I woke up this morning and received a breathless email from Cecilie Surasky, the Deputy Director of “Jewish Voices for Peace.” The email gleefully announced that in anticipation of the...
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Not Feeling The Love In Israel?
Six years ago, Gallup surveyed individuals in nearly twelve dozen countries (one country for every rose I received today) and asked them, “Did you experience love for a lot of the day yesterday...
Are Israeli Textbooks Any Better Than Palestinian Ones?
Today, a report of a comprehensive comparison between Palestinian and Israeli textbooks was released in Jerusalem. For decades, the common wisdom among politicians has been that Palestinian...
National Geographic’s Whitewashing of Hamas and the Gaza Tunnels
One usually turns to National Geographic to look at the world and marvel at the planet. It covers issues critical to human and animal survival. I love National Geographic and so do my kids. So...
Security on the Ground: A Perspectives Tour
What does security look like on the ground and up close? It is far more intricately woven and much more nuanced than what mass media could possibly convey, or is willing to convey. As an...
Stevie Disses Israel
Stevie Wonder’s statement on why he ditched the FIDF banquet sounds like he is being impartial. Yet, a real impartiality would be to play for both audiences. The fact that he cancelled is a...
6 Major Falsehoods About the UN Vote for Palestine
It’s not my beat to write about politics. I usually leave that to The Middle and CK. But I can’t help but put down some ideas in the wake of the UN vote to create a Palestinian non-member...
Responses to Some Dumb Stuff on Facebook
Guest post by Eden Banarie CK has been trying to get me to write for Jewlicious since, I don’t know, 2008. But I guess it took a perfect storm of conditions – coincidentally sleeping in a...