'Just World News' with Helena Cobban: Palestinian Christmas creche--the photo

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« Cooking therapy--it works! \| JWN front page \| Golan-- the human dimension » Palestinian Christmas creche--the photo Posted by Helena Cobban January 1, 2004 10:29 PM EST \| Link Filed in Culture In this December 24 post I wrote a bit about how, when I saw how "Christmas" was being widely represented in beijing, it forced me to think more about my own relationship with the Christmas story and Christian belief in general. I also wrote about the lovely, hand-embroidered set of Christmas figures the Director of the (Palestinian) East Jerusalem YWCA gave our family many years ago. (Hey, it was good post. I hope you read it!) But I also promised to try to take some pics of the Christmas figures. Here is a picture of the whole creche scene. Mary, Joseph, and babe in the middle. At the left, 3 shepherds in front, 3 Wise Men behind. On the right, 4 Wise Women. Yay for the YWCA!!! The original photo was by expert photographer and spouse extraordinaire, Bill. (Thanks!) I did a bit of color re-balancing (?) Then I thought it would be good to make the pics come as Popup Images rather than Embedded Images. Do readers have a preference? « Cooking therapy--it works! \| JWN front page \| Golan-- the human dimension » Comments Comment from... popup, at June 27, 2004 07:06 AM: Interesting thoughts, just wanted to mention I came from blogspot.	Recent Posts on JWN • Realism, war, and pacifism (3) • Palin's performance: Insulting and very scary (28) • September 11 and the war in Afghanistan (6) • US's global dominance 'Reduced': It's nearly official! (1) • JWN redesign update #1 (2) • Oliver North??? (5) • J. Diehl criticizing Saakashvili (3) • Peres warns against attacking Iran (0) • Georgia-Hizbullah: Dept. of Delicious Ironies (2) • US probing Russian Red Lines in Georgia (0) • Women discuss Sarah Palin (26) • New vistas-- personal, and blog-related (12) • The longterm status of Georgia: Challenges ahead (20) • Text of the draft Iraq-US SOFA (10) • HRW revising its Russian cluster bomb accusations (11) • International tensions and the US election (9) • Iraq: Another Quaker in the 'Red Zone' (3) • HRW's flawed 'Research' on Georgian cluster bombs (20) • More on China in Iraq (12) • Post on China in US occupied zones-- at Japan Focus (0) • Palin and the 3 a.m. phone call (39) • China and Iraq (4) • Egyptian delegation to break Gaza siege (2) • Waiting for Gustav (5) • Italy gives Libya $$ compensation for colonial rule (17) • China buys in to Iraqi, Afghan end-games (15) • "Resolution": Palin's goal in Iraq (8) • China's way of 'Emerging' (6) • A note on US politics (6) • Conway does a Dannatt (sort of) (7) • China gets Iraq oil deal (6) • Rest-of-world saving US from recession? (5) • Russia and the world (12) • Milanovic: From Global Trade to Global War (5) • The return of geography (3) • Still no US-Iraq security agreement (yawn) (2) • Iraq-US: More disagreement than 'Agreement' (23) • NATO's supply lines in Afghanistan (27) • My CSM piece on the big-picture implications of Georgia (21) • Mahbubani on western hypocrisy, etc. (5) • Condi in Baghdad: YES on a timetable (aspirational) (8) • More on NATO, etc. (14) • NATO's crisis (8) • And another thing about Finland (23) • Where in the world is... Ban Ki-Moon? (22) • Russian military assessment: New arms race? (26) • And now for a little audio (0) • Yglesias nails McCain (4) • Sarkozy's ceasefire, Georgia's future (22) • Georgia crisis and the shifting global balance (0)

Palestinian Christmas creche--the photo

Posted by Helena Cobban
January 1, 2004 10:29 PM EST | Link
Filed in Culture

In this December 24 post I wrote a bit about how, when I saw how "Christmas" was being widely represented in beijing, it forced me to think more about my own relationship with the Christmas story and Christian belief in general.

I also wrote about the lovely, hand-embroidered set of Christmas figures the Director of the (Palestinian) East Jerusalem YWCA gave our family many years ago. (Hey, it was good post. I hope you read it!)

But I also promised to try to take some pics of the Christmas figures. Here is a picture of the whole creche scene. Mary, Joseph, and babe in the middle. At the left, 3 shepherds in front, 3 Wise Men behind. On the right, 4 Wise Women. Yay for the YWCA!!!

The original photo was by expert photographer and spouse extraordinaire, Bill. (Thanks!) I did a bit of color re-balancing (?) Then I thought it would be good to make the pics come as Popup Images rather than Embedded Images. Do readers have a preference?

Comments

Comment from... popup, at June 27, 2004 07:06 AM:

Interesting thoughts, just wanted to mention I came from blogspot.

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