Tag: Personal Stories

Israel

Fed up with myths, these American Jews are challenging their Israel education | +972 Magazine

Members of Jewish-American anti-occupation group IfNotNow protest Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Washington D.C., May 14, 2018. (Gili Getz)

Culturally repressed young Jews need to speak and remain anonomous. That’s their Democratic world. (ODT)

An editor’s note: Susannah asked to use only her first name; the other three interviewees asked to use aliases, citing fears that using their real names could threaten their status in their communities and future job prospects.

Whether Modern Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative, all of the four interviewees said that Israel was an integral part of their experience in the Jewish community from a young age. None of them could remember a time when it wasn’t a part of their Jewish communal experience.

via Fed up with myths, these American Jews are challenging their Israel education | +972 Magazine

Banking

‘Ruthless, careless and irresponsible’: readers share their banking nightmares | Australia news | The Guardian

Jacqueline McDowall

This week, Jacqueline McDowall became the human face of the malpractice of Australia’s financial services industry, as she tearfully recounted the woeful advice she was given by Westpac that cost her her house, and most of her superannuation.

Source: ‘Ruthless, careless and irresponsible’: readers share their banking nightmares | Australia news | The Guardian

Cuba

Game over: Havana through the eyes of two food vendors – News from Al Jazeera

Jose and Leo ply the streets of Havana with a vegetable cart in a daily game of urban hide-and-seek with the police.

Source: Game over: Havana through the eyes of two food vendors – News from Al Jazeera

refugees.

Life On Hold – Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera’s immersive, interactive video experience Life on Hold takes us to Lebanon for a close and personal look at the lives of Syrian refugees. Five years of unrelenting violence across Syria has claimed close to 200,000 lives. Towns and cities have been laid to waste. Over three million refugees have poured across Syria’s borders into neighbouring countries, desperate for safety. Lebanon has borne the brunt of this forced migration.. Life on Hold takes you inside the world of a diverse group of refugees; revealing their deep sense of loss and fragile hope for the future.

Source: Life On Hold – Al Jazeera