The nature of the discussion about Israel tends to focus on the political and cultural. Sadly, these days we often find ourselves asking pointed questions about Israel’s military and security...
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The Last Palestinian
A couple of years ago, Robert Malley, who had worked under Dennis Ross, along with Hussein Agha, wrote a very important article for the NY Review of Books. In that article, they provided the first...
Ambitious Rabbi Divides Community
Speaking of the New York Times, they had an interesting story about the new rabbi who took a three hour bus ride to the town of Greenport, NY to interview for a position leading the town’s only...
Oy! A Light unto the Nations Indeed!
The New York Times had a cover story yesterday about the laxness of Israeli banks in compensating Holocaust victims who had assets locked away and who should have received compensation for those...
Go To Israel! See the land! Meet the people! Feel the history beneath your feet! Sell Drugs!
Morons of the year award to the four young American men who went to Israel to study at yeshiva and engaged in more than torah study. Yup, they went all the way to the Holy Land in order to sell drugs...
Well, that is it then, the conflict is over!
Uh, at least that’s what Luxembourg foreign minister and current president of the European Union Council of Ministers, Jean Asselborn, thinks. The `Arafat excuse’ no longer exists. This...