[SJackson]

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[netmilsmom]

>>But Carr, now a grandmother of 13, shies away from the publicity. Most of those she rescued don't know the identity of the person who, from far-away Toronto, cleared their path to freedom.<<

Oh!
Okay, nothing like a good cry early in the morning!
How wonderful she is!

[frithguild]

Second time in the history of these people this has happened. They left Spain in the 1490's for Syria because of Ferdinand and Isabella.

[Cacique]

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[Alexander Rubin]

Canada ping.

[Lurker]

She would most likely blush to hear me say it, but this woman has a great big brass pair.

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[VOA]

So much for Mega-Pastor Rick Warren's portrayal of Syria as a
nice, peaceful place.

[happygrl]

Almost twenty five years afer the founding of Israel, the Jewish people were still being made refugees.

This is a story of real heroism.

Are there any Jews left in Syria ?

[aruanan]

The story began as a local philanthropic initiative. Distraught over the news article, Carr and her husband, Dr. Ronald Feld, organized lectures and a study day on Syrian Jewry. The participants learned of the persecution of Syrian Jews at the hands of the local Arabs and the regime, some of which continues to this day. They learned of the 1947 pogroms in which Arab mobs smashed homes and synagogues in the 2,500-year-old Jewish community of Aleppo; of laws from the 1940's barring Jews from purchasing land; of the Muhabarat (secret police) surveillance of Damascus's Jewish quarter; of the arrest and reported torture of Jews suspected of attempting to leave the country; and of the fact (recently cited in a 2001 US State Department human rights report) that Jews are the only minority in Syria whose religion is denoted in their passports and identity cards.

Let's just remember when the Muslims are talking about who was where first that the Jews were everywhere in the Middle East at least 700 years before the Muslims even existed.