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I didn't know Jews were like THIS
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He grew up hearing one version of the story. Then he saw something that didn’t fit. Mark Halawa's journey from Kuwaiti Arab to Jerusalem Jew on Behind the Bima. ▶️ Premiering tomorrow, 2/10 at 6am EST. #behindthebima #spiritualgrowth #markhalawa #rabbiefremgoldberg #faithjourney #religiousidentity #jewishstories
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Wake up one morning, my [music] mom
starts screaming, "Oh my god, oh my god,
wake up. Wake up. Look at the news.
Kuwait just became Iraq." When the war
happened, 1990 war, the Gulf War, we're
on vacation in Spain. I got up and heard
them all listening to Arabic BBC radio.
We heard the news. We understood what's
going on. My dad goes, "Okay, we're
going to pack up and go to Jordan." We
went to Jordan. I started clean up the
house with my mom. There's a TV here. I
turned the TV on. They have a couple
extra channels that we had in Kuwait.
One of the channels had what looks like
a Sesame Street [music] and few seconds
I'm like what language is this? Suddenly
somebody says shalom. First was shocked
to my core. Oh my gosh these are Jews.
They look like us. They have ears and
eyes and whatever. Then commercials will
come up and mom's hugging their children
and feeding them yogurt and stuff. I'm
you don't hear these things about Jews.
They're supposedly hunting Muslims in
the street. This is what I was told.
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