Three Encounters of Karmiel-Majd el-Krum Interfaith Encounter in November 2007:

Opening of the Year Session

On November 25th a meeting took place with the two Principles – Ms. Najeeba Sirhan of A-Sallam and Ms. Osnat Aram-Daphna of Kalanit. The objective of this meeting was to summarize the work done so far and to draw conclusions following receiving the international prize Women’s Peace Initiative Award of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding – in Sarajevo for the joint team work for bringing the hearts closer together between the two peoples. We stressed that we got the prize thanks to the hard work of the teachers, working with faith to build joint Arab-Jewish existence.

And first and foremost – we got the prize thanks to the Interfaith Encounter Association who gave us a unique opportunity to feel the real appreciation to our work.


Team Meeting

On November 26th we had an enlarged meeting of the two teams – from A-Sallam and from Kalanit. They worked in pairs, of teachers – one from each school, and planned together activities that are suitable for the different age groups. We agreed that beyond the joint interfaith study days we will also hold:

Joint excursions;
Joint sports day;
Fun day with music and dances;
Producing a CD with songs in the three languages;
Science teachers planned meetings in Technoda on the theme of space;
History teachers planned an inter-cultural meeting on Arabs and Jews in the area;
Mathematics teachers planned a joint day for fifth graders on November 30th.


Joint Mathematics Day

From among fifth graders of the two schools, Kalanit and A-Sallam, we selected students who have difficulties in Mathematics. A joint Mathematics day was held in A-Sallam School in Majd el-Krum with the goal to give an opportunity for joint study and group success to the students who had difficulties, out of the basic assumption that every student can learn Mathematics. At the end of the day every student got an evaluation certificate reflecting his or her joint work and success.

Reported by Najeeba Sirhan
Group Coordinators: Najeeba Sirhan and Osnat Aram-Daphna

(* We deeply thank the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds for their kind support to the work of this group this year)
 

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