If you follow this link you may have trouble reading the story, posted to the Israeli site news.nana10.co.il on March 14. So I will translate the Hebrew, with some help from my Israeli friends Sarah and Marc Bregman. Apologies for the somewhat stilted style. A GAP IN THE ARCHIVE: WHO CONCEALED … [Read more...]
In Honor of Yom Kippur – Jews, Muslims, and a Zikr in Gaza
Chalk this post up to Saturday being Yom Kippur. Or to my having spent last Saturday evening at a Sufi-style zikr (religious dance) at a local Friends' meeting house. Or to a certain nervousness over the future of the latest Gaza ceasefire. For whatever reason, I was moved to pull down from my … [Read more...]
The Kabbalah Centre, 2003 – Zohar to the Palestinians
Read this post, if you want, as a belated tribute to the World Day of Prayer, observed last Thursday on the day better known as Patriot Day or simply 9/11. Or as a memorial to the late Philip Berg, head of the LA-based "Kabbalah Centre" where the celebs--most visibly, Madonna--learn their … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – Israel August
"Now Pop was gone and Danny was here. Or rather, he’d been here until a few minutes ago but now he was gone too ... . Off to an alien land called Israel, which all of them knew existed and was where they somehow belonged, but which none of them could quite imagine." That's from chapter 6 of … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – “The Dying of Anna Shapiro”
That's chapter 6 of Outtakes of a UFO Investigator, which I'm now posting as a PDF. Anna is the mother of Danny Shapiro, the "UFO investigator" of the book's title. You'll find a few characters in this episode who were part of the original manuscript of Journal of a UFO Investigator, but whom I … [Read more...]
