& Through the Eyes of Back

by Kelly ~inlan guest writer

February 18, 2002 - To a packed room, Dr. Rachel Tzvia Back read from her latest collection of poetty, Azimuth. This followed a lecture in which she tackled such controversial issues as US-Israeli relations and IsraeliPalestinian relations, ending Cabrini's week-long Cultural Kaleidoscope.

University in Jerusalem, and she moved to Israel in 1981. She became the seventh generation of her family to live in Palestine. She ·livesin Lower Galilee in a small village on the northern side of a hil1top with her husband and three children. On the southern side of the same hilltop are the ruins of the Arab town of Miar. Its inhabitants were evacuated •and never allowed to return; this town was dismembered over time. On a