{"id":31079,"date":"2023-12-18T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?page_id=31079"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:41:47","slug":"unit-2-isolation-integration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/unit-2-isolation-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 2: ISOLATION &#038; INTEGRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">MY FAMILY<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 440px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30932 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beta Israel Curriculum Cover\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><u>ISOLATION &amp; INTEGRATION<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Teachers should remind students that the Beta Israel\u2019s history in Ethiopia was constantly shaped by religious persecution and forced conversions experienced at the hands of the country\u2019s Christian leadership. Teachers should add that while the Beta Israel established clear personal boundaries between themselves and their Christian neighbors, they also \u201ctook an active part in the broad national culture in which [they] lived\u201d<sup>30<\/sup> as reflected in the art that they produced which was highly influenced by Christianity, as well as the Christian<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We can learn from this experience that even when a community isolates itself, it is inevitable to be influenced by neighboring cultures, and to absorb other customs as a result. Do you think it\u2019s ever possible for a community to isolate itself fully? And if so, would that be a good or bad thing to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>To prompt discussion, teachers might want to ask students to reflect on their own Jewish community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>30 See Shalom, \u201cArt as Experience: The Religious Culture of Ethiopian Jewry,\u201d\u00a0in <em>The<\/em><em> Monk and the Lion: Contemporary Ethiopian Visual Art in Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY FAMILY THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM ISOLATION &amp; INTEGRATION \u00a0Teachers should remind students that the Beta Israel\u2019s history in Ethiopia was constantly shaped by religious persecution and forced conversions experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30932,"parent":0,"menu_order":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31079","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}