{"id":49112,"date":"2019-02-10T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49112"},"modified":"2022-09-04T16:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:19:50","slug":"a-sanctuary-and-a-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-sanctuary-and-a-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sanctuary And A Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[467,423],"acf":{"old_id":"49112","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"152","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Sanctuary Cities - responding to trauma in the world","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is something about the Cities of Refuge in today\u2019s chapter that feels both emphatically archaic and distinctly modern. The notions of blood guilt, vigilante justice, the rights of family to avenge and places to offer sanctuary- these seem cut from Viking and medieval cloth, rough justice that the courts and magistrates replaced with process and procedure. Permanently populated by Levites, these cities were geographically dispersed and meticulously planned; presumably, they all looked the same, with the same blueprint. As with the ecclesiastical notion of sanctuary, they were a part of the law and an exception to it. They enabled a legal system to accommodate both formal innocence and deeper guilt in a way that our modern arrangement does not. They are reminiscent of the trials by combat and ordeal that we have excised from our jurisprudence, methods of ascertaining the truth less dependent on testimony than augurs and outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, cities of refuge strike a modern chord. We live at a moment when the movements of people from places of danger to those of safety is a subject of near unrivalled import and debate. The law strains to respond to this reality, which encompasses border-crossings and global migration patterns. Cities have set themselves up as contemporary \u201csanctuary cities\u201d and refused to enforce federal immigration laws, an echo of the ancient idea that these are places aside and apart, urban exceptions that both respond to trauma in the world and offer a respite from it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like the Cities of Refuge in our chapter, sanctuary cities call into deep question the relation of law and morality, and the justification for making exceptions when contingency seems overwhelming. 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