Today’s One-Liner (#223)

Perhaps the vast rise in antagonism toward Israel is a manifestation of what psychologists would call “projection.” –Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, 116

Finding and Loving Islam

I teach a course called Comparative Religion and Culture at Maryville University, and this past semester I was fortunate to be with Ajla Masinovic on Tuesdays and Thursdays. An engaged and insightful learner in each…

Twenty-two Years Ago

The following is from Israeli novelist David Grossman’s Seven Days: A Diary, October 2001, in Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo MONDAYI keep reading hostile remarks about Israel in the…

Left Alone Blues

Was it something I said?Was it a promise I botched? Was it something I didn’t say?Was it an important letter for your future I said I’d write, but didn’t? Was it a facial expression giving…

Among the Survivors by Hedy Epstein

In June 1981 I attended the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel. I frequently overheard survivors asking other survivors, “in which camp or ghetto where you? When were you there?” When told, the…