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Football, Fascism and Me

Jason Pearlman — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:56:20 +0000

Well this is not a situation in which I had envisaged finding myself. My two worlds have collided. I, like most in my generation, have never found any real tear between our allegiances to the UK and our love and loyalty for Israel and Judaism. True, the odd Foreign Office statement has left me frustrated [...]

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The spirit of Passover past

Jason Pearlman — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:18:32 +0000

This is the story of a Passover that I remember every Passover, and a seder night that both haunts and comforts me. Let me take you back four years. “It smells of sweet corn,” the doctor said to me as I gathered the mountainous reams of paperwork that constituted my wife’s ever-growing medical records. “I beg [...]

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A family affair

Jason Pearlman — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:47:49 +0000

I am blessed. I come from a loving family, the youngest after my elder brother and sister, and therefore the most spoiled child. However, recent events have brought home a rather awkward realisation. I am the runt of the litter. Now, thankfully, I did ‘OK’ at school, married my amazing wife, have been blessed with two gorgeous [...]

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Heeding history at the ballot box

Jason Pearlman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:27:17 +0000

Just the briefest of looks at the polls in the run up to this election, should make anyone on the Right of the Israeli political spectrum smile and relax. It seems that however you cut it, the Right-wing bloc has a discernible lead, and that the elections are therefore just a question of how big [...]

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Equalizing the national burden has waited long enough

Jason Pearlman — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:48 +0000

In the run up to elections, parties and candidates like to say time is running out. With the firing of the electoral gun, time suddenly becomes a commodity more rare and of higher value than diamonds. In Israel, there is one issue that seems more than any to have the ‘time is running out’ tag [...]

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In this election, experience equals change

Jason Pearlman — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:14:04 +0000

With so many new parties and personalities in this election, it is difficult to really understand what they actually stand for. History has shown that new parties – often cobbled together with the aim of getting elected and not much else – achieve little, hinder the larger parties from whom they have drawn mandates, and [...]

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A soldier’s mother’s plea

Jason Pearlman — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:26:51 +0000

At the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada, I was in Israel with Bnei Akiva on a year long course before beginning university back in England. As my fellow ‘foreigners’ and I settled in alongside our Israeli peers a very different reality began to set in. As the violence grew, and [...]

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Rededicating the Jewish Establishment

Jason Pearlman — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:25:18 +0000

There are many symbolic comparisons that combine the election season and the festival of Hanukkah. The age old expression of Jewish independence in the land of our Forefathers, and the modern day realization of Jewish democratic sovereignty on that very soil. For me, living in Modi’in, the city of the Hasmoneans, this is brought evermore [...]

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A National Religious Vote

Jason Pearlman — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:47:28 +0000

Legendary comedian Jackie Mason says of the scramble that ensues as his audience leave on the conclusion of his act, that “Nobody wants to be the second one out of the building”. So it seems the same can be said of the Centre-Left of Israeli politics, except instead of leaving the building, they are trying [...]

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Ceasefire, but control the agenda

Jason Pearlman — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:37:49 +0000

In 1936, after a yet another round of violent attacks on the Yishuv’s Jewish communities, David Ben-Gurion made a statement which resonates today as clearly today as it did then. “Those who murdered our people… not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us… The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They [...]

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The Anglo vote for a big tent

Jason Pearlman — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:08:53 +0000

There is no doubting the Anglo contribution to the State of Israel. English speaking olim (immigrants) have stood at the heart and head of Israeli innovation, social projects, business, medicine and academia since before the establishment of the State. And we do so with gratitude and pride. Of course we like to reminisce fondly about [...]

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