I can't believe this. I struggle to understand what would motivate such hatred and bigotry, to attack a car full of children returning home from school. There is so much important, healing work to be done in the world, especially in the West Bank, how do people even arrive at the point of throwing eggs and stones at children? Is it the idolatry of land, of property, which precipitates such degeneration? I don't know, but I am glad that in the end the children had the protection they needed to arrive home safely.

The Save Darfur Rally is tomorrow, and oh I wish I could be there. I wish I could go and cry there and pray there. While some might argue that our outcry could have little effect, I counter that our silence itself is a violence that must be ended with our outcry. We, Yisrael, did not begin to leave Egypt until we cried out (Shmot 2:23-2:24). Thus, the first step toward our liberation was--is--in our voices. May our voices be strong tomorrow, wherever we are, and may the words of our mouths inspire the work of our hands and feet.