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 The Shfaram Waldorf Initiative
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First Waldorf Kindergarten/School/Teachers Seminar in an Arabic Community in Israel
A Joint Endeavor of Arab and Jewish Educators in the Western Galilee 
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On a Galilean hill overlooking Biblical Mount Carmel a dream is being realized. Arab and Jewish educators after years of collaboration have embarked on a new initiative - the first Waldorf kindergarten/school in an Arabic community in Israel. It is a unique undertaking especially in these difficult times when the rift between the two societies in the Holy land is broader than ever before and the hopes for peace and normalization have shrunk to a historical low. The initiative was launched in 2002 with the founding of a Waldorf  Education Teachers Seminar for Arabic students. A second seminar class enrolled in 2003 and we are now in the process of preparing for the opening in 2004 of the kindergarten in the Arab town of Shfaram. Our long term vision is the unification of the existing Jewish Waldorf school in Kibbutz Harduf with the Arab school in Shfaram towards high school age. Grassroots level projects such as the Shfaram Waldorf Initiative exemplify the coming of age of Israeli Civil Society that has made some impressive progress in addressing urgent political, social and economic issues in the past decade. It is a new face and a new force in Israeli society about which little is known. We hope our site provides you with an opportunity to get a better look at the people and the dynamics of such an initiative.

  Learn More about the Initiative

Learn more about our initiative, its Vision, Context and Plans, its Founders and Staff, the Teachers Seminar, the "Olive Tree" Kindergarten and learn how you can Support the Initiative

 
Harduf, November 2003 - Music class in the first Waldorf Education Teachers Seminar for Arab students

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