By Hannah Brown The most commonly used euphemism for autism in Hebrew is “bayat tikshoret†– communication problem. As the mother of an autistic teenage boy living in Israel, I like this term...
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2012
Today at 10 am Israel time, sirens sounded across Israel, and pedestrian and vehicular traffic came to a standstill in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of those that resisted the...
Tiyul B’Aretz: Study Abroad Where Israel Is Your Classroom
Tiyul B’Aretz is a new way of engaging Israel outside the current institutional avenues. If only this program was around when I was in college! Tiyul B’Aretz is run by Tamar Field-Gersh...
A Poem for Gunter Grass: The Tin Ear
As Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize winning German author of The Tin Drum has published a poem, I thought this was an auspicious moment for me to test my poem-writing chops… The Tin Ear There is a man...
The Tin Bum: Did Gunter Gross Write a Pre Passover Blood Libel?
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, and artist – best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum – has written a poem in the SudDeutsche Zeitung today, which tells...
If You Prick Habima, Does It Not Bleed? Emma Thompson Joins BDS
The British Globe To Globe festival is staging 37 plays by Shakespeare performed in various languages at the Globe Theater. They will celebrate productions from Turkey, Ramallah, Iran, and China...
Buy Israeli Stuff Day
The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on its supporters to unite in different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2012. We have a better idea...
Land Day in Jerusalem Kinda Fizzles
Today was “Land Day” – the annual commemoration of events in 1976 when 6 Israeli Arab citizens were killed during protests against security-related land expropriation. It is now...