May this government of wickedness vanish from the earth
And then the righteous will see [this] and rejoice, and the upright will be jubilant, and the pious will exult with joyous song; injustice will close its mouth, and all the wickedness will vanish like...
View ArticleThe War Process vs. The Peace Process
Yom Kippur is over in Israel but remembering the Yom Kippur war is not over, at least not here. The Israeli media continues to write and talk about it. One can hear transcripts of the battles from...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the situation in Israel
I am writing this from New York City, where my wife and I are visiting with family for a month. It is very hard to be away from Israel—where we have lived for the past 44 years– at this time of great...
View ArticleIsrael’s difficult dilemma at this time
Since my last post of October 13, 2023, which was written a few days after “Black Saturday” — the name being used for the massacres by Hamas soldiers (and civilians) of innocent Israel citizens in the...
View ArticleThe American and the NY Times Peace Plans for Israel and the Palestinians
As the war between Israel and Hamas rages in the Gaza Strip, the American government and America’s newspaper of record, The New York Times, are busy thinking about “the day after” ,much more than their...
View ArticleDid Hamas kill the peace process? Or maybe it will restart after this war?
In memory of Vivian Silver Last Thursday, my wife and I attended the funeral of friend, colleague and peace activist Vivian Silver at Kibbutz Gezer in central Israel, along with over one thousand other...
View ArticleReconciliation in the Torah and in our time
The violence which we are witnessing between the Israel Defense Forces and the militias of Hamas in recent weeks is not new to the land of the Bible. The book of Genesis is full of such violent...
View ArticleNot by might and not by power: is there other way?
לֹ֤א בְחַ֙יִל֙ וְלֹ֣א בְכֹ֔חַ כִּ֣י אִם־בְּרוּחִ֔י אָמַ֖ר יְהֹוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃ Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit —said GOD of Hosts. Zecharia 4:6 This past shabbat we read this verse from the...
View ArticleHave the hostages been sacrificed in favor of the war (and other questions)?
More than five weeks have gone by since the last hostage exchange. During the week of November 24 – December 1, 2023, 105 Israelis, Jews and Muslims (Bedouin) and foreign nationals working in Israel...
View ArticleThe Dilemma of the Double Narrative in Israel and Palestine (and beyond)
Several years ago — in the days when I was still working at the Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel — I was responsible for many dialogue groups that took place between...
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