Politics of Israel

Oral History Project Interviews aren’t overly interesting when you’ve known the interviewee for all your college and adult life. When you hang out with someone half of every single week you tend to learn a lot about them. Most of the questions I could think of I already knew the answer to and had for a couple of years. I planned and worked out a good thirty or forty questions but, again, most of them I could answer myself, since again we’ve known each other for such a long time. My planning…

My Misconception of Jordan The Middle East was nothing like I experienced it to be. I was expecting to see women fully covered from head to toe and very poor areas. Although that type of lifestyle does exist in the Middle East, I rarely saw it. In the Middle East, I stayed in Amman, Jordan. When I first arrived to my grandmother’s area I noticed every woman had their body and hair covered. The men wore sandals with jeans and regular t-shirts and no one drove nice cars.…

Throughout the Middle East, there are a large number of countries that range from the wealthiest and educated, to the poorest and illiterate. For many people outside of the Middle East, the common assumption lies in the belief that prosperity and wealth are very progressive and liberal. However, this assumption is unfortunately not the case, because in countries such as Saudi Arabia; a very wealthy and educated state, tends to have very similar conservative and strict approach to woman’s rights…

There are different types of freedom, some for example are freedom of conscience, to achieve a coherent and balanced life from the inside; Freedom of expression, in order to disseminate ideas and promote open debate and discussion; Freedom of assembly as a guarantee to associate with those who share ideals and work for them; Freedom to choose responsibly and peacefully to the rulers, among others. After this brief analysis of the concept of freedom, we see what it encompasses and what it means,…

two groups of people. Numerous people contend that the "two-state solution" of creating an independent Palestinian state next to Israel would be the best way to deal with the situation. Various other people oppose a two-state solution for different reasons. For instance, some are against the creation of a Palestinian state, and others are against the existence of Israel itself. Despite differing views on both sides, the Jewish and Muslim people do share many similarities. They both only eat…

In 1939 Irene Gutowa was 21 years old living in Poland. A professing and educated Catholic and student nurse, she never dreamed of her substantial impact on so many lives and the hard decisions she would have to face in the days to come. Irene Grew up in Poland and lived with her father, mother, and siblings. Her parents raised her and her siblings as devout Catholics with sanctity for all human life. Irene would know early in her life she had a heart of service for others. She dreamed of being…

By now the main Lubavitch movement was headquartered in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, although it also had village established by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson in Israel since 1949 known as Kfar Chabad. Since Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson’s passing in 1950, he and his work was succeded by his younger son-in-law Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson greatly encouraged the Jews who lived…

Many things have emotionally affected the Survivors of the Holocaust, something that affected them the most was being liberated by Jewish soldiers. This paper explains emotions of the survivors and liberators and how it affects them today. How liberators feel emotionally as the released and saved people from concentration and death camps. That the survivors still feel like they are living in the camps emotionally. Survivors respond when being severed or waiting in line. The feeling of the…

Epigenetic Inheritance Of Traumatic Events In the excerpt “Hiroshima and The Inheritance of Trauma” the author, Sarah Stillman, discusses the psychological effects of traumatizing events and how it can spread like a contagious disease. Stillman references the traumatic bombing of Hiroshima and how the detrimental trauma has affected the mother, Shoji, and the next generation, her daughter Minori. The relationship between Shoji’s experience of the bombing being translating to Minori is a valid…

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a declaration of thirty rights that belongs to everyone. Ali Smith, the British writer, has found inspiration from this declaration of human rights. She expounds the violation of freedom of movement within the borders of each state and that we are all born equal and free. This is the issue that Ali Smit expounds in her short story “The Go-Between”, which was…