Join us each second Thursday in the undercroft as we explore insights from thought-provoking works. This month, the selection is The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan. The Lemon Tree is a moving work bringing the tragedies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a human scale. In 1967, Bashir, a young Palestinian, journeys to Israel with the goal of seeing his beloved old stone house that he had fled 19 years earlier. Unexpectedly, he is greeted by Dalia, a 19-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship tested over the next 35 years in ways that neither could imagine.