http://www.awn.com/ Blog Listing. xx http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-5 <!--paging_filter--><!--paging_filter-->Edward's final post on his travels and search for artistic and spiritual enlightenment in Israel.<p><a href="http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-5">read more</a></p> http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-5#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:16:14 -0800 ebakst 124944 at http://www.awn.com http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-4 <!--paging_filter--><!--paging_filter-->Israel's demand for its neighbors’ recognition of its right to existence as an independent state is essential. Which country would not seek it or fight for it, if need to? But there is another facet to this, one which came to my focus while there, Israel's right to existence as the Jewish state. This is an all together other, vastly more complex an issue. <p><a href="http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-4">read more</a></p> http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/promised-land-part-4#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:25:07 -0800 ebakst 124062 at http://www.awn.com http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/why-me <!--paging_filter--><!--paging_filter-->When invited to become a AWN expert blogger, my instantaneous reaction was - “why me?”<p><a href="http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/why-me">read more</a></p> http://www.awn.com/blogs/reflections/why-me#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:37:42 -0800 ebakst 105966 at http://www.awn.com