May 13, 2010
Palestinian refugees beating the odds!
A wonderful story from CNN about three Palestinian refugee girls, their science teacher, and their head-teacher who have all contributed to the girls' success in being selected to participate in...
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April 20, 2010
Traveling, family, refugees, etc
I am still intending to write some reflections on Sunday's Chicago Hearing, which was an amazing experience. However, my sister and her husband arrived on our doorstep in DC on...
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January 01, 2009
A beautiful but tragic story from Syria
Syria has been host to 450,000 Palestinian refugees for decades. (Their families found refugee there from the fighting when Israel was founded in 1948.) More recently, Syria has been host...
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March 27, 2007
The Mother of all Sermons
(Note: this is Scott Harrop writing.) Four years ago this past week, 23 March 2003 to be exact, I heard what for me then was the “mother of all sermons.”...
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February 27, 2004
Palestinian refugee issues
This is so embarrassing. I was going through my June 2003 posts to pick some 'Golden Oldies' and I found this one, which I hadn't ever hit 'Publish' for.... So...
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June 28, 2003
The immigrantist narrative lives!
Last night I went with the spouse to a fundraising dinner for the local branch of the International Rescue Committee. The whole thing seemed like a celebration of what I...
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