Aaron Huber wrote: >I am looking for a centralized database that lists all high schools
The Dror Experimental School http://www.kdror.co.il as its name states is an innovating public high school which uses the students as guinea pigs to find new ways to make the high school experience even more so. Their results for new teaching methods feed into all of the high schools in Israel. If anyone has a database, it is they. So contact those guys. They are beyond cool. Story time: Last year the public high school P.H.S. "Juan de Garay", contracted me to give a year's weekly course on judaism, jewish culture, language, la di da di daaaaah, about all thingys jewish-ish to the kids as well as the teachers who would be accompanying them on an intercultural exchange with Dror Experimental School just northeast of Tel Aviv. When the Israeli school came to Valencia, I volunteered as tour guide, translator and other stuff. It was a blast. The Israeli kids out-punked the Spanish kids (who pride themselves on their weirdness factor of dress, holes in the skin and other distinguishing marks of today's youth that doesn't even come close to the late 60s by half I am proud to say) by about 56billion to one. The two lady teachers who are my age (60-ish) were game for anything and we got on like a house a-fire. Their english was as perfect as my hebreo most definitely is not (how embarrassing). Exactly one year later, P.H.S. "Juan de Garay" (Valencia) went to the Dror Experimental School (Israel). Only a third of the students and teachers who took the course went on the exchange but those who did, came back in love with Israel. The left Spain with a very high consideration of their courage and bravery before the Great Unknown. When they got back one of them confessed to me that they all felt like total idiots for having felt so because they themselves connected the dots and realized (with no help from me) that we are molded by the xenophobia perpetrated by the media which in turn is molded by how it might benefit the organization that produces said media in the first place. If you read spanish you might enjoy their public declarations, and even so there are some photos: http://medias.levante-emv.com/documentos/2010-02-24_DOC_2010-02-17_23_57_54_aula.pdf Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masortà La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
