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Zochrot: Imwas, Yalyu & Beit Nuba

By: oneluckyfellow on: Aug 11,2008 In: 60 years later, History, Imperialism, Israel, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jews, Martin Luther King Jr., Middle East, Occupation, Palestine, Social Justice

On August 1st, I participated in a small tour through Canada Park lead by Eitan Bronstein, the Director of Zochrot [Remembering], an organization of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Canada Park is run by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and lies thirty minutes outside of Tel [...]

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Tags: Beit Nuba, Canada Park, Imwas, Jewish National Fund, Memory, Yalyu, Zochrot

Naqba Reflections #1

By: clenchner on: May 2,2008 In: 60 years later, History, Israel, JVoices, Memory, Palestine

As a child growing up in Israel, the Holocaust was omnipresent. There was the makolet (grocery store) owners with numbers on their arms, Begin yelping ‘Never Again’ as an election slogan, and the opening line of countless comedic monologues that begin with ‘as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and the mother of a soldier to be, I hereby light this torch in the name of (fill in the blank).’ [Thank you Hanoch Levin)