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Frustrations and Epiphanies
Frustrations and Epiphanies Our quiet town, with its Victorian houses (many of them kept in good repair by the law firms that have taken them over), its charming signs of civic care and pride, has for some years also been … Continue reading →
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Tagged AFSC, Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel, American Friends Service Committee, anti-Judaism, Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe’s “When Did the Quakers Stop Being Friends?” in The Tower December 2013, befriending enemies, Bullying, charm, Christians in Middle East, civilians in Syria, confidentiality, conflict resolution, contagious ill will, David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, defamation, dialogue, dinner invitations, ex-terrorist, foreign aid misuse, good will, harassment of Jewish students, hate crimes, incitement, inner turn, inter-group dialogue, intimidation of Jewish students and faculty, Israel, Israel Consul, Israel outnumbered, Jewish best friends, Jewish flight, Jewish survival, Jews in England, Jews in France, Joseph Puder’s “Iran’s Ugly Human Rights Record Must Be Addressed in StandWithUs Weekly Middle East Report 7/28/2017, judgments of fact, Kasim Hafeez, moral risk, neighborly relations, nonjudgmentalism, oldest hatred, one-sided views, Palestinian Authority, peace and love, Peace Center, persecution of Bahai, Persecution of Laogai, public debate, relativism, scapegoat, Second Temple, self-deception, self-righteousness, social anti-semitism, spiritual turning, street demonstrations, Students for Justice in Palestine, terrorist, threats to Israel, toxic claims, U.S. Senator, value judgments, vandalism, victims of hate crimes, vigils, violence, Werner Cohen's “The Quakers on Israel and China” in “Werner’s Opinions” 3/13/13, Western Wall, worldly experience, Yazidi
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“You CAN Go Home Again”
“You Can Go Home Again” This week we drove the two hours from Bangor, Maine to the little town on the Narraguagus Bay that I shall call – to shelter its hiddenness – the Town of Downeast. The reason I … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century influence, 19th century people, 19th century types, accurate memory, ante-bellum homes, Bangor Maine, barrel racing, camp in Maine, death and absence, death of friends, Downeast colors, Downeast Maine, event memory, filial piety, fishing boats, fog and water, friendship, generational continuity, Henry M. Rosenthal, homecoming, honorary local, inherited values, lobster fishing, local jobs, Maine forests, Maine landscape, memory and space, memory and time, misremembering, Narraguagus Bay, neighborly relations, Nobel Prize, past-to-future ties, people from "away", personal space, philosophy, philosophy students, philosophy teacher, place memory, predatory fish, psychoanalysis, remote places, rental cars, rootedness, small town, small town diner, small town life, summer people, teaching and listening, the art of listening, truth-seeking, Washington County
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