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Gaza/West Bank Fantasies
Nahum Barnea argues that current notions, based on a total Fatah/West bank and Hamas/Gaza separation are based on utterly unrealistic ...
Debating Peoplehood
Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...
Trying to be colorblind
Apparently there’s a new crisis in our community–addressing Jews of color.Or at least Jewish communal leaders are creating said crisis.The ...
A New Image for Israel
For our blog readers who also subscribe to Sports Illustrated (I know this may be a small percentage), “This Week’s ...
Coming to Israel
The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...
The Future (or Death) of Theology
The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...
Force or Diplomacy?
Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...
Where Have All the Theologians Gone?
The week The Forward has an op-ed from Elliot Cosgrove, a young, dynamic rabbi out of Chicago, asking “Where Have ...
From Midway to the Mideast
In the latest issue of Newsweek, NYC District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a professor at the ...
Kurt Waldheim, Dead at 88
This just in: Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German ...
Is the PA Disbanding?
GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...