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is pleased to announce the SPRING 2010 publication of
Shifting Sands:
Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation
                                             
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In addition to the moving contributions of authors including Anna Baltzer (Witness in Palestine), Jen Marlowe (Darfur Diaries), Hedy Epstein (Holocaust survivor and Gaza Freedom March activist), Starhawk (who's been blogging about the Gaza Freedom March, Alice Rothchild (read her blog about her latest trip to Israel/Palestine), and others, Shifting Sands includes an introduction by American peace activist Cindy Sheehan and a forward from award-winning Israeli journalist Amira Hass.

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Welcome to the online home of writer/editor Osie Gabriel Adelfang. Osie is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of an unprecendented nonfiction anthology. The book is a collection of essays by more than a dozen Jewish women writer/activists who tell heartbreaking stories of peaceful resistance and solidarity against Israel's occupation of Palestine. The book, titled Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, is slated to be published by emerging green publisher  Whole World Press in Spring 2010.
I am now working on a calendar of events. If you are interested in information about Shifting Sands or would like to interview me or some of the other authors, please email me! A press kit is in the works and will soon be up on the site. With the Gaza Freedom March and Viva Palestina convoys behind us and Israeli bombing continuing, the book is a must-read about Israel, Palestine, Judaism, Occupation, human rights and justice.  

Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge.
It is the servant of discovery.
A belief which may not be questioned binds us  to error,
for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.
Doubt is the touchstone of truth.
It is an acid which eats away the false.
Let none fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is a testing of belief. 
For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.

Those who would silence doubt are filled with fear.
The house of their spirit is built on shifting sands.
But they that fear  not doubt, and know its use, are founded on a rock.
They shall walk in the light of growing knowledge.
The work of their hands shall endure.
Therefore, let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help;
it is to the wise as a staff to the blind.
Doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
--from Gates of Prayer (Siddur)

 


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