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Israel's Hand in Hand schools show
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Barbara Lewis I Contributing Writer

thousand Israeli schoolchil-
dren are living proof that
Jews and Arabs can exist in
harmony.
They are students at the six Israeli
Hand in Hand schools, a network of
integrated, bilingual schools that aim
to build partnership, coexistence and
equality between Jewish Israelis and the
20 percent of Israeli citizens who are
Arab Christians and Muslims.
Lee Gordon, direc-
for of the American
Friends of the Center
for Jewish-Arab
Education Israel, was
in Detroit Nov. 7-9 to
talk about the Hand
in Hand schools, an
effort he started in
Lee Gordon
1997 with an Arab
colleague, Amin Khalaf.
Gordon's visit was coordinated by
Ameinu, a progressive Zionist organi-
zation. He delivered a d'var Torah at
Congregation Beth Shalom on Shabbat
and spoke at a brunch there on Sunday.
On Monday, he spoke at a lunch-and-
learn at the Isaac Agree Downtown
Synagogue. On Saturday evening,
Gordon met with representatives of
the Muslim community at the Islamic
Institute of Knowledge in Dearborn.
His visit was underwritten by
Ameinu Detroit's new Evelyn and
Harold Noveck Fund. Evelyn Noveck
died last January and left Ameinu a
bequest to further its aims.
Hand in Hand — the name is the

same in both Hebrew and Arabic, Yad
b'Yad — was created to foster a more
shared society in Israel, where Jews and
Arabs are separated by language, reli-
gion, culture, education and, usually, by
geography. Even in cities such as Haifa
and Jaffa, where Jews and Arabs are
neighbors, their children attend sepa-
rate schools, Gordon said.
Schools are the best place to foster
more cooperation between Arabs and
Jews, Gordon said, because they involve
not only the students, but also their par-
ents, the surrounding community and
Israel's education bureaucracy. All the
Hand in Hand schools are accredited
and supported by local and national
education authorities.
In 1998, Hand in Hand opened a
kindergarten in Jerusalem and a first
grade in the Galilee, adding one grade
every year.
Parents of the first students were
taking a risk, Gordon acknowledged,
because the concept was so new "It
was like asking parents to jump into a
swimming pool without knowing how
to swim:'
This year, Hand in Hand has 1,350
students in six schools. The oldest
alumni are now 22 and starting an
alumni association. Their school-day
friendships remain strong.
Parents of the students also become
friends, getting to know each other not
only through school meetings, but also
through sports leagues, potluck din-
ners, communal gardens and similar
activities.

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