Old City Jerusalem, Al-Quds, Yerushalaim: Calm in the eye of the storm

The familiar images of aggression are surprisingly absent from the Old City, yet less than 20 minutes away, violence rages. Why have Jews, Muslims and Christians been fighting for control of this city for at least a millennia? How can physical proof of our shared beginnings, the root of all 3 of our mythologies and traditions, spur us to such division and destruction?

It is amazing that here, despite being in the eye of the storm, we as Jews, Christians and Muslims are capable of co-existing. The Old City of Jerusalem is indeed a living paradox.

Every evening the singing of the Koran mixes with the chanting of Hebrew prayers and the tolling of the Church bells. Wonder of wonders...hope can be found in the most peculiar places.