I came to learn, by chance, about the Jewish writer Deborah Feldman, in published pages. I liked to get to know her more. Those who escape from the intolerance of “seclusion” and its blindness to the common good hold a certain excitement. In short, Deborah is a writer who rebels against everything that makes women ...
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The Bells of Return
The position, in which I stand in the service of our Church, was filled, prior to me, only by priests who were displaced by Israel from their country, in the year 1948, following the “Nakba”. In more precise terms, the work in the Church which I entered, as a minister, rested on priests from there ...
Read moreA Symposium for a Hundred Years!
Yesterday, I participated in a symposium called by the Faculty of Religious Sciences at Saint Joseph University, in Beirut. The symposium which was organized by the university “on the Theological Renewal in the Thought of Metropolitan George Khodr” on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, was attended by professors from diverse backgrounds. ...
Read moreA Jewish Pearl
A close friend of mine introduced me to the filmmaker Yuula Benivolski, who completed her separation from her homeland, Israel, from which she emigrated, 23 years ago, to the city of Toronto, in Canada. Well done to her! What did this lovely artist do? I will tell you. She came to us from afar with ...
Read moreTo Wael Al-Dahdouh
Who is the elderly woman who came to you from one of the shelter schools in Gaza, bringing you bread with her? I followed what you had written about her with great attention and love. You described her visit to you with great care. You said that she advanced toward the tent, climbed four steps, ...
Read moreFrom One Victory to Another
She was sitting by the edge of a destroyed road, declaring, publicly, her victory over the war. She did not mean the whole war. The war is still raging in her country. But she meant the battle that she herself has been through. She said that she had prevailed. She was sincere, sincere before herself ...
Read moreIsrael Knows
A few days ago, a friend of mine showed me footage of a video song performed by some children in which they glorify the power of Israel, and call for the wiping out of Gaza “in a single year”. The song is bloody in its details, especially in its likening the people of Gaza to ...
Read moreIt is the Most Enduring
Is it really the plan for Gaza to be expelled to the Negev desert and the West Bank to Jordan? I have no answer. However, if a certain kitchen has decided the fate of the people of Gaza and the West Bank for them, then the smell of the decision must have spread to the ...
Read moreAdvice from My Father
“No one is considered truly successful in life except he who has been given, in it, the opportunity to learn to be patient”. This is advice from my father. Did he learn it from his father? Did he hear it from someone else? I know he has left it with me.
Read moreThe Dublin Bride
The human being consists of stances. Last Saturday, in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, a bride left her house in her wedding dress, before the time of her wedding, in order to participate in a demonstration in support of Gaza. While she was walking on the road, she was holding the hand of a little ...
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