I returned last Thursday from my first trip to Israel and Palestine. Some time ago I had asked my bro’ by marriage, Phil Weiss, to take me along on his next trip there and he did. We stayed about a week, mostly in and around Jerusalem. What I saw and learned there was so distressing that I need to talk and write about it, especially since within days of my return this area is erupting in violence, witness the carnage at the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in West Jerusalem.