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Murder in Itamar

I am so angry.  Murder is not an acceptable political tactic. Rabbi Arik Ascherman posted on Facebook around midnight Israel time: I may need volunteers to go with me in the middle of the night tonight...

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Not again

I think the author of this essay is more right-wing than I, but I really appreciated what he wrote: I have a feeling that years from now Palestinians will look back and wonder: How did we allow...

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Judge Goldstone Retracts

Two years ago, (South African Jewish) Judge Richard Goldstone wrote a report for the UN about the war in Gaza. It faulted both Israel and Hamas. Right-wing Jews have been screaming about it — and...

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Camping in the Streets

Read this. It’s a cogent analysis of the massive street protests that began in July in Israel.  Theorizes both optimistic and pessimistic outcomes. When I was there last October, Rabbi Arik Ascherman...

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Free(d) Gilad Shalit

I have been seeing posters about Gilad Shalit for years.  Nearly 6 of them.  There are websites that enumerate the number of days he’d been held in captivity.  There are banners for your web page and...

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More about Gilad Shalit’s release

NPR had a report today about back-channel communication that took place over the past 6 years between a spokesman for the Prime Minister in Gaza and Israeli Gershon Baskin. Read it here. Gershon Baskin...

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Sustaining the World Entire

Yesterday we had a 45-minute addition to our already busy schedule: a walk and talk through Kayam Farm. It’s small — a few acres of vegetables and fruit and an acre of pasture for goats and chickens....

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The Diameter of the Bomb

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two...

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Women of the Wall — A Victory

It’s a historic day in Israel for everyone who believes that pluralism and inclusion are good for the soul — and the body politic.  After nearly 25 years, Women of the Wall have been vindicated in...

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Rosh Chodesh Sivan at the Kotel: Receiving the Torah

For the first time in nearly 25 years of attempting to pray aloud, according to their own custom (in tallit and tefillin), and to read Torah in public — Nashot HaKotel/Women of the Wall held a historic...

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