tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87519743440766939952012-02-16T22:41:27.373+02:00This is a blog about Notes for Peace, a non-profit that aims to bring Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian youth together through music and the arts.andrew_notesforpeacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797373469264990950noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8751974344076693995.post-45175650097285001552009-03-19T14:21:00.004+02:002009-03-19T14:44:13.483+02:00

Here's some more shots from our project in Akko!

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The last couple of days have been a blur! From Jerusalem, we headed to Akko, where we toured the Old City, ate a Hummus Said (famous Hummus Place), and then spent the afternoon working with Jewish and Arab kids at the Sir Charles Clore Youth Center. The Center is right near the neighborhood where Jewish-Arab riots started this last October during Yom Kippur. We arranged a special project where

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The past two days have been incredible- everyone is really bonding as a group! Last night, we had an amazingly eerie visit to the Kotel, and were able to look and see the entire temple mount (with the Dome of the Rock and Al-Asqa mosque), and today, our friend Jay Rosen visited to tell about what it's like to live in Jerusalem--then, the students took to the streets of the Old City for a look at

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So, we are now in Jerusalem- staying at Beit Shmuel. We just got back from our first event, a lunch with students at the Yad bYad (Hand in Hand) school in Jerusalem, it's Jewish-Arab mixed school, the kids were amazing! Here's a link! Hand in HandAnd some pics (above)!Now we're off to the Machene Yehuda Market before Shabbat!

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Finally in the air, after six months of planning and preparation. It’s hard to believe it, we’re about two hours away from landing. It’s funny because for a while we thought we wouldn’t even get to this point. At first, we had accepted 15 people out of 45 applicants--but after the Gaza incursion, the economy crash, and other general problems, we came down to 6 total. But the thing is, I think we

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So, Israel just began its Home Front Exercise, where it is simulating various disasters that might occur during a war. These are ranging from a chemical spill, to a bombing and other attacks. The exercises began with a minute and a half long siren that could be heard all over the country. It is hard to describe the way the siren makes you feel, but all I can say is that even though everyone knew

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I recently got a copy of the 2006 Education and Culture Data from the State of Israel. Some interesting statistics (all data from Statistical Abstract of Israel, 2007).  The average years of schooling in Israel are 12.5. Jews on average have 12.8 years of schooling and Arabs have 11.1. Jews aged 25-34 have on average 14.3 years of schooling while Arabs have 11.2 years (pg. 370-372).29.5 % of Jews

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Recently, I began teaching English once a week at a high-school in Sha'ab. Sha'ab is an Arab village that was captured in the 1948 War that is now in the north of Israel.  Something that some people may not know about the Israeli school system is that the schools are segregated between Jews and Arabs. So the students at the Sha'ab High School learn mostly in Arabic, which makes it sometimes

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Here's how Notes for Peace came to be, and what we have accomplished so far: In fall 2006, after traveling to Israel the summer before, I approached some people at NYU with the idea of creating a non-profit that would host a music related peace-camp in the Middle East, which was met with support, but the timing just did not seem right. I let the idea sit a for a while,  and a year later, after

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Notes for Peace has four main project goals:   1) A summer camp in Israel, where Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian youth would come together and be taught by well-known artists from around the world in the interest of building tolerance, coexistence, and peace. 

  2) To serve as an intermediary between institutions of higher learning in the United States and public schools in Israel

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Hello there world,          Welcome to the brand spankin' new Notes for Peace blog. My name is Andrew. Notes for Peace is a non-profit project that I began this fall at NYU that aims to bring Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Palestinian youth together to promote tolerance through artistic collaboration.  Getting Notes for Peace up and running has not been easy. This blog is where you can come to

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