Sometimes I forget to update these posts because so much is happening that I can’t keep up with the news. These last weeks have been bubbling with an undercurrent of violence – stabbings, shootings, threats, hatred everywhere. Just now a journalist was shot to death in Um El Fahm, and although no more news is available, I have been so absorbed in watching for updates I didn’t remember to write here. The anger, the uncertainty, is everywhere, and alongside it an exaggerated hunger for society and community. Like the last fire of Rome.
bubbling up – sept 4, 2022 Read Post »
The photograph of Herzl against the backdrop bridge in Basel and conceiving of the idea of a Jewish State, was duplicated by our president Isaac Herzog. I copped this one from the Times of Israel in honor of the World Zionist conference there this week.