We all of course grasp the hopeful news, meager though it is, emanating from Gaza during the current crisis. Ynetnews reports that one of the three groups responsible for kidnapping Gilad Shalit, the Army of Islam, released a statement claiming it would not kill him because it violated Islamic precepts:
Islamic Army, one of the [...]
The Palestine Media Center reports that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Mubarak of Egypt met today in Sharm el Sheik and jointly called on Hamas to accept the 2002 Arab League peace initiative:
“Egypt and Saudi Arabia call on Hamas to recognize the Beirut Arab initiative,” Egyptian presidential spokesman Soliman Awad told reporters after [...]
Hebrew slaves building the pyramids (source: Chandlerschool.org)
With demonstrations today in New York, Seattle (where I live) and elsewhere of hundreds of thousands (see NY Times coverage) demanding a fair and equitable immigration reform bill from Congress, I took to thinking about Passover and the Exodus. Why? You’ll recall that Deuteronomy 10:19 says: [...]
David Moss haggadah illustration (source: Library.yale.edu)
I’m a sucker for the Passover seder. There are many reasons. It is one of the most accessible of Jewish rituals. In fact, I find it absolutely the best such ritual to introduce non-Jews to Judaism. The seder is fun (or at least it should [...]
We owe a debt of gratitude to the NY Times’ Michael Slackman for his excellent coverage of last week’s Egyptian massacre of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. The death toll is now up to 26 (with Infoshop News reporting it as 27). UNHCR, which should be mortally embarrassed by its abandonment of the refugees [...]
Read full post... Protesting Sudanese drenched by water cannon defy Egyptian authorities command to disperse (photo: Ben Curtis/AP)
Every so often a picture really is better than a thousand words. This is true of Ben Curtis’s moving images of the Sudanese refugee massacre in Cairo two days ago in which Egyptian riot police, wielding [...]
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