“It’s a little, fire-breathing dragon of a festival that’s still happening.”
17 dancers from 11 countries will take part in the Jerusalem Solo International Dance Festival next month, down from 20 to 25 dancers in recent years.
The reason, according to director Miriam Engel, is that performers face pressure to boycott Israel.
“We’re a professional festival; I tell them that I don’t represent the State of Israel,” she said.
Those who do choose to attend often have eye-opening experiences. “To have radical empathy for both sides is to be an artist," Engel said.
Cultural boycotts of Israel only stop people from learning about each other. That doesn't bring peace closer; it keeps it forever out of reach.
Egyptian Copt Christian woman who had to flee her homeland due to extreme persecution warns about the horrors of Sharia.
Muslim migrants nearby curse and spit on her, but she doesn’t back down. Listen to this brave woman!
7 years ago today, 17 year old Israeli teen, Rina Shnerb, was murdered by a bomb as she hiked with her dad. One of the terrorists responsible, Sammer Arabid, worked for a BDS group promoting the boycott of Israel: BDS & terror go together.
May sweet Rina's memory be a blessing.
#undíacomohoy en 1811 fue fusilado Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, iniciador de la gesta insurgente de México, reconocido con justicia como el Padre de la Patria.
Fue ejecutado en el patio del Colegio de los Jesuitas en Chihuahua, a los 58 años, a 10 meses de iniciar la insurrección.
A Norwegian professor just called the October 7 massacre “the most beautiful thing that happened in this century.”
Norwegians wake up. Your country is falling into the hands of radicals who use liberalism to celebrate terror.
I'm holding clay from the First Temple period. 3,000 years old. Pulled out of the ground in Jerusalem.
In 1999, the Waqf brought bulldozers onto the Temple Mount under the cover of building an underground mosque, and tore out thousands of tons of biblical soil. They dumped it in the Kidron Valley and walked away, an attempt to erase the Bible from the ground it was written on.
Two Israeli archaeologists refused to let that happen. They showed up with their own trucks, rescued every fragment they could, and started a project that's still running today: the Temple Mount Sifting Project.
Every bucket gets washed, sifted, and searched by hand. One rock at a time. Because once the layers are destroyed, the only way to save the story is to look at every single stone.
Every artifact pulled out of this dirt is a fingerprint. Every one of them says the same thing: we were here. The Bible is real.
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#undíacomohoy en 1833 se derogan las leyes civiles que imponen coacción para el cumplimiento de votos monásticos, en el marco de la Reforma liberal encabezada por Valentín Gómez Farías.
#undíacomohoy en 1821 se decretó que la bandera del Imperio Méxicano sería tricolor: verde, blanco y rojo, con franjas verticales, siguiendo los colores del estandarte de las Tres Garantías.
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Hostage survivor Daniella Gilboa plays “Hatikvah” - Israel’s national anthem.
The words “To be a free people in our land” hit harder than ever, as an entire nation waits for the hostages to come home. 🇮🇱
On my birthday, I wish us all peace and victory, and for myself - quiet, unhurried mornings when you can calmly drink coffee, read a book, pet your cat, and not rush anywhere (I really miss those quiet mornings).
Once again, I am celebrating my birthday on the road, so thank you for your nighttime greetings, they warmed me up at the border crossing.
The fact that I behaved properly all year long and now expect my wish to come true as soon as possible. Attested by this photo from Alisa Malitskaya.