Articles

• Jitli at the PSCC
  30 April 2014, by C&D Office

  Our Pluralistic Spiritual Community Centre (PSCC) hosted members of the Jitli program last week. As a preparation for their summer camp trip around Israel, a select number of their young councillors were touring the country. Their stay with us consisted of an extended tour of our village, several workshops and a musical performance by a joint Jewish-Arab band.
  The group was equally divided between Jews from San Diego, USA, and Sha’ar Hanegev, Israel, and Muslims and Bedouins from Segev (...)

• Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014
  28 April 2014, by C&D Office

  In remembrance of the Holocaust, the Primary School organised a ceremony, featuring a minute of silence, singing, reading of stories, and a dance.

• Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day: "In the Spirit of Etty Hillesum"
  27 April 2014

  Some 100 persons attended the event themed "In the Spirit of Etty Hillesum" held on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Day.

• Celebration of Passover and Easter
  3 April 2014, by C&D Office

  Just before the spring holidays, pupils at our primary school celebrate Passover and Easter with a trip to the forest and games there.

• Wish list for the Primary School: 2014
  26 March 2014

  Support needs of the WAS-NS bi-national primary school for 2014

• School teachers to visit German school
  25 March 2014, by C&D Office

  Teachers from WAS-NS will be visiting Düsseldorf to check possibilities for a student exchange project.

• Purim 2014
  16 March 2014, by C&D Office

  Purim is a Jewish holiday recalling the rescue of the Jews in ancient Persia from an evil plot to destroy them. The school kids celebrated with a customary exchange of gifts) and fancy dress.

• Good Deeds Day 2014 at the Primary School
  11 March 2014, by C&D Office

  Just before Purim, the school organised its second Good Deeds Day. Some kids were actually helping in their costumes.
  Every student helped out on campus. With spring well on the way, most of the students were asked to get the flower beds surrounding the newly refurbished and extended greenhouse ready and cleaned up. The first and second graders were given flowers and herbs to plant all over the school, and some pupils helped with the vegetable patch in the Kindergarten. Every grade spent (...)

• Musical Journey at the Primary School
  17 February 2014, by C&D Office

  A trio of multi-instrumentalists takes the children on a musical journey through N. Africa, the Middle East and India.

• A donation of books in honor of Mark & Ada Levene
  4 February 2014, by C&D Office

  The Primary School library receives a donation of books, with a wonderful story behind it.

• Tu B’Shvat / Eid I-shajara / Arbor day at the primary school
  16 January 2014, by C&D Office

  Today is Tu B’Shvat, a festival celebrating the trees. In the afternoon, the whole school attends to build flowerbeds, and craft decorations for trees. The sun is shining. Music announces the temporary end of classes, and soon the kids run out onto the playground and the lawn.
  From the nearby Trappist monastery in Latrun, two brothers have come to visit. In front of the whole school, some children present them with a gift of flowers, which are gratefully received. In return Father Paul and (...)

• Recycling to Art
  9 January 2014, by Communications and Development Office

  The arts and crafts teacher Michal, who also lives in the village, and the children of the primary school of Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom never fail to amaze with their creations.
  They do their work in a small house near the main school building. This unique location and its surroundings allow the children’s imagination to run free.
  For Michal, anything can be working material, therefore she collects almost everything she sees, like fallen branches, plastic and various other materials left (...)

• Christmas at the PSCC
  22 December 2013, by Christina Mittermaier, Dafna Karta Schwartz

  The PSCC celebrated the holiday season, with guest musicians, friends from the Latrun Monastery and sisters from the Beatitudes Community (Emmaus)

• A little update on our 6th grade
  19 December 2013, by C&D Office

  Report on the 6th Grade The sixth grade class is taught by Reem Nashef, a long time teacher at the Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam school. She grew up in Jerusalem and moved to NSWAS with her family in 2000. Two of her children graduated from the NSWAS primary school. Along with being responsible for the 6th grade, Reem is the school’s science and environment teacher. She works full time at the school, while working on completing her master’s degree in education. She speaks Hebrew, Arabic, (...)

• Sulha Peace Project
  5 December 2013, by Christina Mittermaier

  The Pluralistic Spiritual Center in Neve Shalom - Wahat al Salam is hosting the Sulha Peace Project for a weekend of peace work

• Yara and Naomi - Two Children and Their Holiday Experience
  1 November 2013, by Christina Valentin

  Our friends from early childhood often remain fast friends throughout life. I thought of this today when visiting the 3rd grade class at the NSWAS primary school. There I found Yara and Naomi, who are “best friends” despite their cultural differences. Yara was born to a Palestinian family and lives in Wahat al Salam/Neve Shalom. Naomi was born to a Jewish family and lives in Gizo, a nearby moshav (village).
  I interviewed these two girls about school and their friendship. Here is what they (...)

• Annual Report - September 2012 – October 2013
  1 November 2013

  A quick summary of a full year of exciting activities

• Celebrating Eid al – Adha in the Primary School
  15 October 2013, by Christina Valentin

  Eid al-Adha, the Muslim “Festival of the Sacrifice” honors the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismail as an act of submission to Allah’s command and his son’s acceptance to being sacrificed, before Allah intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead (see Wikipedia for a full description).
  On Thursday, October 17, the last school day before the Eid, all the pupils took part in activities to acquaint them with its religious significance, (...)

• Palestinian Summer Camp 2013 Video
  24 September 2013, by Glenn Chon

  A short clip of the kids having a great time.

• How to support binational schooling in NSWAS
  14 September 2013

  By helping the binational Primary School, you effect a change on a new generation—on the future. At Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, where Jewish and Palestinian children are educated together, you invest in the future of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East. This model will gain strength as the School’s children excel and extend their experiences to their peers and friends. Your donation can give children an opportunity for a bilingual, bicultural education that is unlike any other experience (...)