(RNS4-JAN07) Rabbi Brad Hirschield is president of CLAL-The Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York. Religion News Service photo courtesy Steve Friedman/CLAL. | Download/Purchase this photo
January 19, 2009
GUEST COMMENTARY
GUEST COMMENTARY: The prisons we make for ourselves
By Brad Hirschfield
RNS-HIRSCH-COLUMN
(UNDATED) The most persistent, if not the most immediately pressing prison in both Gaza and in Israel exists in the minds of Gazans and Israelis. In this war, as in most wars, the two sides are more alike than either would care to admit. Each side is imprisoned not only by the bombs that rain down on each of them, but by spiritual/intellectual paradigms which help define their identities as nations. By Brad Hirschfield. About 750.