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Jan 22, 2022, 1:15 AM

Martin Luther King and Peace – Black Circles and Yellow Stars

If Martin Luther King Jnr. was alive today, what would his advice be to Israel’s disparate peace NGOs and civil rights organisations? I believe he’d say, “Work together towards your common goal. Don’t give up. Talk to those who disagree...

Oct 2, 2019, 10:22 PM

Pure Jazz Magic – The Niggen Quartet

I’ll admit it. I’m a jazz aficionado. When living in London in the early 1970s and again in the late 1980s, Ronnie Scott’s was my bolt hole and I was proud to be called a friend by the eponymous...

Mar 25, 2015, 11:19 PM

How dare you say my place is not in Israel

Guy Spigelman wrote a blog in Ha'aretz from the heart today. He said "Something broke on the morning of March 18, something deep. For the first time since moving to Israel 21 years ago, I thought perhaps my place...

Mar 17, 2015, 1:46 AM

Hope versus Fear

We've finally arrived at the big day. Israel goes to the polls and chooses its direction for the next one, two, three or, possibly, even four years. Yesterday, Netanyahu simplified matters. He stated that if we elect him, we can forget about...

Mar 10, 2015, 10:53 PM

Bibi is on the way out

Despite having witnessed the tremendous response to the V15 campaign; despite having observed the thousands of volunteers knocking on doors in district after district to persuade people to actually vote for change; despite the 85,000 likes on the V15 Facebook...

Jul 31, 2014, 12:14 PM

We Cry For The People of Gaza BUT We Won’t Lay Down and Die

To all my friends in the UK and other countries around the world:When you watch TV from Gaza in Arabic, you hear Hamas leader, after Hamas leader saying that they will not stop until every Jew is dead. When you...

Oct 13, 2013, 9:57 PM

Dudi Sela, Arsenal and The Peace Process

So, after my unexpected subject matter (to me at least) last week on my TOI debut, what will I be bending your ears , or actually eyes, about on a fairly regular basis? Well I'll be writing about the...

Oct 8, 2013, 1:37 PM

What is Happening at Hadassah?

Well. I didn't think that this would be the subject of my first/virgin/maiden (are any of these acceptable?) blog. It will be short but, I believe, important. A young, emergency room doctor at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where my son...

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Baruch Velleman is a management accountant, social worker, educator, Masorti Jew, peace activist, and works for a sports-based, co-existence charity and in community centres