JERUSALEM — Stefanie Gardner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the success of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Caroline Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston identifies Israel’s “ten” worst errors of […]
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Decade-Roundup from Israel
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
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Book Review: “The Kuzari,” An Introduction
December 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Christianity, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah
First in a series A Preface BOSTON — When I was Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Spare Change News, a non-profit newspaper that covered social-justice issues including poverty and homelessness while providing jobs selling the publication to homeless people, I attended a local, Passover seder in Cambridge for homeless people. Local Jews had hosted such an […]
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Human Rights
December 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Health, Israel, Law, Palestine, Politics, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — Peter Tatchell believes that the world should have a human-rights index similar to the ones that measure economic performance and quality of life. I have one question: What is to stop so-called human-rights organizations from instilling their biases against Israel — as the founder of Human Rights Watch admits they have — in […]
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Daily Reading
December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Business, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Finance, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Politics, Technology, The Middle East
What (formerly) everyday items have disappeared in the last decade? The effects of unemployment are devastating — not only to the person who lost his job, but also to those around him. Making sense of modern anti-Semitism. How to live happily on 75-percent less money. The cultural rise and decline of “The Simpsons” over the […]
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Israel and Britain
December 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
JERUSALEM — Relations between England and Israel might not be as warm as one might think: One of Britain’s most eminent historians has assailed the country’s policy towards Israel, questioning why Queen Elizabeth II has visited a host of despotic regimes but has never made an official visit to the Holy Land. Speaking at the Anglo-Israel […]
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Foreign Policy
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Feminism, Hizbollah, Islam, Israel, Law, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
The magazine looks at Hizbollah’s “halal [sexual] hookups” and whether Afghanistan will become President Obama’s Vietnam Continue reading
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Newspaper Politics
December 12th, 2009 · 17 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — So I was unfolding the weekend papers to read over Shabbat when the insert pictured above dropped out of the Jerusalem Post. It was a printed copy of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Now, the two English-language newspapers in Israel are the Post and the English version of Ha’aretz, which is one […]
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War on Christmas (in Israel)
December 12th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Business, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
RISHON LEZION, Israel — In the United States, the so-called “War on Christmas” is commonly known as a political movement by the Religious Right. Well, the Jewish state is seeing the flip side of the religious coin — to keep Christmas “out”: The “Lobby for Jewish values” this week began operating against restaurants and hotels that […]
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