I couple weeks ago, I told you about American Apparel's announcement that the clothing company would send free "Legalize Gay: Overturn Prop 8 Now!" shirts to any organization in the D.C. area working for LGBT equality.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

For a while now the complaints regarding the Jewish schools in Israel are unceasing - that the children of Israel, the students in these schools, lack "the taste of Torah," a

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

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by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

When she saw that [Joseph] had left [his garment] in her hand and had fled outside, she called out to her servants and said to them, "Look, he had to bring us a Hebrew to dally

As I suggested in my last entry, in thinking about what it will take for Jews and Arabs to live together in peace in Israel, there are (at least) four different dimensions to consider: the political, the historical, the cultural, and the personal.

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

...Priest and prophet alike, they all act falsely, They offer healing offhand for the wounds of My people, Saying "Peace, peace," when there is no peace.-Jeremiah 6:13-14 (and 8