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...
View ArticleNot 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleCamping 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...
View ArticleFree(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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleSustaining 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWomen 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...
View ArticleRosh 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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