December 7, 2009 – Interfaith

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The more we understand the other, the better our chances for compromise and survival.  One of the more active organizations I know in this field is http://www.interfaith-encounter.org the Interfaith Encounter Association.  To support them, send to:
 
 
1.      “INTERFAITH  ENCOUNTER  ASSOCIATION”
12/34 Ha’arazim Street
P.O.Box 3814
Jerusalem 91037

Israel
2.      Tax-deductible contributions in the U.S.A.: 
Friends of the Interfaith Encounter Association

c/o Dominic Bellino
3 N 923 Bonnie Drive

St. Charles, IL 60175

I’m a little crazy about the necessity for interfaith encounters, even though i’m not really actively doing anything about it right now.

 

December 6, 2009 – Lost Weekend

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so many little celebrations i can’t keep them straight and can’t begin to recall them.  We go from birthday party to wedding celebration to birth party and there is no time to celebrate and consider and criticize our own lives.  That makes me sound like an old grouch but the unexamined life, as they say, is not worth…. and i like to spend at least half my time considering.  Some trivial examples:

As we admire the new palm trees lining Ibn Gvirol, making it look finally like a boulevard, someone says, “Where do those trees come from?”  There is a silence.  “Probably grown near the Dead Sea.”  This is not the usual answer when we ask about olive trees.  But we don’t go any deeper.

 
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