Seventeenth in an ongoing series RISHON LEZION, Israel — So I was buying a bottle of soda at a local kiosk, a convenience store, when three ten-year-old boys walked in and asked the owner for some plastic cups. (Kiosks routinely offer them for free whenever someone purchases a bottle of something to drink, but these […]
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Letter from Israel: A Tale of Two Childhoods
January 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Britain, Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Europe, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East
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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
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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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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Jewish Charity
December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Dating, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — So I was sitting at home when the doorbell rang. I opened the door, and there was a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man with brochures and donations forms. I knew what was coming, but he interjected a question that made me stop before I could shut the door: “Are you married?” (Did he hear somehow that […]
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Year One
December 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bible, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Religion, The Middle East, Torah
BELLEVILLE, Illinois — So while I was visiting my family over Thanksgiving, we watched the movie “Year One” starring Jack Black. It was a comedic retelling of the biblical events from Creation to the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah from the point of view of non-Hebrew protagonists. For anyone who saw the movie and speaks […]
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How to Fight Terror
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — Foreign Policy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits followers: …al Qaeda succeeds because, for more than two decades, the network has waged a successful information campaign that pushes its message out to the world as effectively asymmetrical as its use of suicide bombers on the battlefield. The most important point to understand is that […]
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Civil and Jewish Law
December 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Bible, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Europe, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Talmud, The Middle East, Torah
JERUSALEM — The long-running issue of whether Israel should be a Jewish state based only on ethnicity or on religious law as well recently came to a head again: Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman came under fire Tuesday, after apparently expressing hope that the state’s current legal system will soon be dictated by the Torah… Another former […]
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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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