Showing posts with label Hebrew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hebrew. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2026

"There is a reason Jesus spoke Aramaic rather than Sacred Hebrew. Hebrew was the language of the Temple and of the High Priest; it carried prestige and authority. Greek was the language of administration and of the empire. But He chose to speak Aramaic, the language of ordinary men." Camila Rocha

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  Camila Rocha   @Camila_Rocha   There is a reason Jesus spoke Aramaic rather than Sacred Hebrew. Hebrew was t...
Friday, July 25, 2025

"And yet we watched as those subtle, innocent, beautiful nuances of our tongue were twisted into indicators of suspicion. In an American discourse so heavily imbued with anti-Palestinian racism and so rife with Islamophobia, Palestinians or those who dare see them as human are not allowed to have legitimate intentions or legitimate grievances. They are to be constantly seen as suspicious. Even if they speak of human rights, equality, dignity, they can never really be trusted to mean those things because of who they are — sneaky shapeshifters with deeply held, murderous, ulterior motives. It is quite remarkable how much this echoes antisemitism throughout history, and that should surprise no one. All forms of racism are connected" Yousef Munayyer

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  ... An Era of Being Exogenously Defined  On a nightly basis after September 11, 2001, so-called terrorism experts who knew next to nothi...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Christians in Israel and Palestine fear rise in violence ahead of pope's visit... Earlier this week vandals wrote "Death to Arabs and Christians" in Hebrew on the Vatican's Notre Dame centre in Jerusalem's Old City

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  [AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES IN...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

In Arabic, French, and Hebrew with English subtitles: Inheritance

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  OPENING NIGHT will feature the premiere of the Palestinian film Inheritance directed by veteran actor Hiam Abbass. The film screening...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Suspected hardline Israelis scrawled pro-settler graffiti and religious insults on a monastery outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, police said, in the latest of a series of attacks on non-Jewish sites.

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/pro-settler-vandals-deface-jerusalem-monastery/ Pro-settler vandals deface Jerusalem monastery ...