Reconciliation

Reconciliation Within the Family and Beyond the Family

The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families.Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, Sarah ...

Trusting in the Big Hands of a Gentle Giant

When the facilitator announced that we would be silently working in clay with our partners, I felt a bit of ...

Show Me Your Face

I am what you might call an alternative peace activist. The return to the biblical heartland of Israel — Judea and ...

The Closer You Are, The Less You See

It took a Protestant pastor from Reston, Virginia to introduce me to my Palestinian neighbors. It happened two years ago, and it changed my life.

I’m Too Broken to Write This Blog

Rarely have I been so deeply affected, so deeply wounded inside, so utterly shattered.

Brotherhood of Erstwhile Enemies

We were two Christian Palestinians, four Muslim Palestinians and six Jewish Israelis. The Christians were from Bethlehem, both veterans of ...

A Tale of Two Little Girls and of Two Little Nations – Holding Hands

Two girls holding hands, tightly, or so it seems. They’re about ten years old. The two of them, one tall ...

Painful Hope

I had no idea that the day I met Ali Abu Awwad would signal a radical turning point in my ...

Meeting My Palestinian Neighbors For the First Time

Nine months ago I opened the front door of my apartment in Alon Shvut and took a 20-minute walk that ...