Articles

• Peace building and conflict transformation
  29 July 2005

  Our second meeting in the series "Peace begins here" and our last of our events for the current scholastic year, was an excellent one-and-a-half day workshop with Dr. Paula Green and Olivia Stokes Dreier of the Karuna Center. The workshop was attended by twenty-five peace and social change activists in Israel and Palestine.

• Treatment Day in Beit Sira village
  26 July 2005

  Saturday, July 10: The HAP team organized a treatment day for the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Sira (Ramallah district). Over five hours, a team of four volunteer doctors and a pharmacist treated some 300 patients with a variety of ailments and distributed medicines valued at NIS 15,000.

• Youth Delegation to Italy
  26 July 2005

  From July 1 – 11 ten young people, accompanied by Rayek Rizek and Berna Layous travelled to Italy for the ninth Anti-Racist World Cup (Mondiali Antirazzisti), organized by Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti (UISP) of Emilia Romagna, which took place in Montecchio.

• Truth & Reconciliation: A screening of two documentaries and discussion
  6 July 2005

  In the final meeting of this year’s series on "Truth and Reconciliation", Doumia-Sakinah used films dealing on a personal level with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the the post-apartheid process in South Africa as a basis for lively presentations and discussion.

• End of School Year and 6th Grade Graduation
  27 June 2005

  The end of the school year came for children in the NSWAS educational system. They exhibited their school work for parents, and 6th grade graduates engaged us with an impressive impressive theater - dance production. You can click on the photos for a larger view.

• Common destiny and the limits of identity
  3 June 2005

  The third meeting in our series, “Truth and reconciliation” featured presentations by Prof. Dan Bar-On and journalist Nazir Majali on Jewish and Arab identities in Israel: how the presence or absence of physical and psychological borders has influenced the development of each.

• Palestinian liberation theology as a tool for peace education
  17 May 2005

  As part of our series "Culture, Society & Tradition: a critical view" we invited Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek of the Sabeel Centre on the possible uses and implications of Christian liberation theology vis à vis the Palestinian - Israeli conflict.

• The role of historical truth in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
  6 May 2005

  In the second of our meetings in the series, "Truth and Reconciliation", an Arab and a Jewish historian presented separate historical narratives and discussed the possibility of ever reconciling them.

• Touching Peace
  3 May 2005

  In the framework: “Peace Begins Here” - a series of meetings for peace and social change activists - we conducted a workshop facilitated by two two teachers from Plum Village – the meditation centre of the Vietnamese Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

• Radical social views in the traditional Passover Hagadah
  18 April 2005

  A week before the Passover holiday, Doumia Sakinah arranged a study evening in the framework of the series, “Tradition, culture, society and commentary”

• Feminist voices in Islam and in Judaism
  24 February 2005, by Raida Aiashe-Hatib

  Doumia - Sakinah hosted a discussion on the position of women in Islam and Judaism

• Reflections on the summit at Sharm el-Sheikh
  16 February 2005, by Abdessalam Najjar

  NSWAS general secretary Abdessalam Najjar speaks his mind about the possibilities for peace.

• Medical treatment day in Jorat al-Shama’a Village
  30 January 2005

  The Humanitarian Assistant project team conduct a medical treatment day in Jorat al-Shama’a village.

• Introducing the Parents’ Circle / Families Forum
  24 January 2005

  As the first meeting in a series of study days initiated by the Spiritual Centre in coordination with the Parents’ Circle / Families Forum of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families supporting peace, reconciliation and tolerance, Doumia Sakinah invited members of the Forum to describe their work.

• The Primary School in 2004-2005
  12 November 2004

  The NSWAS Primary School continues in its efforts to provide a mature comprehensive binational education framework for children of the Village and some 30 communities in the surrounding area.

• In Memory of Hagar Edlund
  5 November 2004

  A young woman who left us much too soon

• The Junior High 2004-2005 School Year
  31 October 2004

  September 1 brought a new school year – only the second in the Junior High’s existence. The efforts of staff, parents and students had paid off. The successes of the previous year encouraged many new students to join. Some are graduates of the NSWAS primary school, while others are completely new to the system.
  Most of last year’s seventh grade students continued on to eighth grade, where there are 16 students this year (three of them new to the system). Another 25 students enrolled in the (...)

• Primary School Report for the 2003 - 2004 Scholastic Year (PDF format: 187 kb)
  1 September 2004, by Daniela Kitain
• Summer Camp 2004
  23 August 2004, by Daniela Kitain

  The children’s framework of NSWAS is not immune from the political and financial turmoil affecting our region. So it was no surprise that conducting our traditional “Brotherhood Summer-Camp” (“Kaytanat Ach’va – Muhayam Uchwa”) would bring challenges too. It took a greater effort this year to organize, and to find children to join. Jewish parents, in particular, seemed to prefer other activities for their children this summer.
  Finding the necessary financial support was harder too. We were (...)

• Summer update on Humanitarian Assistance
  3 August 2004, by Michal Zak

  It has been a while since our last report, and we have some good news on a number of projects, which we want to share with you.
  Helping Children who need medical care
  Helping children who need special medical care that cannot be obtained in Palestinian hospitals has become a major part of our work. Every time we meet, each member of the committee comes with a pile of faxes that carry the appeals of parents who are desperate to help their children. It is only natural that we hear of the (...)