Robbie Gringras, at The Blogs

Robbie Gringras

British-born Israeli writer, performer, and educator

Jan 16, 2025, 2:37 PM

The limits of our tolerance? ‘Mere Civility’ in wartime

Over this past year the Jewish community in the USA has found the limits of its pluralism being stretched to breaking. While there are many whose commitment to Israel has increased significantly since the Hamas attack and hostage-taking in...

Jun 20, 2024, 11:46 PM

Can American and Israeli Jews argue in wartime?

It is challenging enough to have healthy arguments about important things. Even more challenging when the healthy arguments are between American Jews and Israelis since both groupings have different approaches to argument. Add to that the hyper-emotional state of...

Jan 31, 2024, 7:10 PM

What happens with our book when we’re not in the room?

Do you ever wonder about those multi-colored toys that babies play with? Those constructions that have triangle-shaped, circle-shaped, and square-shaped holes, and the baby is supposed to push shapes into the correct holes? They are amazing educational tools. They...

Dec 12, 2023, 12:20 AM

Words, hope, pain, and denial – two months on

‘Reflecting on Our Missings’, (Atlanta, USA), 2011. Image by Boomshiva rasta. Artwork by Know Hope

A few weeks ago I spent two intense days with a group of educators mostly from North America, who had come to Israel in order to meet those affected by the October 7th attack. Funded by the Jim Joseph...

Nov 1, 2023, 6:20 PM

Can we talk? Or is it too soon?

Is it too early for us to talk openly and broadly about the war? Some of us need to close down or narrow debate. Some of us are in too much pain to think and speak clearly, and some...

Oct 10, 2023, 4:15 PM

The Arguments of Tomorrow

As Israelis, we cannot think beyond the horror of the terrorist atrocities across the South of Israel. We cannot see beyond the closed stores (so many store keepers off in army reserve duty), the families suddenly denuded of adult...

Aug 13, 2023, 6:20 PM

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The Ukraine argument and the four Hatikvah questions

Ukrainians are dying to defend the classic Zionist idea: 'To be a people, free in our land.' But is that no more than foolish 'liberal nationalism'?

Feb 9, 2022, 5:37 PM

Picking the wrong argument

Forget Amnesty International reports: the new A word is “Argument”. When my colleague and friend, Abi Dauber Sterne and I were setting up our new educational project, For the Sake of Argument, friends grimaced. They asked us if we...

About Me

Robbie Gringras is a British-born Israeli writer, performer, and educator. He lives on the top of a hill in the Galilee. He is co-director with Abi Dauber Sterne of For the Sake of Argument. www.forthesakeofargument.org

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