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Part 1 of “A Story of Forgiveness” The dense dust and sand-mixed scrim hanging from ethereal curtain rods over Jerusalem and all of Israel has lifted, whispering on the western winds [...]

How do I love my neighbor? I have been turning the Rubik’s Cube of my mind in all directions for a solution, and I am still wrestling to progress after almost six weeks back in Israel. When you [...]

It has been over a year since Jerusalem Old City craftsmen, my “Betzalel Team,” completed their construction of my room addition to the tiny 400-square-foot apartment I had called [...]

It was early December of 1965 and the U.S. had entered the Vietnam War. Psychedelic hippie counterculture sought answers to big questions to which the Beatles soon responded with their song, All [...]

The metallic whir of a dusty stand fan creates a whoosh of breezes, mitigating the Jerusalem heat under my canopied pergola. Stately royal lavender and a pink explosion of geraniums live [...]

Intoxicating perfume from lemon blossoms envelops me as I step across the threshold into my garden, a haven of healing and hope during these days of Coronavirus quarantine. Lemons and their [...]

Why are we waiting to savor something ephemeral with excuses like, “I don’t have time,” or “It just isn’t convenient,” or “I am leaving soon, so what’s the point?” This morning, having returned [...]

Prayer shawls, fringes fluttering in the breeze, envelop Jewish Orthodox men streaming through Damascus Gate, as they flow toward the Western Wall on this Sabbath morning, lips muttering in [...]

Music fills the streets of Jerusalem as the annual crescendo of colliding sacred calendars begins to rise and resound down the Via Dolorosa and at Jewish Passover Seder tables throughout the [...]

It was a rainy Monday morning and my internet was down. Although the melancholy 1970’s song by The Carpenters goes, “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down…,” I was thankful for the [...]