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ETAI annual conference: Power and purpose in three days

Michael Weinberg — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:37:20 +0000

I just awoke from a needed rest after returning from three days of attendance at the ETAI(English Teachers Association in Israel) Annual Conference from Monday, July 2nd to Wednesday July, 4th. While I still am not clear about the conference theme for the year: Keeping An Open Mind as this could be the generic title [...]

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Shavuos Shame

Michael Weinberg — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:58:49 +0000

Shabbos and Shavuos were spent eating, learning, imbibing good food and drink and conversation with good friends and assorted company. Shavuos night a friend and I sat for some time after our meal and learned some sweet chassidish stories connected to Shavuos. We learned some very basic Kabbalistic principles related to Shavuos and then decided [...]

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JNF Negev Tour: Beyond Jerusalem: a JNF Pesach Excursion, South

Michael Weinberg — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:25:29 +0000

April 10, 2012 Intro As Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzamut, and Yom Yerushalayim all just recently passed, I reflect upon a recent Pesach excursion withJewish National Fund. Just as during Pesach we celebrated freedom so too as the smell of bbq –and freedom—has permeated the entire city ofJerusalemover the course of the past several [...]

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A Shroud of Honor

Michael Weinberg — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:30:12 +0000

I am borrowing the title, albeit amended, from a recent article by Hirsch Goodman written for the Jerusalem Post. In this article he puts forth a number of assertions I find particularly egregious and nauseating. I was not there when this incident occurred, nor was Goodman. That said I will add that I have never [...]

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Why are missiles falling in Israel?

Michael Weinberg — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:20:42 +0000

Surely international entities like the United Nations, international terrorist infrastructure and countries from America to Europe, Iran to China can be seen as influencing the on-off-on-again barrage of missiles upon Israeli civilians. Several years back it was from Hezbollah in the North, this time around it was from Hamas and cohorts in Gaza bombarding the [...]

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Return to Apartheid

Michael Weinberg — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:05:42 +0000

Introduction The Israel Apartheid Week worldwide “global event” is once again pasted across newspaper headlines, google searches, blogs, and op-ed pages of countless newspapers and media outlets. The planners and attendees of the 8th Annual Israel Apartheid Week contend their efforts are to bring equality, peace, prosperity, and strength to a maligned and abused minority [...]

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