I know many of us are very concerned about the ongoing violence in the Middle East, regardless of our political affiliations, and wish there was more that we could do to help.<\/p>\n
I have been asked to participate in a benefit concert this Monday, August 7 for both Jewish and Arab\/Muslim civilian victims of the current conflict in Israel, Lebanon, and Gaza. All donations will go to the International Red Cross.<\/p>\n
The concert will feature many of Boston’s top performing artists, including top-notch artists from Muslim\/Arab and Jewish backgrounds, working together to try to be of some help to the innocent victims on both sides of this conflict. (I will be reading some poetry in Hebrew and English, and possibly singing, though I don’t know what the final program looks like yet.) There is more information here<\/a>:<\/a> the event will take place at Emmanuel Church in the Back Bay, on Monday night August 7 at 8pm.<\/p>\n Here is the English translation of a poem I will be reading, by Yehuda Amichai, a passionate Humanist and the greatest Modern Hebrew poet:<\/p>\n Wildpeace<\/strong><\/p>\n Not the peace of a cease-fire Let it come I know many of us are very concerned about the ongoing violence in the Middle East, regardless of our political affiliations, and wish there was more that we could do to help. I have been asked to participate in a benefit concert this Monday, August 7 for both Jewish and Arab\/Muslim civilian victims of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnot even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,
\nbut rather
\nas in the heart when the excitement is over
\nand you can talk only about a great weariness.
\nI know that I know how to kill, that makes me an adult.
\nAnd my son plays with a toy gun that knows
\nhow to open and close its eyes and say Mama.
\nA peace
\nwithout the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,
\nwithout words, without
\nthe thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it be
\nlight, floating, like lazy white foam.
\nA little rest for the wounds – who speaks of healing?
\n(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation
\nto the next, as in a relay race:
\nthe baton never falls.)<\/p>\n
\nlike wildflowers,
\nsuddenly, because the field
\nmust have it: wildpeace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"