Weekly Links June 22nd-29th 2012

An amazing, real story about dialogue and narrative sharing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/a-new-heroism-in-israel-and-palestine-2

A look at how the sweep of movements like Occupy and the Arab Spring are affecting individual halakhic choices

http://thinkingtorah.blogspot.ca/2012/06/halakhic-spring-jews-are-doin-it-for.html

A fascinatingly modern thought found at the opening of a canonical Buddhist text

http://jamesshelley.net/2012/06/all-that-we-are/

An honest struggling with the religious and feminist worlds and the ways they interact

http://www.stateofformation.org/2012/06/an-unexpected-turn/

A wonderful reflection on the problems of intra-faith dialogue, and being a religious atheist. Truly, a man after my own heart (read both).

http://www.stateofformation.org/2012/06/wanted-more-bully-pulpit-less-bullying/
http://nonprophetstatus.com/2011/07/28/i-aint-marching-anymore/

An engaging, though long, look at the richness each different language spoken by humans has to offer

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text

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