Articles

• People of the Wall: a lecture and discussion with Yoni Mizrahi
  9 October 2006, by Dorit Shippin

  Doumia - Sakinah conducted an evening program on the subject: “Walls and People in Jerusalem.": The lecture discussed the walls of Jerusalem over the ages until the present one and their influence on local culture and society.”

• Repentance and fasting in the Muslim and Jewish traditions
  29 September 2006, by Joanna Steinhardt

  This year, the holy month of Ramadan in the Muslim calendar coincided with the Jewish High Holidays. As fasting is an element in both periods, Doumia - Sakinah conducted a discussion of its meaning in the Jewish and Muslim traditions.

• First day of the 2006-2007 school year in pictures
  3 September 2006

  For almost 200 children in the NSWAS educational system, September 3 was the first day of the school year.

• Children of War at the Oasis of Peace
  14 August 2006, by Deb Reich

  The story of a week-long summer camp for children from Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank. The camp was held in Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam while the war in Lebanon raged in the background.

• The 2005-2006 school year in pictures
  27 July 2006, by Ety Edlund

  A pictorial presentation - in slideshow format - of the 2005-2006 school year

• Reports from the Primary School 2005-2006
  26 July 2006, by Ety Edlund

  Reports from each grade level of the Primary School in the 2005-2006 School Year, in PDF format.

• The opening of the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre Building
  23 May 2006

  On April 30, 2006, the opening of the new building of the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre was celebrated, together with the decennium of the death of NSWAS founder Bruno Hussar.

• "Seek Peace and Pursue It": inaugural conference at the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre Building
  May 2006, by Dorit Shippin

  On the first of May, 2006, after a well-attended festive opening ceremony on the previous day, we held the inaugural conference of the new building of the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre.

• A Peace Horse
  16 March 2006, by Ety Edlund

  Ety Edlund describes an unusual art project at the school.

• Little stories
  13 December 2005, by Ety Edlund

  Ety Edlund tells some story from everyday life at the Primary School in the 2005 - 2006 school year, and also shares some of the pictures she took.

• A second medical treatment day in Jorat al-Shama’a village
  2 October 2005

  The NSWAS humanitarian assistance team visited Jorat al-Shama’a for a second treatment dayin the village, treating 150 patients and distributing NIS 8,000 in medicines.

• SFP opens its 2005 - 2006 activity year
  14 September 2005

  In a festive ceremony attended by program facilitators, NSWAS members and guests, the SFP marked the opening of its activity year.

• The Commencement of the School Year, 2005-2006
  7 September 2005

  Schoolchildren arriving for the new school year were delighted to discover the brand new school building awaiting them, so that suddenly there was much more room to play and learn. A photo - record

• 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.

• 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.