Leo Baeck Education Center

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Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa

The Leo Baeck Education Center (LBEC) is an intercultural educational institution based in Haifa / Northern Israel . In the German-speaking countries it operates under the name Leo Baeck Zentrum Haifa (LBZ). She works both in and out of school. Their offers are aimed at children and young people from different social, ethnic and religious backgrounds. The primary goal is an education for peace and coexistence between Jews and Arabs. Young immigrants from North Africa and from the countries of the former Soviet Union are also in focus.

The LBEC is rooted in the tradition of liberal Judaism . This is also what the Rabbi Leo Baeck (1873-1956), whose name leads the Haifa educational institution in their name.

history

Special postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost (1957) on the first anniversary of Leo Baeck's death

The LBEC, which is now considered the most important educational institution for Reform Judaism in Israel, started in Haifa in 1938 as a small kindergarten group for children of German-speaking immigrants. A year later a general education school was founded, which in 1947 was named Leo Baeck School . The external reason for the naming was a visit by Leo Baeck to Haifa.

The initiator of the establishment of a kindergarten and school was the liberal rabbi Max Meir Elk (1898–1984), a student of Leo Baeck. He was born in Frankfurt, had worked as a rabbi in Stettin for a few years and in the mid-1930s emigrated to Haifa, which at that time belonged to the Palestine League of Nations . There he founded the Bet Yisrael community , which consisted mainly of German-speaking immigrants.

In 1968, the cooperation with German schools and parishes began. A first student exchange took place five years later. Pupils from Frankfurt's Elisabetheschule and the Wöhlergymnasium , also located in Frankfurt, took part. They mark the beginning of numerous Israeli-German school encounters in the following decades. The first German-Israeli teacher exchange organized by the LBEC took place in 1978.

Fields of work and projects (selection)

Kindergarten and schools

The LBEC includes a kindergarten , a preschool , a primary school with six classes and a secondary school (7th – 12th grade), which are attended by more than 2500 pupils. Among them are up to 80 children, adolescents and young adults from the autism spectrum as part of the inclusion program . The educational offer also includes a highly gifted project, community volunteering and worldwide student exchange programs.

For socially disadvantaged children and young people, the LBEC opened the YEDA school in Haifa in 2013 , which works according to the US KIPP model.

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Community work
Cooperation with Arab kindergartens and schools
Summer camp for Jewish and Arab children
Friends forever

A special offer is hidden behind the name Friends forever . Five Jewish and five Arab students travel to the United States for twelve days . The aim of this project is to get to know each other's culture and religion “on neutral ground”.

I – dare

I – dare (= Israel – Germany – Anti – Racism – Education ) is a joint project of the LBEC and the Lessing School in Mannheim . The aim of the joint work is to break down racism and prejudice.

Cooperation with educational institutions internationally

Since the school year 2004/2005, the Leo-Baeck-Erziehungszentrum has also been running a cooperation and an exchange program with the state high school for gifted students in Schwäbisch Gmünd (Baden-Württemberg) and since 2007 with the Lessing high school in Mannheim.

Appreciations

The LBEC was awarded the “National Prize 2002” by the Israeli Ministry of Education for “outstanding academic performance and value-based education”.

literature

  • Leo Baeck Center Haifa (Ed.): Leo Baeck Center Haifa. Pioneer in improving social conditions since 1938 , Haifa 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jon Bloomberg: The Jewish World in the Modern Age . Jersey City 2004, p. 96 Sp I, II
  2. ^ Leo Baeck Center Haifa (Ed.): Leo Baeck Center Haifa. Pioneer in improving social conditions since 1938 , Haifa 2016, p. 8 ("Leo Baeck Center Timeline")
  3. ↑ Christian Kraft: Ashkenaz in Jerusalem. The Religious Institutions of Immigrants from Germany in the Jerusalem District of Rechavia (1933–2004) - Transfer and Transformation . Göttingen 2014, p. 182; Note 384
  4. ↑ Michael A. Meyer: Answer to the modern. History of the reform movement in Judaism . Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2000, p. 489
  5. ↑ The figures are from 2013.
  6. ↑ For the KIPP model see taz.de: Hard, but damn successful (May 12, 2006) ; accessed on February 29, 2016
  7. ^ Leo Baeck Educational Center: YEDA ; accessed on February 29, 2016
  8. ^ Rainer Stuhlmann: Between the chairs. Everyday Notes by a Christian in Israel and Palestine . Neukirchen 2015², p. 98
  9. ^ Project homepage in English together with the Lessinggymnasium in Mannheim ; accessed on February 29, 2016
  10. ^ Leo Baeck Center Haifa (Ed.): Leo Baeck Center Haifa. Pioneer in improving social conditions since 1938 , Haifa 2016, p. 9 ("Leo Baeck Center Timeline")