Letters from Lockdown - Jericho, Rwanda, Brooklyn
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
While most of the world continues to shelter-in-place, Team Snap brings you the third installment of, "Letters from Lockdown.”
STORIES
Jericho
Osama Iliwat spent days in solitary confinement inside an Israeli prison during the First and Second Palestinian Intifadas. Learn how peace reached him in the midst of conflict.
Today, Osama runs a cell phone shop in Jericho, is a peace activist, and leads international tours in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. He advocates for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians and speaks to international groups with an organization called Combatants for Peace.
Rwanda
In the 90s, Eric Murangwa was the star goalkeeper of Rwanda’s most beloved football team, Rayon Sport. He was also a Tutsi - at the time when death squads were hunting Tutsis. Find out where - and with who - Eric took refuge.
Eric now runs a charity called Ishami Foundation, which brings people together through sport. He’s currently raising money for vulnerable families affected by coronavirus during the genocide commemoration in Rwanda. Help him reach his goal.
Brooklyn
Estee grew up in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn where her then-husband isolated her from friends, family, and activities for nearly two decades. Hear how Estee’s spirit could not be contained by four walls.
Today, Estee lives in Jerusalem with her eight children and recently remarried a very kind man. She teaches Zumba Extreme at the Jerusalem YMCA. Hear more of Estee’s story in the Snap archives.
Thank you, Osama, Eric, and Estee for sharing your stories with us!
Produced by Shaina Shealy, Naomi Zeveloff, Liz Mak, and Anna Sussman
Music by Renzo Gorrio, additional production by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Artwork by Sanaa Khan
Digital Producer: Marisa Dodge
Season 11 - Episode 12
Our team is working quickly to put together more pieces of advice from people all over the world - stay tuned for more. And if you have advice from a past lockdown you’d like to share with Snap Nation - reach out to us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook - or email [email protected]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:10.5 | Snapers, do you know at one point? |
| 0:14.3 | I got a call from the power set B saying Snap was canceled. |
| 0:19.2 | That was a very, very, no good, very bad day, but I realized |
| 0:25.6 | that the power set B didn't own this show. |
| 0:29.2 | You own this show Snap is. That's why I'm asking you to support it. |
| 0:33.8 | Right now at a level that makes sense for you at snapjudgment.org. |
| 0:38.9 | If you've ever been unable to get out of the car, the kitchen, the office, |
| 0:43.2 | until you heard the end of the story, please become one of us and support this show that makes it happen. |
| 0:50.0 | That Snap Judgment.org because it doesn't happen any other way. |
| 0:55.9 | You can get Snap stuff, including music, a chance to pitch your story or backstage pass to |
| 1:02.8 | spook live if Snap Story telling is in you. If you depend on this show, please stop for just a moment. |
| 1:11.5 | Stop the show. For just a minute and join at a level that makes sense for you. |
| 1:17.2 | Snap Judgment.org. I promise you the best sleep ever and a grin on your face when you leap out |
| 1:24.0 | of bed in the morning. What a deal. Snap Judgment.org. Thanks. |
| 1:34.5 | As we navigate this new world of social distancing, quarantine, staying in place, everything, |
| 1:41.7 | as this becomes our new normal, your mind, at least my mind, can start to play tricks on you. |
| 1:49.2 | I can't see my brand new baby nephew. What do you mean a zoom botanist, and say whatever you want to, |
| 1:56.5 | but most zoom dates are a distance cry from the before time. And the whispers that start to tell you, |
| 2:04.4 | this is unique to you. A brand new and unfair path that you and you alone are forced to march. |
| 2:12.4 | And my mind might start spinning. You might start thinking crazy things and that's what this is for. |
| 2:17.6 | Team Snap want to give you some thoughts from the folk who have traveled this road. |
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