This is the testimony given by my friend and mentor Rabbi Arik Aschermann, who was attacked by a Jewish extremist, armed with a knife, this past Friday, while accompanying Palestinians during the olive harvests near Nablus. I had […]
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It was incredibly good to spend today in the West Bank
I spent today in the West Bank. I did so noting the really reasonable hesitations of my parents (I’d hesitate, too, were I my parents. There is, as you’ve all probably heard, a lot of tension and fear and […]
CS Monitor: Why Rabbis Are Helping Palestinians Defend Their Olive Harvest
By Mairav Zonszein On Sunday, four people were attacked by masked Israeli settlers wielding iron bars and stones as they picked olives in the West Bank village of Burin, resulting in light injuries – a […]
Tu B’Shvat 2012: On Renewal, Trees, Palestine, the Army, Injustice and Hope
I haven’t felt an urge– a need, even– to write like the one I am feeling now for a long time. My fingers are a bit stiff from the February Jerusalem air and from the […]
The Leftern Wall 