Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

Action

Torah as music

Ben Heine

Action

ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

Action

Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

Action

David Grossman

Ben Heine

Action

Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

Action

Dove

Ben Heine

Action

Two birds

Hoda Jamal

Action

Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

Action

Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

Action

Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

Action

Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

Action

Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Action

Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

Action

Joint Appeal for Peace

(Avi Katz)

Joint Appeal for Peace

Ketubah, Ancona, Italy (1772)

(Jewish Theological Seminary library)

Ancona ketubah
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Lebanon’s Tragedy Writ Small: A Village Eradicated, a Family Displaced

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  1. Gilly says:
    August 5, 2006 at 8:12 AM

    Warm greetings Zaineb, Mohammed and daughters,
    Your story has touched me very deeply.
    I weep at the harm caused to you and all the beautiful people of Lebanon.
    You are in my prayers… I ask God to hold His Light above you; to richly bless you and protect you from all harms way. May Peace soon return to your lives and The Lebanon.
    I leave you with my deepest Love and… with this beautiful poem which was written by a young child, who has since died. He left this world a better legacy than the one he found. May we do the same!

    Your friend Gilly

    FOR OUR WORLD

    We need to stop.
    Just stop.
    Stop for a moment…
    Before anybody
    Says or does anything
    That may hurt anyone else.
    We need to be silent.
    Just silent.
    Silent for a moment…
    Before we forever lose
    The blessing of songs
    That grow in our hearts.
    We need to notice.
    Just notice.
    Notice for a moment…
    Before the future slips away
    Into ashes and dust of humility.
    Stop, be silent, and notice…
    In so many ways, we are the same.
    Our differences are unique treasures.
    We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts
    To nurture, to offer, to accept.
    We need to be.
    Just be.
    Be for a moment…
    Kind and gentle, innocent and trusting,
    Like children and lambs,
    Never judging or vengeful
    Like the judging and vengeful.
    And now, let us pray,
    Differently, yet together,
    Before there is no earth, no life,
    No chance for peace.

    September 12, 2001
    © Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek
    Used with permission from Hope Through Heartsongs, Hyperion, 2002

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