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The H Word, and Other News
Avi Issacharoff looks at why Israeli media is so unconcerned about Palestinians killing Palestinians. (Haaretz) The haredi in Israel are ...
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 ...
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.� ...
Force or Diplomacy?
Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...
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 ...
Don’t call it a comeback
Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...