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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 EIE CC