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Showing posts with label kibbutz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kibbutz. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
British Actress Helen Mirren: The best thing about Israel is Israelis
British Actress: The best thing about Israel is Israelis
Monday, November 02, 2015
JERUSALEM, Israel -- British actress Helen Mirren warmed the hearts of many at the 29th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles when she said the best thing about Israel is Israelis.
The 70-year-old award-winning actress received IFF’s Career Achievement Award while American screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, 54, received the Film and Television Achievement Award.
Mirren said a visit to Israel early in her career was “one of the building blocks that have made me into the actress that I am, doing the kind of work I do, that I seek to do and the way in which I seek to do it.”
“Likewise, I was thinking about the building blocks that made Israel the great country that it is and the courage and the commitment of those early people working on the kibbutz that I was lucky enough in those days to meet and work alongside briefly,” Mirren said.
“I love Israel. I think it’s a great, great country,” she continued. “I think that through all the difficulties and all the pain that Israel has suffered in the past and will in the future, the great thing that Israel has is Israelis, and they will guide it through.”
Among her many accomplishments, Mirren won best actress at the 2007 Academy Awards for her performance as Queen Elizabeth.
Sorkin, 54, has also enjoyed many successes as a Hollywood screenwriter. He’s been nominated at this year’s Academy Award for the screenplay for “Steve Jobs.”
“It couldn’t be more important to support Israel,” Sorkin said at the ceremonies.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Israel's History - a Picture a Day - The Shavuot Holiday in the Holy Land
Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2014
During the days of the Temple in Jerusalem Jews were commanded to bring their first fruits to the sanctuary during the Shavuot (Pentecost) pilgrimage festival. It was a joyous thanksgiving holiday.
In the early 20th century, the collective Kibbutz and Moshav agricultural movements adopted the holiday to exhibit their produce and farm equipment. The new "tradition" continues to this day. Reader Josh Korn of Canada provided us with this picture and a request:
This photo is from Kibbutz Naan, dated from Shavuot 1932.
I know only one of the people in the photo: the guy wearing glasses on the left is my dad. I'd love to find out who the others are.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Shmuel from Russia
Shmuel Carmeli and Jerusalem friend
In my opinion, life is about people. I would like to introduce you to Shmuel Carmeli. Born 1934 in Austria.
In 1944 with the Soviets pushing their offensive on the Nazis eastern front, Shmuel's mother, sisters and extended family were shipped to Aushwitz to be murdered. His father and brother took to the woods and met up with Jewish partisans running illegal "teen immigration" past the British naval blockade of the soon to be formed nation of Israel.
This 10 year old dodged Austrian Nazi death squads and fearing conscription into the advancing Soviet infantry Shmuel and his brother linked up with what would become Israel's Mossad and boarded a ship to Israel.
Upon arrival, he settled in Tel Aviv and was given an ID number and was placed in a kibbutz for the children from Europe to learn Hebrew and build a new life.
Shmuel witnessed the rebirth of Israel. In 1967, Shmuel was a member of the Jerusalem Brigade that fought the Jordanian army from the UN complex in Jordanian controlled east Jerusalem into the the Abu tor wadi ( now called the Forest of Peace) up the ridges of Mt Zion to recapture the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
When not in uniform Shmuel spent his entire career working as a youth worker for the city of Jerusalem .
Shmuel told me that: "Every Jew has a Hagadah and an Agada. I have just shared a portion of his Agada.
(Hagadah is our Passover story
Agada is our personal story.)
Shabbat Shalom!
לכל יהודי יש הגדה ואגדה
A friend From Jerusalem.
Friday, May 17, 2013
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