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October 15, 2010, 11:52 AM

Salaam Shalom co-founder to speak in San Francisco

Shepha Vainstein co-founded Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation after a visit to educational communities in Israel and West Bank convinced her of the critical role that education plays in building interpersonal and intercultural bridges across divides of cynicism and despair. She will speak in San Francisco, CA on Monday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m at the Noe Valley Ministry Odd Mondays series (www.oddmondays.com) on "Healing Children While Building Bridges Between Israeli and Palestinian Communities."

Her talk will cover three bridge-building Waldorf schools for Jewish and Arab children in Israel and the West Bank, which are supported by the Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation (www.ssefoundation.org):

1. An Arab Jewish Waldorf kindergarten in the Bedouin village of Hilf, Israel
2. an Arab Waldorf School in Sh'faram, a large town in the Galilee, which partners with a large Jewish Waldorf school on nearby Kibbutz Harduf
3. a Waldorf teacher training program in Jenin, across the Green Line
 
Linking children on all continents, there are nearly 1,000 Waldorf schools in 83 countries that strive to develop global citizens - compassionate, thoughtful, and moral human beings with a strong sense of social responsibility.

 

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