{"id":7686,"date":"2018-12-30T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/12\/30\/ami-yares-jerusalem"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:41:20","slug":"ami-yares-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/12\/30\/ami-yares-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ami Yares &#038; Heartbeat: Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZKdwur1dmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WZKdwur1dmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This video<\/a> features songwriter, musician and educator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amiyares.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ami Yares<\/a> performing his original song &#8220;Jerusalem&#8221; together with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heartbeat.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heartbeat<\/a>, a social change organization that unites Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. The lyrics, provided below,\u00a0explore how Jerusalem &#8211; known as &#8220;the city of peace&#8221; and often called &#8220;united&#8221; following the Six Day War &#8211; is actually a city of war, division, pain, loss and hopelessness for many. This performance was from the annual peace concert held at The Jerusalem School in East Jerusalem, led by Peter Paul and Mary&#8217;s Peter Yarrow.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Jerusalem<\/h2>\n<p>O, Jerusalem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Peace unto you, peace unto whom?<br \/>\nA million faces staring you, wondering what to do<br \/>\nCity named for peace stands on the edge of a sword<br \/>\nToo many prophets, poets, and pilgrims have died at your doors<br \/>\nThousands of nights mourning from promises of glory,<br \/>\nAdds more fire to the story, makes the smoke a little thicker<br \/>\nFeel the friction in the ways we talk about you<\/p>\n<p>O Jerusalem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The roots have grown deep, the limbs have grown strong<br \/>\nBranches have been broken, leaves on the fall<br \/>\nAn eye for an eye, until you go blind<br \/>\nA tooth for a tooth, until you can\u2019t chew<br \/>\nAnd if that\u2019s not enough, there\u2019s always more to lose<br \/>\nIts time the losses start to offer a better way to lose<br \/>\nCause this do unto others as you do unto yourself<br \/>\nLost its only leg to stand on a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>O Jerusalem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Completeness claimed, trying to fulfill your name<br \/>\nBut you break down and take down, every connection you\u2019ve made<br \/>\nStill you talk about united, but you\u2019re thoughtlessly divided<br \/>\nYou got to wear down those walls on the inside and out<br \/>\nAnd if everyone from Eden finally got their share<br \/>\nAnd the minority is minded, then we\u2019ll talk about united<br \/>\nSo show me the God that lets no more tears fall for Jerusalem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video features songwriter, musician and educator Ami Yares performing his original song &#8220;Jerusalem&#8221; together with\u00a0Heartbeat, a social change organization that unites Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. The lyrics, provided below,\u00a0explore how Jerusalem &#8211; known as &#8220;the city of peace&#8221; and often called &#8220;united&#8221; following the Six Day War &#8211; is actually a city of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1643,2553],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9187,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/9187\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}