Category
bedouin
House of Wheels: Helping those with impaired mobility integrate
Orit Arfa
November 24, 2015
With her black skin; jeans and T-shirt; and long, wiry, black hair not covered by a hijab, it was hard to tell that Shariyan Alkmlat, 22, is Bedouin, unlike the staffers around her clad in Bedouin robes.
Umm al-Hiran, racism and the confounding of Zionism
David Seidenberg
August 26, 2015
The Israeli government is set to destroy Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin village in the Negev, to build a Jewish town in its place, which will be called Hiran.
Two Israelis missing in the Gaza Strip, Israel says it holds Hamas responsible
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2015
Avraham Mengistu, 29, an Ethiopian-Israeli who reportedly suffers from mental illness, has been missing in the Gaza Strip for ten months, it was revealed following the lifting of a gag order.
Rahat’s week from Hell
Simone Wilson
January 29, 2015
Mayor Talal Al Krenawi was tired. He’d been in and out of media interviews, meetings, mourning circles and angry phone calls for days.
As rockets fly, poor towns in southern Israel cry out for better protection
Jewish Journal
July 22, 2014
Fares Alhozael doesn’t want much from the Israeli government.
Rocket from Syria lands in Golan, Bedouin sisters injured near Beersheba
Jewish Journal
July 14, 2014
A rocket fired from Syria landed in the Golan Heights, and a rocket near Beersheba injured two Bedouin sisters.
State Dept. Israel report focuses on Bedouin
Jewish Journal
February 28, 2014
A focus of this year’s U.S. State Department human rights report on Israel was Bedouin rights.
The Bedouin, human rights, and ‘legitimacy’: A final word to Gerald Steinberg
Jewish Journal
December 19, 2013
Gerald Steinberg has asked that I respond to the specific charges he levies against human rights organizations, my colleague Rabbi John Rosove, and me regarding our involvement in protecting the rights of some 30-40,000 Bedouin to avoid forced expulsion from their homes.
Some Jewish questions for rabbis Jacobs and Rosove
Jewish Journal
December 18, 2013
Asking questions is a central aspect of Jewish tradition – indeed, formulating good questions is more important than trying to provide answers. Questions reflect the complexity of the human condition, as well as humility in acknowledging the inability to give ready answers in the face of this complexity
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