February 2, 2013
3:00 am

‘The Gatekeepers’ — see it

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January 20, 2013
11:28 pm

A Man, a Woman, and a Baby

From Maimonides: Our sages commanded us to visit the non-Jewish sick and to bury the non-Jewish dead along with the Jewish dead, and support the non-Jewish poor along with the......

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June 12, 2012
9:26 am

The West Bank in Israel

Historian Gershom Gorenberg, in his book “The Unmaking of Israel,” devotes an entire chapter making the case that the ideology and practices of radical Jewish settlers and......

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April 22, 2012
12:12 am

Home Demolitions: A Challenge to Israel’s Moral Credibility

“I still remember the day the Israelis destroyed our house. It was the last day of Ramadan…. Suddenly we heard some noise outside, and when my father looked out......

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April 9, 2012
1:10 pm

A review of Peter Beinart’s ‘The Crisis of Zionism’

If Israel does not survive as a Jewish democratic state, I want to be able to tell my children that I did what little I’m capable of. I’m a......

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April 4, 2012
8:36 am

Hope: Former IDF soldiers and Palestinian militants

Last Friday I found myself sitting in a large room with 30 former IDF soldiers and Palestinian militants. As I looked around the room, I could imagine many of......

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March 20, 2012
6:39 am

To boycott or not to boycott?

For the past few years, my wife and I, always preferring to buy Israeli made-goods whether we are in Israel or the USA, have been carefully scrutinizing labels on......

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March 15, 2012
8:12 pm

The Negev: A Bedouin Village versus a JNF Forest

There was a clear blue sky after many days of rain when we drove to Al-Arakib near Be’er Sheva down in the Negev. The air was cool but the......

March 10, 2012
10:41 pm

From Africa to Tel Aviv, Part Three: Demonizing Asylum Seekers

In my prior two posts (here and here) I described the plight of African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv and how the Israeli government is......

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March 4, 2012
5:32 am

From Africa to Tel Aviv, Part Two: draconian policies

In a previous post I described the plight of African refugees in Levinsky Park in downtown Tel Aviv, where many hundreds, ill clothed and hungry, face an unprecedentedly cold and......

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February 29, 2012
5:47 pm

From Africa to Tel Aviv: Part One

It was 6:45 a.m. when I arrived at Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv, across from the central bus station. I was bundled up in a coat, scarf, ski......

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February 19, 2012
9:23 pm

Singing to the soldiers

There we were, standing on the edge of the ledge, facing a line of armed-to-the-teeth Israeli soldiers 15 feet away from us -- as if our scraggily band of......

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February 16, 2012
10:06 pm

A Virtual Tour of East Jerusalem

In January I went on a drive through East Jerusalem with Ir Amim, a human rights NGO that works to protect the rights of all of Jerusalem’s......

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