This article first appeared in the 14 November, 2011 issue of Newsweek Byline: Rula Jebreal These startling words were uttered last week in Tel Aviv by 95-year-old Ruth Dayan, widow of one of Israel's founding fathers Elegantly dressed and perfectly made up, Ruth Dayan, 95, receives me with a wide smile in her Tel Aviv […]
by Rabbi Brant Rosen, Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Evanston, IL. You may also follow Brant on his blog at http://rabbibrant.com/ Here is the sermon that I delivered yesterday (January 15, 2012) at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago. If you would like a copy of "Steadfast Hope," the study guide published by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship […]
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes. That’s how W. H. Auden ends his Christmas Oratorio. And we know he is right because Christmas trees have been dismantled, the crèche has been stored, Santa is gone from the mall, and we are left […]
Dear Mr. Gingrich, Warmest regards and best wishes to you and your family during this holiday season. Allow me to remind you that recently you said in an interview with the Jewish Channel: "Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an […]
The Bethlehem Call: Here we stand – Stand with us To the reader: Read and interpret this text with a Kairos consciousness and gaze of prophetic anger. Preamble How long, O God, will they steal our livelihood? Oppress, imprison and humiliate our people? Deprive our children of their childhood? Indeed how long, God, will the […]
Published 11:55 05.12.11 Leading Palestinian intellectual: We already have a one-state solution Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi says nobody believes firing rockets is resistance that will liberate Palestine or that talking with the U.S. will deliver a just and lasting solution. By Chemi Shalev Tags: Hamas Palestinians Hamas and the Palestinian Authority should unite, unequivocally renounce […]
Blogs A Special Place in Hell by Bradley Burston Come visit Israel. Before it's gone. You're going to have to hurry. By Bradley Burston 15/11/11 I have a nephew who's never seen Israel. I have young cousins, and friends and children of friends, who have never been here, but who have long wanted to come […]
Last month I was invited as a guest to a reunion of former Assistant and Deputy Attorneys General from the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Pulitzer-Prize-winning civil rights historian Taylor Branch and civil rights activists Julian Bond and Robert Moses also attended. […]
Israel to Palestine: "You are Damned if You Do, and Damned if You Don't" NEW YORK — Nov. 3, 2011 — The Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA)* (IPMN) condemns the announcement by the Israeli government to accelerate expansion of settlement construction and financially sanction the Palestinian Authority as a response to […]
While we work toward peace, can we ignore the ongoing human tragedy in the Holy Land? Anne K. Lynn Somehow, it was not obvious to me that Christians in the Holy Land, descendents of the Apostles, are Palestinian. Those blond Jesus images from childhood take a long time to erase. Palestinian Christians did not convert […]
EPF/PIN talk, Chicago Kathleen Christison October 18, 2011 THE PROBLEM WITH ‘BALANCE’ Everyone in this room, I’m sure, has heard the injunction that those of us who speak for justice for the Palestinians must be “balanced.” Balanced, the great Middle East buzzword—usually meaning that, if we criticize Israel, we must also criticize the Palestinians equally. […]
10/20/11 Daoud Kuttab For most observers, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of raw politics. Most people familiar with the conflict take one side or another, maybe even becoming fanatical in their defense of their side. Usually, those who support the Palestinian cause do so because of a personal connection, because of a visit to Palestinian […]
