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Oct 30, 2023, 4:23 AM

Marching Backwards

Blood flows and flows and flows. Bodies ripped apart on purpose. Babies, children, parents and the elderly beaten, raped, broken, decimated and still taken as hostages. It is a mind numbing cruelty and yet it speaks to the Mission of...

Oct 13, 2023, 6:33 PM

After Hamas’s atrocity, what does a peace-seeker do?

It is hard to be Jewish and to think about what happened on Saturday, October 7th in Israel and not be consumed by anger, by pain and by a desire for vengeance. My morality is buried pretty deep after...

Aug 24, 2023, 9:56 PM

Saving Democracy

Our world has sunk into a place that is based on anger and fear. Not exactly new or positive words to characterize America or Israel or Europe or China or Russia or what’s left of the Ukraine or the...

Jul 20, 2022, 11:35 PM

Listening for peace

To attempt to make a serious contribution to the unending expletive-filled dilemma that is Middle East Peace is a fool’s errand. It has been done and done and done again with buckets full of both good intentions and bad....

Oct 13, 2017, 11:39 PM

Once upon a time in March 2001 I boarded a bus from Lambertiville to Newark Airport to fly to Ben Gurion and begin my first journey to the Holy Land as a member of Leah Green’s Citizen Diplomacy Delegation....

Jun 18, 2017, 9:25 PM

The Road to Lasting Peace

I have my differences with President Trump. Frankly, I voted for Hillary and lean to the left on the American political spectrum. But I am interested in helping to seek and find and make and finally keep the peace...

May 29, 2017, 5:48 PM

The Future of American Jewish Liberalism

Where to begin? I recall many years ago being on the receiving end of a Conservative attack on my liberalism being called a Self-Hating Jew. Not the most positive terminology. I spoke up about Israel and the Occupation and...

May 20, 2017, 6:47 PM

Where to begin? In 1896 Theodore Herzl published “The Jewish State.” In the introduction Herzl stated that: “The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will deserve to have it." Let’s go back a little further. In...

May 6, 2017, 5:58 PM

Playing in the Mud

Foreign policy can be a dirty business. Each new US President faces a world full of challenges that pose threats as well as creates opportunities while calling out for American leadership. After a hundred days Donald Trump appears to...

Jan 24, 2017, 1:56 PM

Annexation is not the answer

There is a raft of hot and hotter reaction in Israel to the Obama Administrations abstention on the recent UN Resolution against settlements. Naftali Bennett, Education Minister and leader of the Jewish Home Party told multiple media sources that...

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Larry Snider was President of the Interfaith Community for Middle East Peace a non-profit based in suburban Philadelphia. Today he lives in New Jersey and is a Board Member of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey.

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