The generational axiom that all you need is love persisted into the 1970s during the so-called cooling of America, when soft-rock singer-songwriters like Ms. Mitchell, Ms. King and Ms. Simon and male equivalents like James Taylor, Jackson Browne and John Denver personalized the communal conversation.
But even the standoff gave people the time and the mental space to think with cooler heads about their situation, and I felt as if I was tapping into a vibrant communal conversation that revealed both deep disagreements within Palestinian society and a startling, defiant optimism about the future -- if not the near future.
The circular shape just seems to encourage communal conversation in this informal way.
The communal conversation has ballooned and the standard for assimilation is speeding up.
They require sustained critical reflection and communal conversation on issues of political power, economic justice, and, most especially, racism.
It's also about creating a new event where all these young people are learning about this story at the same time and communal conversation arising from that.
Nevertheless, for many if not most students, the first time their school brings them into a communal conversation about what it means to learn, and why learning is valuable, is on the last day of their undergraduate lives.
What tugs at me tonight, as the sixth candle has done its job on window sills and in kitchens and dining rooms around the world, is the grand canyon between the mid-stream Chanukah story and the mid-stream communal conversation sparked by the Pew Study.
"I wanted to create an affirming space for an intra-communal conversation".
The communal table fosters conversation and interaction, which only made our experience more authentic and richly "European".
In the evenings, we sat around a communal table, and the conversation flowed as we compared notes while guessing the names of the stars that twinkled overhead.
