Jerusalem: The Home in Our Hearts: A Family's Multigenerational Story of Faith Hope and Resilience

Jerusalem: The Home in Our Hearts ... is a colorful multi-dimensional and nuanced story of the Sarsar family. With Greek Russian and Palestinian roots it integrates aspects of daily life community connections and aspirations in the midst of poverty conflict and pain that extend from the Ottoman control of Jerusalem to the British Mandate from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War to Jordans rule and from the Six-Day War to Israels rule and the two Palestinian intifadas of 1987-1993 and 2000-2005 respectively. Reading the Sarsar familys story makes evident that ordinary people can overcome extraordinary conditions through faith hope and resilience. Jerusalem is a perfect place for checking the pulse for hearing the heartbeat for celebrations and songs. She is a perfect place for calling attention to the human in each of us for realizing potential. Jerusalem: The Home in Our Hearts ... is a colorful multi-dimensional and nuanced story of the Sarsar family. With Greek Russian and Palestinian roots it integrates aspects of daily life community connections and aspirations in the midst of poverty conflict and pain that extend from the Ottoman control of Jerusalem to the British Mandate from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War to Jordans rule and from the Six-Day War to Israels rule and the two Palestinian intifadas of 1987-1993 and 2000-2005 respectively. Reading the Sarsar familys story makes evident that ordinary people can overcome extraordinary conditions through faith hope and resilience. Jerusalem is a perfect place for checking the pulse for hearing the heartbeat for celebrations and songs. She is a perfect place for calling attention to the human in each of us for realizing potential.