The Samaritan Passover Sacrifice will take place on Mount Gerizim beginning in the late afternoon Monday on April 30th, 2007.

May 1st begins the 7 days of Unleavened Bread

with the 7th of May being the Pilgrimage to the peak of the mount.

To visit the Samaritan Passover contact yeheskel@gush-etzion.co.il with their tour to Mount Gerizim.

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New Samaritans- A DOCUMENTARY on Samaritan brides from the Ukraine:

- 52 min 29 sec [22 March 2007]
For over 3,600 years, the ancient community of Samaritans have only intermarried. Today they number only a few hundred and inbreeding has caused serious problems. On the brink of extinction, their leaders take the unprecedented step of allowing two lucky men to marry foreigners. We follow them as they set off to faraway lands in search of brides. How will their new wives adapt to life in the Samaritan community?

Surrounded by old men chanting prayers and children dressed in traditional robes, Shura looks completely out of place. She smoothes down her scarlet dress and looks around the room at her new family. A few months ago, Shura was signed up by a matchmaking agency in Ukraine. Now, she has just married into the Samaritan’s First Family.
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=57186

Filmmakers Efim Kuchuk and Mark Mejerson in attendance

Aramaic, Russian with English subititles

The parable of the “Good Samaritan” is well known but few realize that the Samaritans are an existing community of people which can trace their history for over 3600 years. In an attempt to refresh the blood of this ancient nation, the Samaritan spiritual leader has taken the unprecedented step of allowing intermarriage with foreigners. Follow the journey of the first two lucky men as they set off to faraway lands in quest of brides. - Jason Kmet

Director: Alexander Shabatev, Sergey Grankin, Efim Kuchuk
Producer: Mark Mejerson, Tanya Kiselevsky
Screenwriter: Alexander Shabataev, Sergey Grankin, Efim Kuchuk
Cinematographer: Alexander Shabataev
Editor: Efim Kuchuk
Music: David Krupnik

Also see

 http://www.caje-miami.org/upimagescaje/MJFF%20Samaritans.pdf

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Note on the New Samaritans film

I recently viewed the documentary, 'New Samaritans' and after it was over , I had a lose for words. All I could think was WOW! It was so very well done. I would have paid to fly someplace just to see it. It is a wonderful DVD to show your class or friends or just to add to your library. It is a great introduction to the Samaritans at this time. Buy it, it is well worth the money, trust me! I now have one! If you do not like it I will pay it from you, just to have extras to lend out to friends. Guys, you did a wonderful job on this, thank you!

I contacted Rimma Kushnir from Media Most in Israel. Rimma informed me that the producers were hoping to do more documentaries on the Samaritans and their festivals. This should be a wonderful series and will hopefully be viewed on TV in many countries around the world, but funding may be limited. So if you feel the need to help support any of their projects contact the Editor and I shall have them contact you straight away. The projects will be posted on the  of the Samaritan Update as soon as I receive them, so keep you eye open for them.

Past showings have been the Miami Jewish Film festival 2006, British BBC, Calgary Film Festival 2006, International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam 2006, to mention a few. The movie will appear at the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival in Idaho on September 14-16, 2007. http://www.svspiritualfilmfestival.org/program_2006.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6333475.stm

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Gerizim (ger'uzim, gērī'–), Arabic Jabal at Tur, mountain, 2,890 ft (881 m) high, in the Samaritan Hills, in the West Bank.

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AN APOCRYPHAL COOKBOOK FROM THE TIME OF MOSES!!!

Ancient Israelites Snacked on 'Pizzoh,' Historians Reveal
By Bob Michael March 26, 2007

RAS SASAFEH, Egypt. -- The discovery of an apocryphal cookbook, likely written in the time of Moses, promises to change Passover traditions worldwide.
"The Israelites had a pretty limited menu, and frankly they were bored," said Biblical scholar Ruth Meqabyan. "We have strong evidence that they began to sculpt exotic cuisine in dough in order to alleviate the crunchy boredom of matzoh."
Adornments included the addition of olives, figs, lentils, medallions of whole-roasted lamb, and grated manna.
The decorated flatbread, called 'pizzoh,' resembled Neopolitan-style thin-crust pizza. Deep-dish variants required over eighteen pounds of flour per serving.

Another cutting-edge discovery from the Weekly World News.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/98

"Ya right; I can tell that this is not the ancient Hebrew they once used!" the Editor of the Samaritan Update

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Unique Slides

Late 1910ish Magic Lantern Slide at Passover

1903 Magic Lantern Slide

All slides that you have seen in the Samaritan Update will be given to the Samaritan Museum

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The Link to the updated website of the

Samaritan Museum on Mount Gerizim.

http://www.samaritans-mu.com/