Dew Drop on Jasmine is a ground-breaking memoir that interweaves a remarkable love story between a Jewish Israeli New Yorker and a Muslim Indonesian villager set against their fascinating family histories anchored in the Holocaust, the Cuban Revolution, and the Birth of Israel while addressing some of today’s most cutting edge issues.
Meital and Yudi were from two different worlds. She was a 19-year-old student at Columbia University born into a family heavily influenced by their tumultuous Jewish-Israeli identity. He grew up barefoot, surrounded by nature, with no electricity or running water, in a remote village, steeped in Islam, in Java. Without their parents’ blessing, their exotic love story moves from a romance set against the rice fields and volcanoes to a twenty-five-year-plus marriage with three children being raised half Jewish, half Muslim. As the family embarks on a multi-cultural odyssey of their own living in many world capitals due to Meital’s United Nations career, they also face an inner family struggle trying to win back the love and acceptance of Meital’s parents and society, at large.
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Meital has worked for the United Nations for 20 years in Switzerland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Armenia, Maldives, and the USA and holds three degrees from Columbia University in Literature, Journalism & International & Public Affairs. She has also produced notable photography and film works.
Yudi is a multi-media designer working in web, video, and print who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. He has worked on numerous high-profile international design projects for globally renowned private and public sector clients.
