In late 1981, I transferred from my first professional assignment in Los Angeles to Kingwood, a planned community located northeast of downtown Houston. Friendswood Development Company (FDC), a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation, developed Exxon’s extensive fee acreage into an award-winning residential …
Abraham’s Children
Why can’t Israeli Jews and Arabs live peacefully? How do these two religions and cultures interact within the State of Israel? This is a different problem from that experienced by the West Bank Palestinians who are within the occupied West Bank, where the majority population is Muslim. In Israel, …
Shorashim
Why can’t Israeli Jews and Palestinians peacefully co-exist? This question was posed in my last blog during my visit a few weeks ago to the Hebron Tomb of the Patriarchs (Cave of Machpelah). This question incorporates more than 3,000 years of complex Middle East history. Migrations, wars, and …
Machpelah
I returned to Austin late evening four days ago from a two-week tour of Israel and Jordan. My wife and I joined a Seminary-sponsored tour of the Holy Land. Named “The Friendship Tour,” it was a joint Jewish-Christian tour. The tour leaders were Rabbi Neal Blumofe, who teaches Old Testament and …