By Karin Kloosterman
With so much bad blood between the two peoples, it is good to see some peace-making in action. A latest retreat connecting Muslims and Jews through the Interfaith Encounter Association took place earlier in November, and was sponsored by Canada’s Networking for Peace program.
It was a stimulating and exciting experience event organizers report, [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

At every terror attack, every natural disaster, or murder around the world where an Israeli is the victim, you won’t see CSIs from Israel parachuting in -– the first to arrive on the scene are the ZAKA crew. Religious, with beards and kippas usually, these volunteers have the dirty, and holy, job of [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

With Israel being the Holy Land, you would expect the Pope and all his pontiffs to be regular visitors to this neck of the woods. (This neck of the woods being Israel where I now live.)
While there are not many churches in Tel Aviv, there are very established Christian and Catholic places of [...]

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I came across a blog the other day that I want to share with you.

Olives & Thorns is a middle-east focused blog. It is written by Robert W. Gee who is the Middle East Correspondent for Cox Newspapers.

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