News & Stories
- 2009 U.S. National Tour Dates for "Healing Children While Building Bridges Between Jewish and Arab Children"
Pioneer educators Tally Bat Ami Zahor and Lana Nasrallah will be speaking on “Healing Children While Building Bridges With Jewish and Arab Children in Israel” in a US tour beginning September 23 in New York City and concluding October 7 in Santa Cruz, CA. The pair will be joined by Shepha Schnei... - Israeli Jewish and Arab Teachers Unite to Foster Healing Education for Peace in US Tour
(September 11, 2009-Los Angeles, CA) Jewish and Arab children share one stark reality in the polarized and volatile Middle East- Both are living under the chronic stress of conflict. A 2003 study found 42% of all children living in Israel and her territories suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disord... - HEALING CHILDREN WHILE BUILDING BRIDGES : Special Event
*On 4 o’clock Sunday, May 17, Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation will be hosting Lisa Profumo, an acclaimed educator. Ms Profumo will be speaking on “Healing Children While Building Bridges With Jewish and Arab Children in Israel” at the Westlake Village Civic Center off of Agoura Road at ... - FROM WEST BANK TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE: OUR PALESTINIAN TEACHERS & DOCTORS VISIT ENGLAND
Our initial objectives at the start of our Palestinian teacher training program two years ago were to:
• Build a strong human connection between educators within the state of Israel with Palestinian educators from the West Bank based on their common love for children;
• Provide diplomatical... - CHALLENGES AND CHANGES IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
There were a number of accomplishments in our high school program this past year. New barriers were broken in the segregated Jewish and Arab high school communities in Israel when several students from the Arab high school in our program felt comfortable enough to migrate to the Jewish high school ... - EDUCATING FOR PEACE ON THE WEST BANK
Our work with the Palestinian Kindergarten Teachers in the West Bank has been most fruitful and gratifying. These dedicated women understand the potential impact this education can have on themselves, their students and their community. Plans are being made for these teachers to journey in May to C... - JEWISH AND ARAB STUDENTS PERFORM GRIMMS FAIRY TALES IN ENGLAND
As you read these words our tenth grade Jewish and Arab students are busy working hard - far from their home in Israel. In the bucolic Cotswalds of Gloucestershire, England our students are rehearsing scenes and practicing the lines of Grimm’s Tales written by England’s esteemed poet Carol Ann D... - A BREATHROUGH EXPERIMENT
The Goal of Salaam Shalom is to develop a generation of youth in the Middle East who can think outside the box, who are open to new ideas and experiences in order to generate new solutions to the old, entrenched problems troubling the Middle East. Ours is a cutting edge program whose purpose is to b... - THE ARABIAN NIGHTS TRAVEL TO ENGLAND
33 Arab and Jewish High School students in our Peace Leadership Program went to England for three weeks of intensive preparation for the play, 1001 Arabian Nights, which they performed in England to a profoundly moved audience. The students' work didn't stop there. They returned to Israel to perfo...
