{"id":198,"date":"2009-11-19T00:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2009-11-19T00:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:42:17","slug":"voices-from-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/voices-from-el-sayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Daphna&#8217;s Israeli Society class at <a href=\"http:\/\/ramaz.org\">Ramaz<\/a>, we went with her to see the Israeli documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go2films.com\/film_info.asp?id=123&amp;title=\">Voices from el-Sayed<\/a>. Really first-rate. Somehow, in the space of 75 minutes, it manages to give hearing people a glimpse into the lives of the deaf. From the website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lays the Bedouin village of El-Sayed.\u00a0It has the largest percentage of deaf people in the world. Still, no hearing aids can be seen because in El-Sayed deafness is not a handicap. Through the generations a unique sign language has evolved making it the most popular language in this rare society that accepts deafness as natural as life itself. The village`s tranquility is interrupted by Salim`s decision to change his deaf son\u2019s fate and make him a hearing person using the Cochlear Implant Operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5etVAr5fPmE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5etVAr5fPmE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Daphna&#8217;s Israeli Society class at Ramaz, we went with her to see the Israeli documentary Voices from el-Sayed. Really first-rate. Somehow, in the space of 75 minutes, it manages to give hearing people a glimpse into the lives of the deaf. From the website: In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lays the Bedouin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}