Three guys with skullcaps and graying beards driving to Hebron with a washing machine for a Palestinian stonecutter.
What sounds like the set-up for some joke – there were three orthodox Jews and a washing machine – is one of the most moving accounts of today’s Israel/Palestine conflict you’ll read. I can’t remember who first pointed me to Gershom Gorenberg’s blog, but it was a true mitzvah.
Many thanks for picking this up. It’s simply a story of one person with a candle finding another with a match and combining together to create a small light instead of cursing the darkness – and you saw the light through the window and sent the message further.
Elliott Horowitz (one of the three graying beards)