Once the Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School in Northridge joins the Internet this week, students there will be able to send and receive electronic mail from Arab and Jewish children at a junior-senior high school in Israel.

The Jewish Federation Council has set up the computer correspondences between the Jewish day school in Northridge with a school in Ajami Lev-yaffo that has a mostly Arab student body with some Jewish children, said council spokesman Jay Schuster.

The students at Heschel made a videotape of themselves Thursday that will be sent to the Israeli youngsters to show their e-mail pen pals what they look like, Schuster said.

The program is part of the council's Project Upward Bound to improve the English skills of Israeli children and the Hebrew of American children, while also helping to better Jewish-Arab relations, Schuster said.