Palestine – Page 2

“Come and see, then go and tell”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 5, 2014November 4, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

The Tent of Nations is an organic farm on a long narrow strip of Palestinian land that has held its deed since 1917, through four occupations: Turkish, British, Jordanian, and Israeli. It is placed in... Read More

“Just Tell Our Story” — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on October 29, 2014October 29, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

We met Shirim at her family’s olive grove plot. It falls just outside the Betar Illit settlement. More accurately, it falls on the entire hill but the settlement imposed itself right on top of the f... Read More

The Waste Land

Posted on July 31, 2014July 31, 2014 by Ilona Gerbakher

What is that noise? The wind under the door. What is that noise now? What is the wind doing? nothing again nothing. I’ve been having the oddest response to the latest Israel/Palestine crisis: al... Read More

We Have No Water

Posted on July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

Israelis control Palestinian water resources, directing two-thirds of it to Israeli settlers who use three times the amount of water Palestinian homes do. Palestinians must buy their own water back fr... Read More

The Roman Jewish Vigil for Israel

Posted on July 21, 2014July 21, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

In the Piazza della Rotunda of the Pantheon, at the heart of Rome, there was a rally in support of Israel held by the historic Roman Jewish community. Traces of trauma from World War II are here, sca... Read More

Mourning Our Way to the World to Come

Posted on July 4, 2014July 4, 2014 by Alex Weissman

One of the things I love most about Judaism is how we mourn. We do keriya, a physical tearing of our clothes to materially represent our pain. We recite kaddish yatom, a prayer that requires a group o... Read More

In Another Gilgul: Forgiveness, the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, and Bedtime

Posted on March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 by Alex Weissman

Every night before we go to sleep, Jewish liturgy offers us the opportunity to forgive. The Bedtime Shema begins: “Master of the universe, I hereby forgive anyone who angered or antagonized me or wh... Read More

Fear and Loathing in Qalandiya

Posted on February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by Adam Zagoria-Moffet

Before today, I never imagined I would be quite so relieved to not understand Arabic. That’s because today, I visited a small portion of the West Bank with my wife and infant son courtesy of the... Read More

Welcoming a New Pope

Posted on February 21, 2013February 21, 2013 by Wilfredo Amr Ruiz

In an unprecedented event in the past 600 years, Pope Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the supreme prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. This historical situation... Read More

Strangers in an All Too Familiar Land

Posted on February 8, 2013February 7, 2013 by Nicolas Cable

I spent the last two weeks in a land named holy by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, seeking peace, understanding, wholeness. My travels took me through countless narratives, religious expressions, po... Read More