My Jewish New Year Prayer for Us All

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
September 28, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/353/my-jewish-new-year-prayer-for-us-all

Excerpt:

We Jews are about to celebrate a new year again. We have been at this for 5,769 years, which is quite a long time considering that everyone else we once knew, (the Hittes, Jebusites, Phlishtim–even the ancient pre-Islamic Egyptians), have come and gone. As they say: “We’re still here,” a little worn and a little weary. Even as we miraculously inhabit our Biblical homeland once again, our right to it remains under profound and existential siege and our people, our precious youth, generation after generation, must continue to risk death in order to defend our right to be there.

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