Passover Message
Dear Subscribers, My friend Robert Cohen in the UK has just sent out his Passover message. In it he writes: In our post-Holocaust, Israel-centred Jewish consciousness, the ‘Every generation…’ passage...
View ArticleTent of Nations Orchard Destruction and Pentecost Reflections
Three weeks ago I boarded an Amtrak train in Portland bound for Seattle. I was on my way to meet up with my Palestinian brother and friend, Daoud Nassar, the farmer and peacemaker and owner of Tent of...
View ArticleBDS the End of Israel? A Jewish and Presbyterian Response to Rabbi Marans
Dear Subscribers, I’m off to the Presbyterian General Assembly today. This OpEd written by Rev Jeff Deyoe and me is the first in a number of pieces I’ll be sending about the important vote the...
View ArticleGaza, 2014: Telling the Truth About Israel
Telling the truth Five years ago I attended a conference in Boston entitled “One State for Palestine/Israel.” It was March 2009. Gaza was still smoldering from Operation Cast Lead, in which 1400...
View ArticleFootnotes in Gaza — The Power of Memory
My review of Joe Sacco’s astonishing Footnotes in Gaza appeared in Commonweal Magazine in October, 2011. It was a powerful experience for me to turn to it again today. The brilliance of the book is...
View ArticleThe Politics of Hope: One Jew’s Journey from Philadelphia, to Palestine, and...
When I was a boy in the 1950s attending Hebrew school in Philadelphia, once a year we received cardboard folders equipped with slots for dimes. The folders were distributed by the Jewish National Fund,...
View ArticleThe German church and the Palestinian call: A church challenged, Part 1
Four years ago I was in Stuttgart, Germany for my first speaking tour in that country. My book had been published in German with the title Fatal Shame: Israel’s Politics and the Silence of the...
View ArticleThe Uprooted and Unwanted: A Sermon for Yom Kippur
Rabbi Brant Rosen leads a newly-formed Jewish congregation, Tzedek Chicago, a congregation that pursues a “Judaism beyond nationalism…non-Zionist, openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic...
View ArticlePeace for Israelis, Liberation for Palestinians: Bringing the New Jerusalem
I was in Santa Cruz, CA to speak at a conference organized by Friends of Sabeel North America, an ecumenical organization devoted to bringing the voice of Palestinian Christians to the United States,...
View ArticleNo Blue Sky Between Republicans and Democrats on Israel
As we prepare watch the Democrats roll out their plan for America this week, it’s instructive to consider how the issue of Israel and the Palestinians plays out on the domestic policy stage. In a July...
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