New Content Coming Soon!
August 8th, 2006 at 11:12 pmWe are adding more content to the blog so please visit us soon for new updates. We’ll add everything from biographies of famous Lebanese, particularly from the Jewish community to recipes for Lebanese dishes. We’ll also add more historic accounts and information as it becomes available of the Jewish community in Lebanon.
Appeal:
If you or anyone you know is a Lebanese Jew you’re compassionately asked to please respond so we can contact you. Privacy is ensured as we are trying with the utmost effort and through our modest resources to fulfill our ambitions as outlined in the mission statement. We want to hear from you, your story, your experiences, and the impact your Lebanese heritage has had upon you incase you’re a descendant of a Lebanese family.
Stay Tuned and God Bless.
Mirella Said,
August 9, 2006 @ 7:31 am
Hope that this will be final conflict between Isreal and Lebanon as its leading to nothing just more killings and destruction both sides…I hope that one day we sign world peace as i am really against violence and hurts me lots seeing civilians dying from both sides..i carry no hatress to nobody its just that it should end
V.N.F. Said,
August 9, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
Perhaps you are already familiar with Juan R. Cole’s web page http://www.http://juancole.com/ and his blog “Informed Comment”. If not, I strongly encourage you to have a -daily- look at it. Cole, who always comments on Middle East issues –mainly on the Iraqi fiasco-, has been fantastically covering the latest Lebanon war since inception.
You will find his comments well informed, compassionate and enlightening. Today, he reports on a Lebanese initiative that would have deserved being on the headlines of all decent media, bless you Lebanese!:
August 8, 2006 Lebanon: An Open Country for Civil Resistance http://www.lebanonsolidarity.org
This is the first press release for the Campaign of Resistance, a coalition of over 200 Lebanese NGOs andcivic organizations. We, the people of Lebanon, call upon the local and international community to join a campaign of civil resistance to Israel’s war against our country and our people. We declare Lebanon an open country for civil resistance. The aim of this campaign is to provide relief for civilians in South Lebanon, live in solidarity with them, and work for the immediate return of internally displaced citizens to their homes in the South. If their homes are no longer standing, then the Lebanese government, United Nations, Red Cross, and others, should provide assistance to our citizens on their own land - not scattered across the entire country.
It is our hope that this campaign will not only provide a measure of justice to displaced and distressed Lebanese citizens, but will also contribute to an immediate ceasefire, and an end to the continuing destruction of Lebanon. The first Citizen’s Convoy will leave for South Lebanon on Saturday, August 12.
For interviews and more information, please contact:
Rasha Salti convois.citoyens.sud.liban _a t_ gmail.com
Huwaida Arraf huwaidaa _a t_ riseup.ne
Thierry Said,
August 9, 2006 @ 8:07 pm
hey thats a great blog
i got some informations about the community in lebanon
i translated some articles and wrote one.
i can send you some links u dont have yet.
I m currently working on judaism in the yukon, canada
if you want more information about it
visit http://www.hostzoid.com/chalomyukonchalom
andy Said,
August 9, 2006 @ 11:09 pm
Hi guys
I found this article on Ha’aretz which you may be interested in (presumably you would need their permission to replicate it hear
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/748013.html
You may have already seen it but thought it worth drawing your attention.
Vicky Said,
August 10, 2006 @ 4:05 am
Hi Im a Lebanese Jew, well, I consider myself one, even though I wasn’t born there. But i’ve been raised with the Lebanese culture and Jewish religion.
crazy mozart Said,
August 10, 2006 @ 8:56 am
i respect what u r what ur religion is …. im not jewish i just wanted 2 say this we r human beeings afterall and i am against the war and blood….
A Said,
August 11, 2006 @ 7:34 pm
I am a muslim Lebanese from the South of Lebanon. I hope one day we will all go back to our homeland and live all together. Muslim, jews and Christian. We all have one thing in common and we ought to preserve it: it’s our heritage.
My parents keep telling me how wonderfull it was in the old times when Muslim, jews and Christian were living hapilly together in south of Lebanon. Whatever our religion is; we all have the right to live in our great country. Nshalla one day ,We, in lebanon will show the world how all religion can perfectly live together. Muslim, Jewish and Christian need each other to make a better lebanon. I say it from the bottom of my heart because I believe in it.
A true lebanese
Eli Said,
August 13, 2006 @ 2:57 am
Let there be peace for everyone one day. Jews, Muslims, Christians and everyone else should be living alongside one another content knowing that no one is better and no one is worse on the planet we all share - we all are children under God and our lives are as fragile as patience we no longer seem to have for one another.
Will this day ever come?
Moshe Said,
August 14, 2006 @ 12:16 am
Did you notice this blog entry- converstaion with a lebanese jewish family, just found the post today”
http://jerusalemgypsy.blogspot.com/2006/08/cruise-conversations.html
alprazolam Said,
October 18, 2006 @ 7:48 pm
Avete blog piacevole qui! Grazie, è molto duro a mine lle tai informazioni in italiano, ma scrivete molto chiaro e posso capire tutto.
JGD Said,
November 21, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
What a wonderful blog! My father was Lebanese and my mother Canadian. I live in Canada, although i have been to Lebanon and on one such visit did wonder about the Jewish community that was once there. In a Christian enclave, there was an elderly Jewish lady who was a friend of our family. I visited her a few times. A wonderful person. My family in Lebanon warned me not to tell strangers that she was Jewsih as they were fearful that Muslim extremists might do something.
I also met moderate, easy-going Muslims.
I am saddened that there is no peace and there is so much hatred. As a Christian, I know that there are Christians in Lebanon during the Civil War that did horrible things to the Muslims and vice versa.
I think the answer lies in tolerance and a live and let live attitude, but sadly it is not shared by enough people.
The Jewish people of Lebanon are just as Lebanese as the s=christians and muslims and it is sad that they are gone.
Anyway take care
david .s Said,
December 8, 2006 @ 4:49 am
hi jgd ihpe so too….
Albert Nigri Said,
January 5, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Born 1950 in Saida.
Lived since 1952 in Beirut.
1960-1968 Ain El-Mraisse, near the Mosque.
1966-1968 IC (International College) in Ras Beirut. It was really a fantastic dream, and I never forgot those days. Have had many friends christians, sunnis, shiia, druzes, jews.
leaved Lebanon since 1968. Will be very pleased to receive messages from those who knewed me.
Long live to the lebanese soul of those days.
Ferial Said,
January 10, 2007 @ 11:34 pm
Albert, would you be related to Ruth Nigri? We attended the same school , I would be pleased to get her news.
Hagop Said,
October 27, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
We were not part of the Arab Jewish conflict, had numerous Jewish friends including Albert Nigri above and worked also in 1974 -1975 with a company that was owned by a Jew. Had wonderful time together with all the communities, due to the wars each one of us went somewhere and my friends dissapeared am very sad. Due to my family name even though am not Jewish had been descriminated as being a Jew up till today, I can feel what the Jewish commumity felt. Hope all will end in a fine way and the wall will be removed.
Hope will meet soon before time takes away whatever is left of our lives and re live.