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Rina Ne'eman

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May 12, 2013
3:58 am

Women and the Wall: Let’s talk about unity

Like many Israelis and Jews all over the world, I woke up on Friday agape and aghast at the images of what took place that morning at the Western......

April 14, 2013
8:32 pm

So far away: digital flags and deliberations

These days, the week and a half in spring that encompass Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) in commemoration of our fallen soldiers and victims of......

March 12, 2013
3:25 pm

The other delegitimization

Back in the day, when I was a student at Hebrew University, I had the privilege of studying and working with a greatly beloved professor by the name of......

February 3, 2013
5:39 pm

Standing with Israel, the kid everybody loves to hate

'Rina Ne’eman, what do you think of this?” A friend, well-known for his love of all things provocative, posted, yet again, an article highly critical of Israel on his Facebook......

January 19, 2013
1:01 am

This time – we all vote?

There is a great public service announcement making the rounds in the days before the upcoming national elections. The essence of the message is This Time – We All Vote. It......

January 7, 2013
3:19 am

Home, identity and connection

Being in Israel always causes me to ponder my identity and my sense of home. I used to believe that when you belong to two places, you can't be......

December 15, 2012
3:10 pm

Terror and fear, American-style

My friends and neighbors in the United States are constantly asking me whether it is not dangerous in Israel and whether I’m not afraid to travel there, as I......

December 8, 2012
6:15 pm

Language, labels and the Arab-Israeli conflict

I’m a translator and an interpreter. I love nothing more than words and labels. I adore the neatness and order of grammar and syntax, the richness and nuance of......

November 20, 2012
6:05 am

If I abandon my post on Facebook, will Israel still win the war?

Yesterday I wrote, in self-deprecating jest, “if I briefly abandon my post on Facebook, will Israel still win the war?” For I, like so many others who cherish Israel, have......

November 17, 2012
8:33 am

A No Man’s Land of the Heart

It is terribly hard to be away from Israel in these days of war. I feel like I am in a no-man’s land of the heart. My heart and......

November 6, 2012
12:59 pm

The Death of Arrogance

It is hard to believe that it has been an entire week since the whole world turned upside down and inside out for all of us in New York......

October 31, 2012
3:09 pm

Minyan in the master bedroom

It all started with my dear friend Jules. Motzei-Hurricane-Sandy (that’s the night following Hurricane Sandy, for any non-Jewish readers out there), I got a message from his wife, Sue.......

October 30, 2012
11:10 pm

Love and Internet, all the time

The idiom refers to the quiet before the storm, but nobody ever mentions the quiet that follows it. Hebrew music lovers of a certain age might remember an old......