NYT News Article About Turkish School
The friendship and peace project of three schools, including the Turkish Amity School in Brooklyn, became the feature of a news story published in the New York Times.
Amity School, famous for winning medals in the Science Olympics held in the state of New York and throughout America, has this time attracted attention for its peace and dialogue activities.
The students of Amity became front page news of the paper's art supplement with a project they participated in with their peers from different religions. The NY Times ran the article with the headline, "Three Faiths, One Lesson".
As part of the project, students from Brooklyn Amity, Hannah Senesh Community Day and Holy Name of Jesus schools - Muslim, Jewish, and Roman Catholic, respectively - came together for a group project inspired by Mark Podwall's book "Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Crosses, and Crescents" (Doubleday), sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League.
The works of the Amity students won widespread approval.
Currently being exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House, the illustration by the school's 9-year-old students Cihat Cansever's and Merve Gecir's attracted the greatest interest.
The Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, read the book aloud to the children, donning in succession a yarmulke, a cleric's collar and a Muslim prayer cap. In the project, the children were given Podwall's 28-page book and were asked to draw illustrations using their imagination. In the article published by the NYT, Mr. Podwall was quoted as saying, "I'll be curious to see if the kids really interact with each other. It could be like one of those socials, where you have boys against one wall and girls against the other. But it's good in terms of getting to kids before there's any prejudice."
Podwall's book on Jerusalem, considered holy by three monotheist religions, will begin sales of its second edition in the upcoming days. (By Emrah Ulker, New York)
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