Hand in Hand In the News

Presentense Group- Modeling Multiculturalism

Sabah il-hir!”  “Boker tov!”  Morning greetings fill the air as students and teachers arrive at school. Arabic and Hebrew weave together as children skip across the courtyard at the Yad B’Yad School for Bilingual Education in Jerusalem. This community of approximately 800 students and teachers has come a long way since its inception in 1998.

Jerusalem Co-Principals Visit  Northern Ireland Integrated Schools

In an effort to see how integrated education forges strong links between communities, the Jewish and Arab co-principals of the Hand in Hand Jerusalem School visited integrated schools in Northern Ireland.                                                            

New Jersey Jewish News- Jewish and Arab Students Travel to the United States with School Cofounder Lee Gordon

These two Israeli teenagers might have seen each other as enemies: one the grandson of a Jew who was president of his Reform temple in New Jersey, the other the grandson of a Christian Arab woman who fled her home during Israel’s War of Independence .       

Haaretz Reports on Be'er Sheva Hand in Hand School

Despite high tensions in the Negev after the war in Gaza, the Arab-Israeli integrated kindergarten continues to build ties within the community.                              

BBC News- Quiet Revolution In The Playground 

Tucked discreetly at the end of a car park, in between a Jewish and an Arab neighbourhood, Jerusalem's Hand in Hand school is effecting a quiet revolution in Arab-Jewish relations. In Israel, nearly all educational institutions are segregated - Arabs in one school, Jews in another. But at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem, each group makes up exactly half of the student population.                          

The Huffington Post- If the Government Won't the People Will Part II: The Hand in Hand Schools

Huffington Post blogger Amy Rubin explains that while the Jerusalem Hand in Hand school may look like a typical Israeli school from the outside, its message of hope and acceptance proves that the environment at Hand In Hand is anything but typical.

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