This white paper brings together four letters — two written in a rabbinic voice and two in an Islamic pastoral voice — addressed respectively to the Jewish people, to the Nations, to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and to the leaders of Hamas.
Each letter is written not in the language of accusation but in the cadence of conscience. Each seeks to reveal how our sacred inheritances have been misread and how those misreadings have perpetuated violence, exile, and despair. And each offers the possibility of a third turning of covenant: away from separation and toward kinship, where the dignity of every life and the wholeness of the Earth are honored.
The catastrophe in Israel and Gaza is not a local tragedy alone. It is a mirror of the human condition: the ways we distort chosenness into superiority, dominion into domination, and faith into license for cruelty. The letters gathered here call Jews, Muslims, Christians, secular publics, and all peoples to a single table of truth and reconciliation, where we may learn again what it means to be kin.
