neighborliness

A small, courageous group of Jews and Palestinians in Jaffa has already created an initiative exhibiting the challenges of neighborliness in the face of prolific national anger.

In retrospect, this may have overestimated Californians’ neighborliness when water is at stake.

It is called the Falepili Union, he said, and is based on the Tuvaluan word for the traditional values of good neighborliness, care and mutual respect.

“We hope the focus will be on good neighborliness and the economy. The door of good relations should be open.”

Today, village attributes — including neighborliness, public schools that teach rather than preach, and vibrant civic cultures — look especially attractive when compared with urban dystopias, from Baltimore to San Francisco.