…Arab head-wrap, a mushadda. A Palestinian flag could also go a long way in a jam. So could my favourite Arab phrase, ‘assalaam alaykum ahree,’ which means ‘Peace be upon…
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…a third way. After studies in Europe, he returned home, and with volunteers from Germany and Holland, he built community centres, schools and libraries in Galilee. Peace centres were inaugurated…
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…his many “bonus years” after those early wartime traumas. Some days it’s hard to know what to make of it all: family, war, peace, finding what only you can give…
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…(and this in the age of the manual typewriter) of unpublished work. Making peace with what’s unfinished is also part of this. The Old Man and the Sea isn’t a…
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…expressing her sorrow for hurting them, and her desire for true peace. So, my mother’s world ended not with a bang, but with a whimper, alone, on the floor of…
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…If he’s not poking his head through extra tinsel, little Jesus is left in his manger, sleeping in heavenly peace, implications of his birth all-too-sanitized by our culture’s obsessive compulsion…
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…said, in a manner of speaking. Then “lamb.” And so forth. They all had good relationships. They were at peace, lying around together. It was Eden. My cat was telling…
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…an unavoidable difficulty in this. And beauty. And peace. And freedom. ✦ Attribution: On another matter, a mea culpa. In a recent column from Jerusalem, in a line on teaching…
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…as they looked up and pointed in wonder. Then it flew off to wherever. It was as good a reminder as any of the peace that Christmas gives, even on…
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…current East-West conflict. And without such strong medicine, I’d like someone to tell me how anyone will ever have peace, either on the world stage or in their private lives….
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