Tag: Arab

30Jan 2019

Top News for January 2019

Israel Aids Indonesia Diplomacy aside- humans come first! Israelis came to the aid of Indonesia by way of health services, supplies, and clean water after their series of natural disasters spanning from the summer. The underwent a volcano eruption, numerous tragic earthquakes taking a heavy toll on their tourism sector, and a deadly tsunami. The groups on […]

26Sep 2018

The Mekudeshet Festival 2018~Diversity in Music and Art

Mekudeshet by: Daniel Kobrinski As a city that is central to the world’s three great Abrahamic faiths, at the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has known conflict on and off for thousands of years, and is divided between East and West; it’s easy to forget that Jerusalem is a living, breathing city, with modern urban […]

24May 2018

The Bukhari Jews Wish You Shabbat Shalom

Israel is home to some 120,000 Bukhari Jews who emigrated there after the Soviet Union fell apart in the early 1990’s. Prior to this they were a Persian speaking Jewish people who lived for centuries in relative isolation from other Jewish groups. The beautiful picture above shows Bukhari Dancers performing at a celebration at the Ohr […]