Jerusalem Journal: Finding Hope - Softcover

Traer, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188857089X ISBN 13: 9781888570892

Publisher: The Davies Group Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

These personal reflections on religious life and conflict in Israel and the occupied West Bank were written during February through May, 2005, while the author was in Jerusalem to support Jewish Israelis, Muslim Palestinians, and Christians working for a just peace. The author traveled on the West Bank with members of Rabbis for Human Rights to help protect Palestinian farmers and children from attacks by Jewish settlers. He went behind the Separation Wall to talk with Palestinian advocates for human rights. The author visited the Western Wall below the Temple Mount where Jews pray, the Haram al-Sharif where Muslims pray, and he celebrated Easter in Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant services in the Old City of Jerusalem. He also visited archeological sites in Galilee, Caesarea, Acre, and the Jordan Valley. The author relates his interviews with rabbis and the Jewish arguments supporting justice for Palestinians. This book offers the author’s reflections on the long history of Jews, Christians and Muslims living in their land. Despite the violence and cynicism that now mark the conflict in the Middle East, the author finds hope in the courage and faith of Jews, Christians and Muslims he met in Jerusalem and in the occupied West Bank.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Davies Group Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 188857089X
• ISBN 13: 9781888570892
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 254