GOOD SAMARITAN

A Historic Presentation

 

Almost everybody has heard the story in the Bible about the “good Samaritan”. Now is your chance to meet one and find out what the connection is with Three Oaks!!

Come to the Vickers Theatre in Three Oaks on Tuesday, November 24 at 6:30pm and meet Mr. Tsedaka. He is one of the few remaining Samaritans left alive today.

Award-Winning filmmaker Jim Jabara will show a short film he is making about the Samaritans. Mr. Tsedaka will also rededicate the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Humanitarian Achievement to the Warren Family who will receive the award on behalf of their great-grandfather E.K. Warren.

Did you know there were fewer than 750 Samaritans left in the world and that Three Oaks has a special 100 year old connection to these people and once housed the greatest collection of Samaritan artifacts and writings in the world?

Mr. Tsedaka makes his home on Mt. Gerizim in Nabulus, Palestine and in Holon, Israel. With only about 750 Samaritans left alive today, the Samaritans are one of the oldest and smallest populations of people in the world. In fact, according to the Samaritans, they date back about 1600 years before Christ and are one of the original ten tribes of Israel, the direct descendants of Aaron.

Ancient Samaritan books and artifacts were brought back to Three Oaks, Michigan by entrepreneur Edward K. Warren (Warren Dunes). Mr. Warren befriended the Samaritans while visiting the Holy Land in 1901 when he and his family were taking a vacation by horseback between Jerusalem and Damascus. Much of Warren’s collection is now at Michigan State University and a project to digitize one of the books for the internet is underway.

 

 

WHAT: Film, talk and rededication of the Samaritan Medal by Benjamin Tsedaka and Jim Jabara.

WHEN: Tuesday evening November 24 at 6:30pm

WHERE: Vickers Theatre in Three Oaks, Michigan

FREE