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Shalom Rav Now On Sabbatical! 29 Jul 2013 | 10:56 pm
You may have noted that my posts on Shalom Rav have gotten fewer and more far between of late. There are many reasons for this, but the long and short of it is that I’ve decided to take a brief hiatus...
A Post Tisha B’Av Meditation on Trayvon Martin and the “National Conversation” 18 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
photo credit: Boston Herald A few thoughts in the wake of the Tisha B’Av festival yesterday… According to Jewish tradition the Second Temple was destroyed because of the Jewish people’s sinat chinam...
Stand in Sacred Solidarity with Imprisoned Hunger Strikers 9 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
This year, the Islamic fast of Ramadan (which began Monday night and will last until August 7) will serendipitously coincide with the Jewish fast of Tisha B’Av (Monday night July 15 to Tuesday, July 1...
UNITE HERE and Hyatt Reach an Agreement! 3 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Readers of this blog know I’ve long stood in solidarity with Hyatt hotel workers during their four year struggle for justice. (If you’d like a little history, you can read about it here, here, here an...
Chicago Students Organize to Save Their Schools 27 Jun 2013 | 08:50 am
If you want to see an inspiring example of young people speaking truth to power, take a look at the clip above. At a recent meeting of the Chicago School Board a group of students publicly demanded, o...
The Prawer Plan Passes First Knesset Reading 25 Jun 2013 | 01:19 am
UPDATED 6/25/13 A follow up to my post of May 31: Ha’aretz has just reported that the Israeli government’s Prawer-Begin plan, which would evict up to 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel from their hom...
Daoud Nassar and His Message of Hope 21 Jun 2013 | 11:12 pm
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you how I feel about my friend Daoud Nassar, founder of Tent of Nations (and if you haven’t, you can read those posts here, here and here). It’s been my hon...
B’tselem Reports on Israel’s “De Facto Annexation” of Area C 13 Jun 2013 | 07:46 am
As the we wait in vain for a “breakthrough” in the current incarnation of “peace process,” I’d like to recommend some essential reading: “Acting the Landlord: Israel’s policy in Area C, the West Bank...
The Village of Iqrit and the Dream of Return 10 Jun 2013 | 09:17 am
I’ve been following with great interest an ongoing campaign by Palestinian citizens of Israel to reestablish their village of Iqrit, which was depopulated of its inhabitants in 1948 and destroyed by t...
Israeli Government Poised to Evict 40,000 Bedouin – Please Act Now! 1 Jun 2013 | 12:34 am
The Israeli government is poised to evict 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel from their homes – from land upon which they’ve lived since even before the State of Israel was established. This Knesset b...
