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Peter Himmelman

@peterhimmelman

Grammy & Emmy Award Nominated Singer-Songwriter: Film Composer: Award Winning author of Suspended By No String : Founder of Big Muse : Proud Jew Since 1959 šŸ‡®šŸ‡±

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For those who appreciate well-researched, intelligent, and historically grounded journalism, I urge you to listen to Haviv Rettig Gur. In this analysis, he dismantles—point by point—the recent Haaretz article on the so-called Gaza ā€œKilling Fieldsā€ incident, exposing its one-sided

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Addressing Our Border Crisis with Clarity and Conscience Dedicated to my Grandma Rose, who, at age 12, came to America from a small shtetl in Romania—seeking asylum from pogromists—accompanied only by her nine-year-old brother. peterhimmelman.substack.com/p/addressing-o…

Addressing Our Border Crisis with Clarity and Conscience
Dedicated to my Grandma Rose, who, at age 12, came to America from a small shtetl in Romania—seeking asylum from pogromists—accompanied only by her nine-year-old brother. 

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640 Days On: Israel/Hamas—The West’s Moral Reckoning The following is in response to an email I received last week. The person writing wasn’t hostile or inflammatory—just trying to make sense of things. Their concern was genuine. And because we live in a moment when so many

640 Days On: Israel/Hamas—The West’s Moral Reckoning The following is in response to an email I received last week. The person writing wasn’t hostile or inflammatory—just trying to make sense of things. Their concern was genuine. And because we live in a moment when so many
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Water is likened to kindness, to bestowal, to the emergence of life itself. However, like all things, it requires balance. Too much water and we drown. Too much kindness —to the wicked—and evil prevails. We may enter the water, but we can’t stay there.

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The cycle of violence so often mentioned must sometimes be broken by a simple rule: one side wins, the other side loses. Ambiguity is not the pathway to peace, but to endless war. My recent essay in substack: open.substack.com/pub/peterhimme…

The cycle of violence so often mentioned must sometimes be broken by a simple rule: one side wins, the other side loses. Ambiguity is not the pathway to peace, but to endless war. My recent essay in substack: open.substack.com/pub/peterhimme…
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"In These Days of Waiting" In these days of waiting, with hours long and leaden, we peer out our windows, to catch a glimpse of the real: a tree in its first flowering, a gravel path, a small and ordinary bird— anything to make us feel more alive than dead. Know this: Whoever

"In These Days of Waiting"

In these days of waiting,
with hours long and leaden,
we peer out our windows,
to catch a glimpse of the real:
a tree in its first flowering,
a gravel path,
a small and ordinary bird—
anything to make us feel
more alive than dead.

Know this:
Whoever
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Family Tree (10/9/23) I descend from the tribe of long memory, the clan of ineradicable recollection, the minyan of unmitigated remembrance. I am of the people whose dreams never die. I walk astride gorgeous sinners resplendent priests newborn prophets long-limbed

Family Tree (10/9/23)

I descend from
the tribe of long memory,
the clan of ineradicable recollection,
the minyan of unmitigated remembrance.

I am of the people whose dreams never die.

I walk astride

gorgeous sinners       resplendent priests
newborn prophets    long-limbed