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A religious Jew's search for God with Christians
and Muslims in the Holy Land.
looking for "crazies — Jews who wanted
to blow up the Temple Mount, Christians
waiting for the end of the world" — and
ow do you open the heart?"
he wanted to tell a different story
is one of the first questions
"I wanted to look for visionaries,"
he says.
that Yossi Klein Halevi asks
a Sufi sheik named Ibrahim,
But early on in the interview, he
when they meet in the West Bank village
points out that this is a book that he
of Karawa.
couldn't have written now The interfaith
It's a question that the journalist pon-
dialogue he took part in and reported on
ders in all sorts of settings, as he criss-
is mostly aborted.
crosses religious borders in Israel,
The current situation in Israel wouldn't
recounting his journey in At the Entrance
allow him the access he had; many of the
to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for
people who welcomed him to their
God with Christians and Muslims in the
homes and communities would not be
Holy Land (Morrow; $25).
able to do so now "I'd be terrified for
Halevi, a correspondent for the New
their sake and for mine," he says.
Republic and the
He sees the opening of
Jerusalem Report, engages
possibility that he wrote
in a two-year exploration,
about as gone, for now,
"an attempt at religious
and he feels a certain
empathy" A self-
unease in discussing the
described religious Jew
themes of the book with
and religious pluralist,
the current political situa-
he's not interested here in
tion. But he remains hope-
talking about theology
ful in the long term.
and differences between
Perhaps, at a time
A jEW'S SEARCH FOR COD
the faiths but in finding
when all of us are feel-
WITH CHRISTIANS AND NIUSLIMS
common ground in how
ing despair, this book is
IN THE HOLY LAND
they experience God's
in some way an offering
presence.
for the future," he
He meets monks, nuns,
remarks.
priests and sheiks, along
For Halevi, one of the
with their followers; he
highlights of his journey
talks, prays, shares silence
was meeting Sheik
and dances with them, and his own
Ibrahim, a man exuberant with love,
heart opens ever more widely
who punctuates his sentences with
This is not the usual journalist's book
laughter. "This was the first time I went
on Israel. Halevi speaks about God and
into the West Bank not as a reporter or a
spiritual longing without the detachment
soldier but as a seeker," he says.
of a reporter. He writes with the sensibil-
"I was embraced, overwhelmed by the
ity and passion of a psalmist, creating
open-hearted sheik, who was relieved that
beautiful images in luminous prose. A
a Jew had come knocking on his door."
highly original work filled with sparks of
Sheik Ibrahim recounts to Halevi a
holiness, the book is a pleasure to read.
vision he had, when visiting Nebi Musa,
This writer catches up with Halevi in
the desert shrine where Muslims believe
Manhattan, soon after arriving from his
that Moses is buried.
home in Jerusalem for an American
There, he heard Moses tell him that
book tour. Explaining how he came to
he would be a peacemaker, that he
write his latest work, he says, "I didn't
would welcome Jews into his home.
know this story. I wanted to do a book
Some time after their first meeting,
about Israel that would teach me some-
Halevi travels with the sheik to the
thing."
shrine. "We stood at the place where
As the millennium was approaching,
he had that vision. I held him as he
his media colleagues in Jerusalem were
wept. At that moment, anything
seemed possible."
SANDEE BRAWARSKY
Special to the Jewish News
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