Dvar Torah by Niki Landau
Delivered Sept. 12, 1999 (2nd day of Rosh Hashanah)
When Rabbi Bielfeld asked me to do the Dvar Torah on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, I was surprised. First of all, I had no idea what a Dvar Torah was. I am not exactly what you would call a devout Jew. I would call myself a confused Jew. I am one of those people the Rabbi was speaking about on Friday night. The congregants who only come once a year to shul and don’t even know why. So how does a confused Jew come to stand before all of you today and deliver the Dvar Torah? Good question.
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Interview with Salah Ta’amari, Palestinian Legislative Council Member, Bethlehem (and former PLO fighter), November 13, 1998. We met him his Bethlehem office.
My name is Salah Ta’amari. I ran for elections 2 years ago. I was elected by the people of Bethlehem. I was born in Bethlehem and grew up here.
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Sheikh Abu Saleh, November 16, 1998
Driving through the hills towards Tel Aviv, we left the highway and turned down roads which became more and more primitive. One last dirt road led us into the village and to a small mosque, which doubles for Abu Saleh’s home that he shares with his children and grandchildren.
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by Kari Thorene
When Nachson Wachsman was captured by Palestinian terrorists, his family was thrown into a storyline all too familiar to both Israeli Jewish and Palestinian families. Within one week, a botched rescue attempt startled the terrorists, who responded by shooting and killing young Nachson.
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“Attending to Pain”, an Interview With Susan Heckler, Satya, July 1998
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“Emissary of Peace”, The Hartford Courant, April 27, 1998
The Orthodox mother of four, in Israel for a year, is riding out of Jerusalem on a public bus to Issawiyah, an Arab village where she will study the Koran with a village elder and continue a dialogue about peace that started month ago in a project called Compassionate Listening.
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“Listening With The Heart – A Journey For Peace”, by Cantor Robert Scherr, The Jewish Reporter, March 1998
We gathered in Jerusalem to begin our two week journey together, had no plans float the Dead Sea, view Knesset, or sample cafe life Tel Aviv. Sixteen Jewish people from America come Israel listen. Compassionate Listening Project, developed by Leah Green, brought us together with Israelis, Palestinians, politicians and journalists who represented a wide array of viewpoints experiences. met religious settlers on West Bank, secular Israelis Jerusalem, Immams Islamic communities, Palestinians Gaza, many engaged number dialogue groups where vastly different try understand how others feel.
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