I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And I'm Naor Menninger.

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

Four years ago, under the sweltering heat of Ninveh.

In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the small city of Sinhao came under attack by ISIS forces. The Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

caught off guard retreated, abandoning the civilians of Sinhao without warning. The outcome was devastating.

Thousands massacred, women and children taken into slavery, a population dissolved by evil.

Of course, all this appeared in the headlines.

It flashed across our television screens, but beneath the surface of the stream of breaking news from this tormented region live a people whose lives have been shattered to pieces by daily tragedy.

The horrors are unimaginable, the evil seemingly unstoppable, and the trauma almost insurmountable.

Nevertheless, as always, wherever there is human peril, there are stories of human virtue.

This story is about Lisa Miara, born and raised in the UK, but currently residing in the Sharia refugee camp.

Lisa has spent the past several years trying to save the lives, literally, of thousands of Yazidi

refugees from both mortal danger and the agony of their trauma.

Through her foundation, Springs of Hope, Lisa works restlessly to provide displaced Yazidi people with hope and purpose. She joins

us today to share her stories. This podcast is made in collaboration with the Jewish Journal.

How are you? I'm always split between two worlds.

It's a very hard situation to be in when I'm a Jerusalemite.

And I'm a Jerusalemite that doesn't even like to sleep overnight in Tel Aviv,

get me back to my Jerusalem bed, you know?

Yet you spend countless nights a year in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq.

I mean, how much time are you there?

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