The mass Mimouna celebrations in the parks, this year (2024) must be canceled. The order of the hour now requires us to lower the height of the celebrations and gather more in the bosom of family and friends in a more modest and calmer event that can go down everyone's throat.
The call of the president of the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry, Sam Ben Shatrit, to the local authorities to cancel this year's mass Mimouna celebrations in parks in view of the war, once again brought to the public agenda the ethical-moral dilemma that we have all been grappling with since October 7th: whether to hold events in public space or sympathize with the abductees , members of their families and the memory of the fallen.
This big question rolls around like a hot potato and comes up from time to time, around the calendar and its dates. Just a few weeks ago, we dealt with this question again, around the holding of the traditional Adlaida in many cities across the country. Now we are getting closer to the Maymoona, the colorful, colorful and delicious holiday that we all love to love and the dilemmas have already arisen.
Should you hold a big event in the parks as per the best tradition or settle for a limited gathering in the bosom of the family? Is joy and mass dancing or a solid meeting with friends? Both sides have convincing and reasoned arguments. There is also the position that holds that it is possible to simply do something in the middle, in between. On the one hand, don't give up on the event, and on the other hand, don't let it be too flashy. go with feel without
This war will go down in the history books
This war will go down in the history books of the State of Israel as one of the greatest disasters we have ever known. Just this week, the IDF spokesman presented the war data to mark the six-month anniversary of the campaign. The numbers are hard and painful: 600 martyrs, over 3,000 wounded, tens of thousands of families displaced and evacuated from their homes from the north and south, when no one knows when they will return to their homes. And of course 136 abductees and abductees Hamas, without a shred of information about their fate. All this alongside the indirect damages of the war and especially the severe damage to the economy and businesses, the growth engine of the periphery in the north and south.
A time to cry and a time to wear, a time to sing and a time to dance, so said the wise man. The federation was over 45 years old
the World of Moroccan Jewry, the right to instill and lead the Mimuna to many homes in Israel. From Dan to Eilat, over the years, major Mimona events have been held in parks and groves, in community centers and cultural halls with Israel's best artists, heads of state and politicians who flocked to be honored with mufflet and sweets.
Mimuna soon turned from a holiday of North Africans into a national holiday of the entire House of Israel. Moroccan Jewry knows how to express identification, empathy and express social solidarity. Now the order of the hour requires us to lower the height of the celebrations and gather more in the bosom of family and friends in more modest and calm events that can go down everyone's throat.
The mass mimuna celebrations this year must be canceled
In this moral-value dilemma, the position should be very clear. The mass mimuna celebrations this year must be canceled. Not when it is worn out. It is impossible to remain indifferent to the pain, sorrow and suffering experienced by the families of the victims, the abductees and the abductees and the residents who were displaced from their homes. The call of the president of the federation Ben Shatrit is also important in an attempt to heal the rift created in the nation around the war.
The demonstrations in the streets over the release of the abductees, the demonstrations over the ultra-Orthodox conscription law, only inflame the division in the nation. If this call by Ben Sheetrit falls on attentive ears and we manage to contribute even a little to the fusion of the rift, we will condemn it. This year we will take a break from the charity and gather for smaller events with the kidnapped and the kidnapped, the dear families and the fallen martyrs in our hearts. Six months after the war, we will return to the big productions.
** The writer is the spokesperson for the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry
Everyone should be allowed to celebrate as they wish.
"need" is the opposite tomorrow,
Thanks to the editors at Hippo, who deleted my response, even before I finished writing. !🤒
And the less happy, the more celebrating.... A quote from Uzi Hitman's poem. Enough with all these fake celebrations. A little more values of seriousness and less chauvinism, won't hurt in our decadent society
The screams of the Moroccans must be canceled immediately regardless
Moroccan Jewry knows how to express identification, empathy and express social solidarity. ??? really?
Is this what Amsalem meant in the Rolex and Mercedes speech? Suddenly there is solidarity with the 0-male anarchists?
The conclusion should be the opposite. After Amsalem succeeded in turning the tables, and appointing his cronies to positions of trust in government ministries and public companies, we should celebrate, and by and large, show everyone how to poke the finger in the eye of the privileged. And the kidnapped are not really interesting, because they interfere with perpetuating the new order.
It is interesting that the organizers of the pride parades and celebrations do not consider it appropriate to cancel the parades and celebrations this year?
Why cancel the Mimona and not cancel other celebrations?
If you cancel celebrations then all celebrations.