Unorthodox in Israel: What’s the Buzz

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, Unorthodox is publishing daily dispatches from Israel. On Thursday, we meet some of the non-Jews who make up the Jewish state. We visit El Masar Elementary School in Daliyat El Carmel and speak with Druze students, parents, and teachers affected by the war. We also meet Tareq Nassar and Mona Suliman of the Sinsila Center Beekeeping Project in East Jerusalem, which encourages Muslim women to cultivate profitable and climate-friendly beehives on their rooftops. Plus, a special visit to a 700-year-old Coptic Christian tattoo shop in Jerusalem’s Christian quarter, where one of our producers gets some ink. For more eyewitness accounts from Israel, listen to the Testimonies Archive, a partnership between Tablet Studios and the USC Shoah Foundation. Unorthodox’s reporting from Israel was made possible thanks to support from the Natan Foundation, the Maimonides Fund, and Tablet. Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. SPONSORS: Simplify your giving with the Jewish Communal Fund, the nation's largest Jewish donor-advised fund. Act by December 29th to lock in the maximum charitable deduction for 2023. Get started at JCFNY.org. The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards honor up to 15 Jewish teens from across the United States with an award of $36,000 to recognize their impact and leadership to repair the world. Learn more at DillerTeenAwards.org. Don’t miss Harmony, the acclaimed new musical from Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman that Entertainment Weekly calls “powerful, moving and more resonant than ever.” Get tickets today at HarmonyANewMusical.com.

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0:00.0	Simplify your giving with the Jewish Communal Fund, the nation's largest Jewish donor advised fund.
0:09.0	In good times or during times of crisis, J. C.F. enables you to respond quickly and handles all record keeping for your philanthropy.
0:15.2	Open a fund with as little as $5,000 and let J.C.F. streamline your charitable giving.
0:19.8	Act by December 29th to lock in the maximum charitable deduction for 2023.
0:24.4	Get started at JCPny.org
0:29.5	Unorthodox's reporting from Israel, which we're sharing on the an
0:33.0	made possible thanks to support from the Nitan Foundation
0:36.0	the Mymonities Fund and tablet.
0:40.0	This is unorthodox, and it's me again,
0:42.0	producer Josh Cross.
0:44.6	It's day four of an orthodox's special week of dispatches from Israel.
0:49.5	If you've been listening to our previous episodes,
0:51.6	you know we've talked to a lot of Jews already.
0:54.0	Today, we're bringing you some other communities living in Israel.
0:58.0	After all, no study of the Jewish state is complete without meeting the non-jus that live here too.
1:04.5	For today's episode, we talked to teachers and students at a Drew's elementary school, checked
1:09.6	out some apiaries run by Muslim women in East Jerusalem and then we finished up in the
1:14.5	Christian quarter of Jerusalem's old city with a visit to a tattoo shop that has
1:18.8	been run by the same Coptic Christian family for 27 generations. Throughout we got insights into how even
1:26.2	the Gentiles among the population are finding their way in challenging times. Sir Ellie Blier's visit with some members of Israel's Drew's community.
1:44.5	The Drews are an ethnic and religious minority that speaks Arabic and draws religious beliefs
1:49.3	from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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