Episodes/2 (How to Sleep at Night)

During Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Diaspora moralist Elie Wiesel was of the opinion That given the dramatic sweep of thousands of years of Jewish history What was then taking place— The bombing of…

Episodes/1 (The Prophetic)

To us a single act of injustice (Cheating in business, exploitation of the poor) Is slight To the prophets A disaster To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people To the prophets…

Children of Vietnam

On Betty Lifton and Tom Fox, Children of Vietnam, 1972 The writer of children’s stories and a former IVS volunteer and journalist had to do something.  So they compiled this Mev Puleo-ish book of stories and…

The Right to Remember

“The right to remember is not among the human rights consecrated by the United Nations, but now more than ever we must insist on it and act on it. Not to repeat the past but…

Presence

Shunryu Suzuki  Roshi was the first person I ever met for whom I felt immediate and total trust. It was something which I had never expected to experience. Every sense, every brain cell and nerve…