This is the one “Christian” holiday that Jews, and even some rabbis, can really get behind.
Author - Rachel Avraham
Rachel Avraham is the editor of the Economic Peace Center, which was established by Israeli Druze leader Ayoob Kara, who formerly served as Israel’s Communication Minister. She also is an Israel-based journalist that writes for a variety of publications and a political analyst working at the Safadi Center for International Diplomacy, Research, Public Relations and Human Rights.
Avraham is the author of Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media, a ground-breaking book published by the prominent Gefen Publishing House that was endorsed by former Minister Kara and former Israel Consul-General Dr. Yitzhak Ben Gad. She has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben-Gurion University and a BA in Government and Politics with minors in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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