Sitting in my office almost forty floors above ground level in midtown Manhattan last week, I was astounded to be drawn away from my work by chants of “Free free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will…
read moreThe Rolling Stones’ first concert in Israel began as the holiday of Shavuot ended, and quite fittingly, too. When better for rock-n-roll royals to journey to the Holy Land than during one of Judaism’s three festivals of pilgrimage? Moreover, when…
read moreIt has become fashionable to label Israel as an apartheid state. Bishop Tutu has been in the vanguard of this libel, together with his calls for boycotting Israel. I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid years and witnessed…
read moreOn March 8, 2014, a panel at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York discussed the issue of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel in response to an earlier panel held there in support of such…
read moreBy this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students…
read moreYom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, has become a yearly tradition in which we reflect on those lives senselessly taken amidst the horrors of the Holocaust. It also reminds us of the fragility, as well as the vulnerability, of human…
read moreWährend der nahöstliche Friedensprozess zwischen Israelis und der PA erwartungsgemäß an mangelnden Zugeständnissen der Palästinenser vorläufig gescheitert ist, während Mahmoud Abbas damit droht, die Osloer Verträge – und damit Sicherheitsvereinbarungen vor Ort mit Israel – endgültig zu beerdigen, sieht die…
read moreWährend der nahöstliche Friedensprozess zwischen Israelis und der PA erwartungsgemäß an mangelnden Zugeständnissen der Palästinenser vorläufig gescheitert ist, während Mahmoud Abbas damit droht, die Osloer Verträge – und damit Sicherheitsvereinbarungen vor Ort mit Israel – endgültig zu beerdigen, sieht die…
read moreThe modern state of Israel was born in the mind of an ecstatic playwright named Theodor Herzl. It was an idea, a story, and a drama long before it became the physical reality that it is today. Before it could…
read moreDear Dr. Romirowsky and Dr. Joffe, In round one you told us about the intriguing history of the involvement of a Quaker NGO (the AFSC) in the early beginnings of the Palestine refugee relief effort. Another interesting aspect of the…
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