Israelis in Captivity
I received an email yesterday from my rav in America announcing a worldwide prayer/tehillim recitation on behalf of abducted Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Schalit. At 11 AM (Eastern time) on Wednesday, 2 July 2008, Jews everywhere are asked to recite Psalm 121. (This translates into 8 AM on the West Coast, 4 PM [...]
Embracing Our Inner Reverend Wright
This is a post I wrote on True Ancestor, and modified for (what I think is) an interesting zine, the New Vilna Review.
Comments welcome, as long as they’re made in the spirit of civil discourse (right, Avi?).
Welcome to the Hunted
Dear Fellow Jews by Choice:
My previous post seems terribly self-indulgent, especially in light of yesterday’s slaughter at Yeshiva Mercaz Harav in Israel.
I was at a dinner last night where a rabbi led us in Kaddish, after saying how “ironic” it was that the killing came on the Rosh Hodesh of Adar Sheni.
I thought to myself, [...]
Audio: No More Taking Sides (Israel/Palestine)
I think one of the hardest issues for Jews By Choice to wrap their heads around is the Middle East Crisis. At least that’s the case with me, and for what seems like a lot of the other JBC’s I meet. Let’s face it most of us were not raised with the same kind of [...]
Jerusalem doesn’t make sense
cross-posted on True Ancestor
I’ve sometimes thought that Judaism cannot make sense to you if you’ve never been to Jerusalem. And it follows that neither can Islam, or even Christianity — in its elemental, formative, rebellious beginnings — really make sense if you’ve never been to the one city in the world that has loosed more [...]
If I forget you, O Jerusalem…
This week the Israelis and Palestinians began the process of restarting peace talks which have been stalled throughout the presidency of George W. Bush. For the first time in seven years, there is a process - however you see it - through which the parties will be attempting to figure out how to live [...]
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