Alexander Griffing, at The Blogs

Jul 4, 2013, 6:28 PM

Alice Walker’s July 4th Betrayal of Liberalism

The celebrated author of the ‘Color Purple,’ Alice Walker, has received a lot of negative attention in the Israeli and Jewish media lately for an open letter she penned to Alicia Keys in early June asking the singer to...

Feb 21, 2013, 2:48 PM

Will Bibi betray the ‘arc of history’?

The January 22nd election results have handed sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a historic opportunity to reform Israeli society and secure for himself a positive, substantive legacy of social reform. The media and political pundits focusing more on the...

Jan 22, 2013, 12:56 AM

Tzipi Hotoveli’s Israel: Left, Right & Center

The day before the Israeli general elections David Remnik, the editor of the New Yorker, published a scathing critique of what he sees as the new emerging right within Israeli politics. Remnik employs over 9,000 words in his article,...

About Me

Alexander Griffing was born in Boulder, Colorado and raised in Steamboat Springs, CO. He earned a BA in Government from Claremont McKenna College in CA. A former White House intern and Teach For America 8th grade Science and Social Studies teacher, Alexander has lived in Israel since 2010 and is currently a graduate student at Tel Aviv University.