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Echoing the 2013 Academy Awards, when both an Israeli and a Palestinian film were nominated for the ‘Best Documentary’ Oscar, in 2021 we again have two films from our the-land-of-Green-Olive going head-to-head. This year, Farah Nabulsi’s The Present and Tomer Shushan’s White Eye are among the five films up for an Oscar in the ‘Best […]
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When we started this series, the initial idea was that we’d end up with a list of film recommendations which would educate and entertain the Green Olive community on issues related to Israel and Palestine. No movie is perfect, but the concept was that each blog post would be about a good film worth watching. […]
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If you are reading this in April 2020, there’s a good chance you’re among the 2 billion people stuck inside right now to help contain the spread of the corona virus. It can be dull, but there is no better time than now to engage with high quality, thought provoking films! Green Olive is producing […]
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Welcome to the third in a series of film reviews which will highlight some of the most interesting issues facing our region. Watching movies and reading books about somewhere you visited is a great way to reminisce and avoid forgetting the places you went, the things you saw and the people you met. It’s also […]
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– By Sam Bahour and Fida Jiryis –First published in +972 – March 30, 1976 has been commemorated for over forty years as ‘Land Day’ by Palestinians around the world. while the day’s title may evoke images of environmental action or eco-friendly activities, it is a day of mourning and remembrance. On that bloody day, Israeli […]
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by Angela Hersch – One of the greatest things about volunteering is that you get to walk in someone else’s shoes. That is exactly what happens with Green Olive Tours Volunteer Program – a time to walk in the shoes of someone else, to help them shoulder their burden and understand more of their world. […]
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by Yahav Zohar – “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, […]
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By Miri – The whirling dervish, with his right arm directed to the sky, ready to receive God’s beneficence, and his left hand turned toward the earth is but one of the many and diverse manifestations of Sufi rituals. While commonly defined as as “the inner, mystical dimension of Islam”, Sufis themselves define it as […]
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By Miri – I ran away from Eritrea seven months ago to avoid the army service. I intended to find refuge in Sudan, but when I arrived in Sudan, crossing the border by foot, with several other Eritreans, some Bedouins arrived with a vehicle and kidnapped us. Some of us succeeded in running away but […]
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By Miri – Jerusalem’s streets during Ovadia’s funeral Last week an estimated 800,000 people gathered in Jerusalem to mourn the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Sephardic community, turning the event into the largest funeral in Israeli history. Ovadia is considered to be one of the greatest rabbinical scholars in recent […]
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By Miri – “There’s nothing the Arab respects more than a strong steady white hand drawing arbitrary lines betwixt their ridiculous tribal allegiances” Sir Archibald Mapsalot III It is widely accepted that the geography of today’s Middle East was carved out by Britain and France with no consideration of the thoughts of the people actually […]
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By Miri – India’s historic Jewish communities are usually subdivided into the Cochinis, the Baghdadis, and the Bené Israel, the latter of which constitutes by far the biggest of the three groups. Bené Israel in India While there is no historic documentation of their origin, it is widely believed that the Bené Israel have descended […]
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