As we were leaving our friends at the nearby cafe we passed other groups of people talking.  It was almost the same conversation we were having – about the violence today in Jerusalem.  But we had also been putting it in context.  Because of our different professions, we were also discussing a wider view of the society, the level of violence in the schools, in the families, in the courts, in the world of medicine, the sense of unequality in the society.  “And why aren’t you, with such a religious background, keeping kosher?”  “Because it’s being imposed on me.”  And today, Easter Sunday, Ramadan, Passover – even our religions are clashing.

In the world too.