By Dr. Yehuda Stolov | Executive Director
Around 45 students and teachers from Hartman High School and Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian Christian High School, met on a Sunday at the Armenian School. After a short walk through the courtyards of the Church and the Quarter and a visit to the library, they all reached the school, where they watched a presentation prepared by the 12 graders about the life of the young Armenians in Jerusalem.
Then the students went through a series of ice-breaker exercises, in small groups that changed for each exercise.
Amir, the Hebrew teacher, explained that the studies in the school are conducted in English and that each of the students also knows Armenian. According to the family, students also know Hebrew or Arabic. When they graduate they know all four(!) languages. Amir described the growing trend of exposure to Israeli culture and going to universities, with a general attitude of integration while preserving the Armenian identity.
The next part was a joint conversation in small groups about the similar and different in the Holidays that just ended – Purim and Carnaval, and those coming – Pesach and Easter.
Finally, in what already became a tradition, the students had a pizza lunch and a soccer game in the special field of the school in front of the Old City walls.
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