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Jewish-Muslim music fest is lesson in tolerance
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Published: 06.11.09, 08:13
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1. Jewish Muslim Fest
Eva Yelloz ,   Sherman Oaks, CA   (11.13.09)
2. Jewish Muslim Music Fest
Eva Yelloz ,   Sherman Oaks, CA   (11.13.09)
Correction: Rabbi Haim Louk was born in Jan. '40 - he will be 70 - not 80, as your article reads! I was his special projects assistant while he was a pulpit rabbi and hazzan (cantor) in Los Angeles. Eva Yelloz
3. Art can make it!
Norma Fares   (11.14.09)
Here is another insightful story/event that is happening in Morocco but rarely mentioned in the majority of Arab and Arabic speaking Media, unfortunately. When politics failed in to bringing peoples together, Art --with its international accent-- seems well to be a great joyful tool. Let's give Art a chance. That lesson in tolerance i.e. music fest in Morocco is an example before our eyes. Hope Arab regimes would allow ears and eyes of their people to witness a beautiful form of loving coexistence between Muslims and Jews who both share many common things, native Arabic language [for Peace] is of them! Thank you Mr. Azoulay. Thank you Ynet. Norma
4. Andalusian Music?
AK   (11.17.09)
Muslims already feel they have Israel and Jews in the bag. Next on to Spain -- the Andalus, another 'sacred' Muslim site. Usually this kind 'tolerance ' pitches are organized by Muslims for a purpose -- here to present a fake myth of the tolerant Andalus where Muslims were benevolent, 'multicultural' rulers and Jews thrived. Strangely, Maimonides didn't think so. And why is it that Marrocan Jews already forgot why they had left Marroco in not so distant past? If the life was so good, why did almost all Marrocan Jews leave? Synthesis between Jews and Arabs? Dhimmis. Second class citizens always careful not to tick off the Muslim majority , always locking their daughters away for protection. Yes, those years under the European colonial power were not bad, but that had nothing to do with the good will of the Muslims.
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