Lifta on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Lifta Society
If you live in the United States or have access to American channels, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) is going to air a 1/2 hour show that will talk about Lifta! The Lifta story is being told through global media outlets starting in April 2011, first through the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-palestinian-village-20110407,0,51823,full.story) and now with the help of Menachem Daum is airing across televisions in the United States! Save Lifta! Our beloved village, our home - forever we will cling to the roots of Lifta!
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly production on PBS:
Visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics for additional information. Show #1434 is fed over PBS on Friday, April 22nd at 5:00 p.m. (check local listings - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/schedule/ - Click the link to access the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly show on PBS and search for show schedules in your area using your zip code. Per the Website, the show will air from Friday April 22 - Sunday April 24).
Background of the Lifta story on PBS:
Near Jerusalem, this abandoned village is the only intact former Arab town that has not been destroyed or re-settled by Jews, and now the Israeli government wants to build luxury homes there. Menachem Daum, an American Jew, went to Lifta to talk to Israelis about this place, and hear from former Lifta Arabs who oppose the proposed construction and who remember Lifta as a place where Jews, Arabs and Christians co-existed peacefully.
Learn more about Menachem Daum's efforts for Lifta through the film "On Shifting Ground":
Directors: Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky - On Shifting Ground is the story of an Orthodox Jewish grandfather from Brooklyn seeking to restore the overgrown Muslim cemetery in the ruins of Lifta, a ghostly Arab village near Jerusalem destroyed in 1948. He seeks out and joins with Liftan survivors and their descendants as well as with sympathetic Israelis to ensure that Lifta's haunting beauty is preserved as a place of memory, reflection, respect and hopefully, reconciliation.