May 15, 2009
Celeb visitors in Israel. As the Pope waves goodbye, leaving an audience with very mixed reactions, I can only think of what it means to this neighborhood to have a guest of significance and influence in Israel. When Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) was here last month with Charlotte Frank, they introduced their project, Operation Respect that is meant to encourage respect for others in all areas of life. Their efforts were in all directions – Yarrow sang with a choir of Arab and Jewish students from Yaffo and visited cities of mixed populations. He also led us in singing, and the idea of promoting understanding through music warmed all of our hearts. This is why there is no doubt in my mind that the coming visit of Leonard Cohen will have an enormous effect. There is something very encouraging to peace to have visitors who understand the difficulty of solving the problems here, on all sides.
I’ll be spending the day in churches around the Sea of Galilee tomorrow….Tell you about this later…
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