Marc H. Ellis

At once fascinating and revelatory for what it shows about the blinkered views which some of the most obviously well-intentioned people can have in their quest to understand and explain Israel's actual political history and policies while, at all costs to reason, fairness and honesty, refusing to face the very ugly underlying truths which that history and those policies make otherwise inescapable.

I found the rationales offered by the author facile, simplistic and, as a liberal reading show more another who must regard himself as a sincere liberal, close to if not, indeed, an insult to my intelligence.

Just the same, the short-comings of the book tell us much about why there is and so long has been so cryingly little real progress in the Israel-Palestine conflicts. show less

The diary of a person living at the Catholic worker house. The author saw the poverty and anguish of those who are destitute in the midst of the affluence of one of the world's largest cities.

A young man's journal of the year he spent at a Catholic Worker house in New York. Moving and profound.

The author brings together different currents of Jewish thought to examine contemporary Judaism in light of liberation theology.