2007-12-02, 12:54
Ben Avraham
Ursprungligen postat av BlueStar
Kom ihåg en sak, som jag skrev i en annan tråd, att om du varit i Israel (vilket jag förmodar att du varit, Ben Avraham) så är Qatar ett av länderna som inte släpper in personer med pass eller visum stämplade i Israel.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Israel#Get_in
http://wikitravel.org/en/Israel#Get_in
Det ska inte vara några problem. Värt att tänka på dock.
Finns det någon som kan svara på den här?
Ni som känner folk som flyttat till Qatar, hur upplevde de att de blev bemötta som västerlänningar? Hur mycket utrymme fanns det för dem att "leva västerländskt"?
Den enda synagogan (men möjligtvis inte den enda församlingen?) i trakterna ligger i Bahrain, granne med Qatar.
If you want to find the only synagogue in the Persian Gulf, come to Bahrain — a tiny desert kingdom linked to Saudi Arabia by the 15-mile King Fahd Causeway.
But donÂ’t expect to find kosher restaurants, yeshivas or Yiddishkeit in this land of mosques and minarets; just 36 of BahrainÂ’s 700,000 or so inhabitants are Jews.
That’s not much — but these three dozen people form the only known Jewish community in any of the six countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).
“The community is quite happy,” said Nancy Khedouri, 31, a Bahraini Jew. “People are very friendly. I went to school here, and all my friends from childhood are here. They always accepted me for who I was. It’s a very open society.”
Intressant läsning: http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30707/...
But donÂ’t expect to find kosher restaurants, yeshivas or Yiddishkeit in this land of mosques and minarets; just 36 of BahrainÂ’s 700,000 or so inhabitants are Jews.
That’s not much — but these three dozen people form the only known Jewish community in any of the six countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).
“The community is quite happy,” said Nancy Khedouri, 31, a Bahraini Jew. “People are very friendly. I went to school here, and all my friends from childhood are here. They always accepted me for who I was. It’s a very open society.”