{"id":17653,"date":"2015-02-09T00:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2015-02-09T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:44:35","slug":"teaching-about-judaism-and-jewish-history-on-the-arabian-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/teaching-about-judaism-and-jewish-history-on-the-arabian-peninsula.html","title":{"rendered":"Teaching about Judaism and Jewish history on the Arabian Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Abu_Dhabi_Corniche_Skyline.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17654\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-Abu_Dhabi_Corniche_Skyline-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Dhabi corniche, 2008\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2008 view of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates<br>(Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a fascinating experience this must\u00a0have been!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/214236\/what-i-learned-teaching-arabs-about-judaism-in-abu\/?p=all\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/214236\/what-i-learned-teaching-arabs-about-judaism-in-abu\/?p=all<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope that things like this will happen more and more often. \u00a0I firmly believe that, for normal decent people, in the overwhelming majority of instances, barriers are broken down and hostility decreased by the simple act of getting to know one another and learning about one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 What a fascinating experience this must\u00a0have been! 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