Sublime

Not wishing Israel to establish itself as the central address for world Jewry, the American Jewish Committee believed that the Eichmann trial should not be held in Israel; some of its members even met with Golda Meir to emphasize their displeasure at the prospect. Infuriating the Israeli officials, AJC leaders charged that trying Eichmann in Jerusa

even more than their own survival. The failed Latrun operation was followed by another devastating loss days later, when the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City fell to the Arab Legion, the best-trained and equipped of the Arab forces, still fighting under British commanders. Yitzhak Rabin, future prime minister of the state, looked upon the Old

displacement and detachment were not solely a Jewish malady.

chief among the guiding ideals of the Truce was a commitment to protect the defenceless against the depredations of violent men, and

Judaism, I discovered, demands an appreciation of complexity and scrupulous consideration of opposing views.

to reclaiming the prophetic tradition and working with multi-faith partners to build a society of equity and equality, compassion and justice.

Make sure the stories you tell reflect the world you wish to see.

The Palestinians were making political moves and, as had been the case with the Zionists, were also finding a literary voice. They did so most notably in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian born in the western Galilee whose family fled their village of al-Birwa during the War of Independence. Drawing upon both centuries of Arab verse and t