Wikimedia commons. The Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua died today in Tel Aviv. Yehoshua was often associated with Amos Oz and David Grossman as giants of Hebrew and world literature. All three advocated tirelessly for peace and reconciliation with the Palestinians,… Continue Reading
March for Our Lives, public domain photograph from Wikimedia Commons “With a heart shattered over the massacre at the elementary school in Texas, I pray for the children and adults who were killed and for their families. It is… Continue Reading
In Buffalo and Texas (after In Flander’s Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae, 1915) Jonathan D. Greenberg In Texas close to Mexico, And New York burial grounds The poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place;… Continue Reading
The following op-ed was published today in the Washington Post by David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, and… Continue Reading
In today’s Easter blessing, Pope Francis evoked the manifesto of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell pleading for the abolition of war: May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and… Continue Reading
Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Basilica, Easter Sunday, 2022; photograph courtesy of Vatican News This weekend we are experiencing a rare convergence of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. On Good Friday, together with peace activists and clergy of many faith traditions,… Continue Reading
Photograph by Wondros This is a big week in Atlanta Georgia — the whole city is celebrating her most distinguished citizen, Andrew J. Young, on the occasion of his 90th birthday on March 12, when there will be a big… Continue Reading
Bloody Sunday by Ted Ellis, Wikimedia Commons March 7, 2022 March 7 is a sacred day in historical memory. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black demonstrators attempted to peacefully walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in a… Continue Reading
Protest against the Russian war in Ukraine, Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022, © 2022 REUTERS/Anton Vaganov, Human Rights Watch Dear Andrei, May 2001. I tried to reach you at your Moscow office. Your assistant transferred me to your mobile… Continue Reading
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;… Continue Reading
