Quote and Hero for Today: Rabbi Arik Ascherman

In the type of wonderful portrayal of people and places that Nick Kristoff knocks out "on the regular", he quotes Rabbi Ascherman who heads up the Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights:

In the long run, we’re going to live here together, he says, “or we’re going to die here together.

Ascherman himself has served as a human shield between West-bank settlers or Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.

This is the first combo Hero and Quote for Today post, Rabbi Ascherman is a real mensch. A deep bow to Kristoff as well for making his readers better people, not just better educated, by reporting to us so many great stories of human strength and spiritual beauty.

Comment of the Day: assessment of the nationalism of our species

It's sad that today there are still people running their lives (and ruining others) according to primitive fairy tales.

As a species we are dumber than dirt.

by "Dom" re the concept of a "Greater Israel" that incorporates the "God-given" Samaria and Judea.