15 Aug 2017

Overseas Correspondent Liat Collins

From Nights, 7:12 pm on 15 August 2017

Editor of The International Jerusalem Post and a Jerusalem Post columnist, Liat Collins reports from the State of Israel, she's going to talk about Gal Gadot who is Wonderwoman and has become the ultimate Israeli heroine, and she'll be talking about Jewish rituals of mourning. Which includes a ceremony at the funeral where the mourner (a first degree relative) symbolically tears their clothes; for the shiva they sit in low chairs or on the floor, and are comforted by visitors, all their food and needs are provided for, they don't wear leather shoes.