Country Diary, mid-winter 2012
You get up on a Sunday morning and discover the water is off. You ran the sinks three nights in a row to avoid freezing pipes, but you overdid it, and now the water tank is dry and you cannot pump until your landlady reinstalls the pump mechanism. But she is out of town, and when she gets back she says that nothing can be done for a few days, for more freezes are expected and the pipes must stay drained. She delivers you two jugs of the good water that runs on the land: you pour it into water glasses, take a bottle upstairs to brush your teeth. You pour water from the ten-gallon jugs you...
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We are now a week past another week of senseless killing in that skinny hinge of land on the eastern s Mediterranean Sea known as Israel and Palestine. How you know it, what you name the land, and what part you view as legitimate depends, of course, on your point of view. It’s been a hard week for me and many of my progressive-minded friends on various spots on the map of the Jewish community (religious and Zionist; religious and anti-Zionist; non-religious and anti-Zionist; Zionist-agnostic; mildly religious and not interested in Zionism; mildly Zionist and not interested in religion; and...
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