Remember to Pray for Gaza

  Because no bombs are falling, most of us assume that there is some kind of peace in Gaza; that is, if we think of Gaza at all.  Not so. On July 21 the Jewish Voice for Peace reported how a silent war continues on this densely populated and isolated little strip of land that […]

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Deafness, Talk and Terror from the Middle East

  In the last ten or more years of her life my mother was quite deaf. The results of her deafness were fascinating once I learned to step back and think about them. First, she tended to fill her silence by talking a lot, a thing she had never done before. Second, she interrupted other […]

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