MEMBER BLOG TAG: palestine
| Sunday, May 3, 2009 11:20AM | | | | Meir Shalev - How Weird Is That??? | Tags: Meir Shalev, Le Ręveur de Palestine,
| | | Life is a funny four letter word.
At Wednesday's party for the writers at World Voices I ran into Meir Shalev. I'd seen him on a panel earlier where he had made a wonderful impression, but apart from that I knew nothing about him. But after talking to the man for less than a minute, I found out that he had met my Jewish Danish grandfather!!!
My totally unknown grandfather. From a small town in Denmark. Far from New York and Israel. Ladies and gentlemen, how weird is that?
All this came to light just because I told Shalev that my grandfather was born in Safed and was abducted by a Danish missionary, ending up in my cold Scandinavian country as a... | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:15AM | | | | Not the "Promised" Land | Tags: Shlomo Sand, Palestine, Israel, Abraham, covenant
| | | | Although popularly know as the “promised” land, Palestine is more accurately described as the “covenant” land (Gen. 12:1-4, 13; 15:18; 17:1-14, Ex. 23:31-33). A promise is giving one’s word that one will do, give or accept something. A covenant is an agreement between at least two persons, each promising to do, give or accept something. Yahweh will be their God if they will be his people. The promise is always conditional. God promised a land to Abraham and his descendants on certain conditions including, in the covenant with Moses, to make no treaties with neighbors and no intermarriage. If Abraham’s children did those things the covenant was broken (Lev. 18: 24-28).
Eventually Israel was divided into the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and Southern Kingdom (Judah). Israel was... | | | | | | | Saturday, April 11, 2009 12:47PM | | | | Whose Promised Land? | Tags: Palestine, Israel, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, covenant
| | | | The deed to Palestine is more complicated than most Jews, Arabs and Christians wish to admit. God promised the Holy Land to the seed of Abraham. (Gen. 12:7, 13:14-15). That story and that promise is in the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible and the Koran. Abraham was the father of Ishmael and Isaac, and others. (Gen. 25:1-6.)
Ishmael was Abraham’s first born son. Some claim that Ishmael doesn’t count because his mother was a sex slave but the birthright belonged to the father and not the mother. The firstborn son was the first sign of the father’s strength (Deut. 21:15-17). That son received a double portion of all the father had.
The Hebrews had a problem because according to the Jewish Bible the first born son... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:57AM | | | | What is "holy" land? | Tags: Israel, Palestine, Jewish Bible, New Testament, Israel, Islam, Christianity
| | | | What is “holy” land? Can a place be uniquely holy? Holy means separate; therefore, only God is holy. Things are not naturally holy. However, God imparts holiness to whatever is set apart for God’s use and to those who use them. According to the Jewish Bible God’s name, garments, vessels, places where the vessels are kept, the house of God, temple mount, city of Jerusalem, tithe, priests and Nazirites, Sabbath, Ark of the Covenant are holy.
The New Testament declares as holy the Christian calling, faith, sacrifice, John the Baptist, Christians, Christian children. And the scriptures. However, the scriptures would apply only to the Jewish Bible because the Christian Bible had not yet been written. The apostle Paul points out that holiness is spiritual and... | | | | | | | Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:13PM | | | | Saudi King on Peace | Tags: King Abdullah, Palestine, Zionism, PTSD, Holocaust
| | | | Tikkun to heal, repair and transform the world
My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them
By Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor,TIKKUN
I had expected the World Conference on Dialogue convened by the
King of Saudi Arabia July 16-18 in Madrid to be little more than a photo op for the King, a cheap way to buy good public relations for a regime that has refused to increase production of oil as a way to reduce the current surge in the price, provided haven and support for the Wahabaist stream of Islam that has fostered extremists likeSaudi-born and raised Osama bin Ladin and many other, and has done far too little with its wealth to alleviate the poverty and suffering of many in the Middle East. For that... | | | | | |
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