I want to share a beautiful song with you, Come Back performed here by two Israelis, Cantor Shirel Richman and Shinshinit Gaya Zohar. Earlier this week, Hamas released three civilian Israeli hostages, all young women, in exchange for 90 convicted Palestinian prisoners. Today, Hamas released four Israeli soldiers, all women ages 19 and 20, in […]
Six Months
Six months ago, Hamas terrorists took hundreds of civilian hostages. 130 of those hostages are still captive. Yesterday, I listened to a mother describe her family’s experience on October 7, 2023. She lived in Nahal Oz, Israel, near the border with Gaza. After 19 hours hiding in the safe room in her house, with her […]
Dictate or Facilitate?
Few will argue with me when I suggest that the best way to lead a meeting or resolve a dispute is to help all of the participants both express their views and hear the thoughts and feelings of the others. It has been many, many years since anyone thought that anything from families to committees […]
Mideast Conflict: The Bottom Line
[Ed: I did not write this but I wish I had. I do not know the original author.] Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel’s part, the following two sentences really say it all: If the Arabs […]
Petach — The Opening
The cease-fire in Lebanon begins as this entry is published. Poems for Peace Petach — The Opening I am sitting at the opening of Abraham’s tent wondering what the tent opens onto — inside are the children of Abraham his various wives soon they will leave each other some day their descendants will be hurling […]
