"Oh dry bones I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live again. I will lay sinews upon you and cover you with flesh and form skin over you, and I will put breath into you, and you shall live again." So said Ezekiel the prophet. In this book one brave man with extraordinary energy and insight called on world luminaries to change the bigotry of man. He called for unity as the only tool to save humanity from its own perils. On the surface, priests, rabbis, mullahs, monks, abbots responded to the call. But in their heart each one focused on the particular religion he leads as the only...

What could possibly connect an ancient Jewish tribe of the first millenium with the star of an all-female theater in modern-dayJapan? Driven by storms and calamity, the tribe of Dan lands on an icy Japanese mountaintop. When Masami, a star in the popular Takarazuka Theater, meets someone who refuses to bow out of her life, storms and calamity of a different nature ensue. Masami explores the very heart of this century-spanning linkage and offers the readers the gift of a truly cross-cultural experience.