faced in her first year as principal, and why she remains optimistic.
HAP report for Summer 2003
August 2003
Activities by the HAP committee continued during the summer.
Memory and Peace
August 2003, by Dorit Shippin
Doumia Sakina organized an open discuss with the initiators of the “Memory and Peace” initiative, which took a delegation of Palestinians to Auschwitz.
Summer camp 2003
31 July 2003
Some 140 young people aged 5 to 13 took part in the highly successful NSWAS annual binational summer camp.
”Face to Face”
3 July 2003
Made for Italian TV by M. Moncada and D. Mitzman (early 2000s). Source: Arcoiris TV YouTube channel.
(English with Italian subtitles and narrative)
Children report on the school year
1 July 2003
Six short reports, one from each grade level, about what they did this year in school.
Richard Gere visits NSWAS
15 June 2003
Richard Gere took time out of a three day visit to Israel and Palestine to visit NSWAS.
Two NSWAS delegates tour Britain
26 May 2003
… and are invited to the House of Commons
Visit by President of the German Bundestag Thierse and Ambassador Dressler
25 May 2003
… and inaugurate a new building for volunteers
Thoughts of NSWAS members regarding the war with Iraq
10 April 2003
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Ronit Tirosh, director of Israeli Education Ministry (visit, January 2002):
The school works towards the aim of nurturing the personal, national and cultural identity of both peoples. The students conduct educational and cultural dialogues with no regard to the difference between them.
I saw students and educators, who are trying to find, through this encounter, what they commonly share. Let us pray that perhaps from you will come out (…)
Update on two girls: Battul and Malak
26 October 2003, by Michal Zak
It is the first day of Ramadan, a good day to share good news. We are proud and happy to share with you that Battul Jaludi, the little girl from Jenin recovered from open-heart surgery and is on her way home! The operation was successful. After six hours, the doctors were able to close the hole in her heart, and to restore the valve almost completely (80%). If it had proved impossible to restore the valve, there was the option to install an artificial valve , but in this case the (…)
HAP helps another Palestinian girl
10 October 2003, by Michal Zak
Treatment will restore a West Bank girl to normal life
Behind the Fence
6 October 2003
The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre, in cooperation with the School for Peace, convened a meeting based on a film screening and a presentation on the subject of Israel’s security fence.
HAP Update: Malak goes to school
16 September 2003, by Michal Zak
We are all excited that Malak was discharged from the hospital and has gone into first grade, like any normal girl. At home, she continues to work-out on her knee, for which purpose we got her a bicycle which she must ride daily. It’s a struggle for her, but this is the best physiotherapy in her case. She is also wearing special garments, which place pressure on her scars. She will have to wear these for a while, so that the scars don’t grow. We are sure she will do very well in school, (…)
The new school year gets underway, and the junior high school opens
15 September 2003
There was nothing routine about the opening of the 2003 – 2004 school year. First because a new seventh grade class launched the beginning of a junior high school; secondly because the primary school welcomed a new co-principal; and thirdly because just over the school fence, work was proceeding on a new school building.
A junior high school
For several years, NSWAS has been preparing to move up to the level of a junior high school (grades 7 – 9), and for much of the last year, a special (…)
Memory and recognition
September 2003, by Dorit Shippin, Dyana Shaloufi-Rizek
Doumia-Sakinah and two other organisations commemorated the 1967 destruction of three villages in the Latrun area.
The NSWAS Primary School in 2002 / 2003: a year end report.
6 August 2003, by Maya Karni
Co-principal Maya Karni tells of the challenges she faced in her first year as principal, and why she remains optimistic.
HAP report for Summer 2003
August 2003
Activities by the HAP committee continued during the summer.
Memory and Peace
August 2003, by Dorit Shippin
Doumia Sakina organized an open discuss with the initiators of the “Memory and Peace” initiative, which took a delegation of Palestinians to Auschwitz.
Summer camp 2003
31 July 2003
Some 140 young people aged 5 to 13 took part in the highly successful NSWAS annual binational summer camp.
”Face to Face”
3 July 2003
Made for Italian TV by M. Moncada and D. Mitzman (early 2000s). Source: Arcoiris TV YouTube channel.
(English with Italian subtitles and narrative)
Children report on the school year
1 July 2003
Six short reports, one from each grade level, about what they did this year in school.
Richard Gere visits NSWAS
15 June 2003
Richard Gere took time out of a three day visit to Israel and Palestine to visit NSWAS.
Two NSWAS delegates tour Britain
26 May 2003
… and are invited to the House of Commons
Visit by President of the German Bundestag Thierse and Ambassador Dressler
25 May 2003
… and inaugurate a new building for volunteers
Thoughts of NSWAS members regarding the war with Iraq
10 April 2003
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…
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700
720
740
760
780
800
820
840
…
840
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Visiting
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Information
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September 2, 2001: With a brief ceremony, the school year opened for 311 children in the NSWAS children’s educational framework…
Continue reading →New construction Construction began on the new building for the public relations office. Currently the office is housed in a decaying wooden house that was one of the first buildings to be erected in NSWAS. The new building, at the … Continue reading →