Yonatan Shefa, at The Blogs

Aug 6, 2014, 6:49 PM

Taking the peace process into our own hands

It’s one thing to say that we need peace, and to name, however passionately, our great capacity for it; it’s another thing entirely to say how we might go about bringing it. This is the burden I have been carrying...

Jul 27, 2014, 6:17 PM

Whose Land is it? a year for us to get things right in the Holy Land

My people are at war. My people, once again, are dying. But it’s more complicated this time. Throughout history, with the exception perhaps of our earliest days, we have much more clearly been the victim, been the undeserved object of...

Jul 23, 2014, 5:33 PM

Promise: can we see the light amidst all this darkness?

Everything has been in turmoil for the past week. Fear, anger, processing, healing, fear, anger, processing, healing…my wife and I have been on a rollercoaster. She’s not used to this, being at war. The rockets began falling, for us, on...

About Me

Yonatan Shefa facilitates interactive dialogue sessions between Israelis and Palestinians, between religious Jews, Christians and Muslims. He also studies at an orthodox beit midrash in Jerusalem.