crossposted to Starhawk's On Faith blog "To be a true friend of Israel"

[johanna_hypatia]

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/starhawk/2007/02/to_be_a_true_friend_of_the_jew.html

I'd like to think Starhawk is onto something valuable here. There is already a small and rapidly growing Pagan movement in Israel that has been restoring worship of the goddesses indigenous to the land like Asherah. Considering how the God of Abraham

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[tanith_astlik]

Thanks for the article, Johanna. I totally agree about giving the Goddess a chance in the Middle East. That's part of the reason I became interested in goddesses indigenous to the area.

[johanna_hypatia]

Tibi beatificationes Magnae Matris sint, amata soror - Barakat al-Umm al-Kubra ‘alayki, ya ukhti al-habibah :)