The myriad problems with and underlying logic for reconciliation Plus Barak unafraid, Turkey down, and more in the news One more reason why a joint Fatah-Hamas government is … complicated JTA debuts the Jewish News Archive Foreign ministry suggests Israel work jiu-jitsu on reconciliation  | |  This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day. Instead of flowers or treats, a writer offers up some decidedly unconventional prayer. For Sons: Hear our voice, Hashem our God, pity and be compassionate to us, and deliver us, Oh Father in Heaven, from our mothers here on Earth. Bring us back to you, Oh Lord, if only to get us the hell away from them, for we are in agony and depressed and neurotic and sexually dysfunctional. We have turned away from You, we have become guilty, we have robbed, we have slandered, but Jesus, let the punishment fit the crime, and no crime could fit the punishment of mothers such as ours, Oh God. Hear our cries, Oh Lord, He who did deliver us with a mighty hand from the from the land of Egypt but clearly saved the 11th plague for us, He who took us from the land of bondage to the land flowing with guilt and shunning, a land of superegos and shame and Hitler and pogroms and arthritis and Alzheimer's, and for which the only solace is alcohol and violent pornography. For you are our Lord, the All-Knowing, the All-Understanding, but Who, let's face it, Oh Lord, never had a mother Himself, so doesn't really know, does He? May He who split the Red Sea and delivered his children from suffering do so once again, speedily in our days, or just let the sea collapse on us and get the damn thing over with. More  | The Arab Spring is liberating a generation from repressive political institutions, but the intellectual legacies of the regimes they are helping topple may be tougher to shake More |  | This year Mother’s Day falls on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day. For one motherless daughter, the coincidence brings up comparisons she can’t ignore. More BY TAMAR FOX |  | In a Kosher restaurant in Brooklyn, news of Osama Bin Laden's death prompted inconclusive but spirited talk of President Obama, Israel, Jews, and terrorism More | |
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