Joel Magid, at The Blogs

Nov 6, 2023, 5:33 AM

The Day (and Years) After…for Gaza and Israel

Yoel Magid: Proposals for The Day (and Years) After…for Gaza and Israel While it’s hard to take our eyes and hearts off the incredible suffering and brutality of war in live time, many are asking (mostly of Israel, not so...

Mar 28, 2015, 1:10 AM

Bibi’s Choices

While it's pretty clear that Bibi's victory and probable formation of a very right-wing coalition will lead to world-wide pressure on Israel and a very nasty division in the American Jewish community, there are things that Bibi can do...

Sep 4, 2014, 10:35 PM

International Humanitarian Solution to Rebuilding Gaza

The best way to rebuild Gaza while answering Israel's security concerns is by establishing a joint Egyptian-UN international zone in the northern Sinai ten miles or so south of the Egyptian border with Gaza. The zone, administered and monitored...

Sep 2, 2014, 11:49 PM

Prefabricated housing for rebuilding Gaza

The best way to expedite the rebuilding of housing in Gaza while meeting Israel's security need of making sure that building materials are truly being used for civilian purposes, would be to use prefabricated housing. The prefabricated housing could...

About Me

Yoel Magid holds a doctorate in English literature from Columbia, volunteered in Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War on Kibbutz Be’eri, where he became General Secretary of the Kibbutz and organized a school in foreign languages for the study of kibbutz. Returned to the US in 1999, becoming Executive Director of Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY; frequent lecturer on literature and politics.