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...]
“Jews and Arabs … Liked and Understood One Another” – Deborah Pessin’s “The Jewish People”
"The Arab conquerors loved beauty and wisdom. And so they were ready to give the people they ruled the freedom to write, to explore, to build. Jews and Arabs now found that they liked and understood one another. The Arabs had taken many ideas from the Jewish religion, and now the Jews learned … [Read more...]
