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WIE October 2007 Meetings:
October 2007 was a month blessed with holidays for our Jewish and Muslims
members. Particularly women, from all traditions, are very busy during this
period organizing the festivities and preparing all the delicacies served at
these happy events.
Therefore the WIE did not have the regular monthly meeting at the STI. But
we did meet during this time at two special occasions, getting to know each
other's traditions during this holiday season.
1) Tuesday October 9th, 2007: Iftar Break-the -fast dinner at Saheer
Siam's home.
We were about 12 WIE members, Jewish, Muslim and Christian, happily sharing
the Ramadan Iftar break-the-fast dinner at Saheer Siam's home. Saheer, her
family members and friends prepared all the delicious traditional dishes and
desserts for the holidays.
It was a warm, friendly and family like gathering, a wonderful way to get
closer to each other and to learn about our Muslim sisters traditions. We
talked, laughed together, and enjoyed each other's company while sitting
around the beautifully set table covered with Ramadan specialties.
2) Friday October 26th, 2007: Shabbat traditional dinner at Evelyne
Savir's home
We were fortunate to host two Christian ladies, Agneta Nordin, free lance
journalist and Ewa, her accompanying photographer both from Sweden as guests
for a traditional Shabbat dinner at Evelyne Savir's home. The Jewish,
Christian and Muslim ladies arrived in time for Shabbat's traditional
prayers done by Uri Savir, Evelyne's husband. Thus all of us shared the
prayer on Halla (traditional bread for Shabbat) and on the vine's fruit. All
tasted the traditional grape juice or wine for the occasion. Evelyne
prepared a festive traditional Shabbat meal, enjoyed by all. We all gathered
around the table in the Jewish tradition and Ewa took many pictures of this
very special evening. Most guests, Christian and Muslims said it was the
first time they shared a Shabbat meal at a Jewish family's home . Many
questions about Jewish traditions were raised and discussed. The Swedish
guests, very thankful for this unique opportunity to see coexistence in this
area, promised to send us the article and pictures about WIE in Jerusalem.
N.B. We were very happy to have Rose Naber's - our former Christian
coordinator -presence at both dinners!
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