Sounds like a fun tour. I remember several years back on a Bronx Message Board, a Jewish poster living in Israel said he was stuffed eating at his different Muslim friends' homes for their Ramadan meals and that he was running around on his motorcycle bringing bouquets to other friends. So it shows you that people can get along if they are tolerant of the religious beliefs of others.
RAMADAN TOURS, THE LATEST IN CO-EXISTENCE.
One year after the Gaza conflict, Ramadan tours in Israel are booming as Jewish Israelis flock to celebrate the Muslim holiday with Israeli Arabs.
Hanging lights for Ramadan in Jerusalem. Photo by Sliman Khader/FLASH90
Food has always been a uniting factor in Israeli society. From Abu Ghosh hummus restaurants that serve hungry Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, to Jaffa’s famous ethnic street-food vendors, toDaliat Al-Carmel’s. Druze eateries with a wide-ranging clientele, to Nazareth’s famous cross-cultural market fare, culinary coexistence in Israel is thriving.
So it makes sense that at holiday season each culture seeks out the other for tasty bites and enriching encounters. And during the Islamic month of Ramadan – when religious Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk — the Jewish Israeli appetite for Arabic foods and novel happenings is at a high. This year, Ramadan ends July 18.
“Tourism and food are the recipe for easy interaction between two different peoples,” Neta Hanien, co-owner of Juha’s Guesthouse in the Israeli Arab village Jisr az-Zarqa, tells ISRAEL21c. “When one side is the host and the other is the guest, and we sit together, we learn about one another as people without preconceived or political differences. It’s an opportunity to be together as people.”
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RAMADAN TOURS, THE LATEST IN CO-EXISTENCE.
One year after the Gaza conflict, Ramadan tours in Israel are booming as Jewish Israelis flock to celebrate the Muslim holiday with Israeli Arabs.
Hanging lights for Ramadan in Jerusalem. Photo by Sliman Khader/FLASH90
Food has always been a uniting factor in Israeli society. From Abu Ghosh hummus restaurants that serve hungry Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, to Jaffa’s famous ethnic street-food vendors, toDaliat Al-Carmel’s. Druze eateries with a wide-ranging clientele, to Nazareth’s famous cross-cultural market fare, culinary coexistence in Israel is thriving.
So it makes sense that at holiday season each culture seeks out the other for tasty bites and enriching encounters. And during the Islamic month of Ramadan – when religious Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk — the Jewish Israeli appetite for Arabic foods and novel happenings is at a high. This year, Ramadan ends July 18.
“Tourism and food are the recipe for easy interaction between two different peoples,” Neta Hanien, co-owner of Juha’s Guesthouse in the Israeli Arab village Jisr az-Zarqa, tells ISRAEL21c. “When one side is the host and the other is the guest, and we sit together, we learn about one another as people without preconceived or political differences. It’s an opportunity to be together as people.”
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Ramadan tours the latest in cultural coexistence ISRAEL21c
