Meeting with Vineyard Church Ministers The June 22nd meeting between Pastor Ken Wilson, Associate Pastor Donell Wyche and two members of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends was successful from the standpoint of respectfully exchanging opposing opinions. It was revealed that prior to this writer’s forced expulsion from the Interfaith Round Table of Washtenaw County, […]

Beth Israel and Torture Three years ago we reported during Torture Awareness Month that Rabbi Dobrusin invoked a Catch-22 formulation for using “self defense” as a reason for unplanned torture. Since June is Torture Awareness Month, this writer decided to review and independently evaluate the Rabbi’s words in his sermon of June 7, 2008. First […]

Dual Loyalty: An Issue for Voters Should Rahm Emanuel, who served the Israeli military in a civilian capacity, have been vetted prior to his appointment as Obama administration Chief of Staff and subsequent election to Mayor of Chicago on the issue of his allegiance to a foreign government? Is it proper that candidates running for […]

JWPF Members Participate in Forum Two members of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends attended a forum, “It’s time for Palestine. It’s time for peace” presented by the Detroit West District (DWD) Peace Center and held at the Hope United Methodist Church and Society Ministry this past week. This was one of a series of […]

“Freedom for Palestine” by OneWorld

We Have a Friend in Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu (aka ‘Bibi’) delivered a speech at a joint session of Congress this Tuesday, where he received 29 standing ovations, compared to his president’s 25 for the State of the Union Address on January 24th (…and we thought he was OUR president). The reason that the peace community […]

Watch the Belly Button, Not the Ball For those now singing the praises of Barack Obama’s call for a “two-state” solution based on the Jewish state’s return to the 1967 borders, “with mutually agreed swaps”, we remind them of the basketball defense drills drummed into youngsters as they learn to play the sport. The offensive […]