🎙️ Synopsis

Transcending the Power of Words That Bind Us — Deb Reich (introduced by Jack Reich)

The podcast opens with host Barbara Jean Walsh introducing a Vespers Service featuring writer and peace‑builder Deb Reich, preceded by a warm biographical introduction from her brother Jack Reich. Jack traces Deb’s journey from her New York upbringing to her decades living in Israel and Palestine, where she immersed herself in both Jewish and Palestinian communities and committed her life to intercommunal reconciliation.

Deb’s central theme is how certain words and phrases—especially those used in discourse about Israel and Palestine—become “sacred terminology” that both inspire and imprison us. She argues that these emotionally charged terms accumulate symbolic weig ...