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{weblog_name} - West Bank Good News
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It is agonizingly rare to find a positive headline emanating from the West Bank, which recently saw a mosque burned and graffiti spray-painted on the walls in Hebrew, including the words “revenge” and “price tag,” referring to in-kind reprisal of Jews against Palestinians for attacks. It was the third Palestinian mosque to be torched, allegedly by settlers, in the past year. But the continuation of the story did not get much additional focus. A few days later, some prominent West Bank rabbis visited that same mosque, bringing Korans to replace the ones burned by the vandals. Leading this effort was Rabbi Menachem Froman, chief rabbi of the settlement of Tekoa. He is a veteran in interfaith efforts and has even conducted face-to-face dialogue in past years with religious leaders of the Hamas Islamic fundamentalist group. (He has been heavily… read more