Thursday, September 16, 2010

Classes and Yaffo

Yesterday I was very busy with classes.. I had 2 hours of Hebrew, 2 hours of Zionism, and then at night I had three house of a Israeli film class. The Hebrew class is very helpful but it does get pretty long and boring. I love love love the Zionist class- my teacher is from Britain and is very passionate about Zionism except sometimes he can be  narrow minded and biased on the subject matter. We are currently learning about Theodore Herzl. In my film class we watched the movie Walk on Water which is about a Israeli who is hunting a Nazi; it's very controversial and it has made me think really hard about whether or not I think killing Nazis at this point is ethical - especially one that committed major, terrible crimes and killed hundreds or thousands. What do you think? At Muss when I was learning about the holocaust I was 100% behind catching and killing Nazis, but now my view has changed a little. In the movie, the nazi they found was an old, sick man who had a family and when I saw how normal and human he was it made me think that even though the things that the Nazis committed were atrocious and disgusting, they aren't evil at heart but were merely brainwashed by society- if the media, your family, friends and teachers were all telling you how sickly Jewish people are, then that dehumanizes them and it is no longer a crime or shame to hurt and kill them. Anyways, on a better note..... This morning i woke up at 4.00 and watched the sunrise at the port in Yaffo. It was so beautiful! And it's amazing how Yaffo is mentioned in the bible and it is thousands of years old. We toured around Yaffo and then had free time to go to the flee market(It was like one HUUGE garage sale!) and I got shashooka which they are famous for there- it's a dish with over easy eggs,tomatoes, and spices served hot right from the pan, with bread to dip it in. It was yummmmmy:)(Check my facebook for a picture of it) It's 10 AM so I'm going back to sleep. Then I have a meeting for Rwanda today and then I'm going to Jerusalem with my roommate Emily. I am going to try fast are you guys?
Love you,
miss you, Jen

1 comment:

  1. It's good how you can see the bad guys point of view, or maybe it's bad (not sure?). Because every bad deed has a reason why it was done. But you are right, people are often like sheep and can be brainwashed easily. I just love this quote though - The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do
    evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing!
    ~ Albert Einstein
    Can't wait to hear more about your studies!

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