Fear and Daniel Gordis
Rob Eshman
August 22, 2012
For reasons I can’t quite understand, many leaders in the pro-Israel community continue to insist that the young generation of American Jews has abandoned Israel.
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israeli
Opinion: Don’t set back reproductive rights for Israeli women
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2012
In 1979, I moved from the United States to Israel, where I discovered that unlike in America, reproductive choice in Israel was by and large not an issue — not religiously, politically or socially.
Jews, Arabs, dolphins
David Suissa
January 18, 2012
Negative stereotypes can be numbing. One that has dulled our senses for years is that Jews and Arabs can’t get along. Many of us simply take it for granted. Read haaretz.com regularly, and you might even conclude that Israel’s Arab population is living miserably under an apartheid-like regime.
Israel at a crossroads: Danger or opportunity?
Jewish Journal
August 31, 2011
Israel stands at a crossroads once again, threatened from within by the lack of solidarity and crisis of trust between the Israeli government and the middle class. Israel is also threatened from without by the ‘’Palestinian September’’ as the Palestinians take their case for an independent State to the United Nations.
Scandals and war fallout cast doubt on Olmert’s leadership
Leslie Susser
January 25, 2007
Even if Olmert is innocent, critics say he won\’t be able to govern because he\’ll be too busy trying to clear his name.
War of Words and Ads Over Gaza
David Finnigan
August 11, 2005
In Israel, settlers are facing off with soldiers as the date nears for the mid-August withdrawal of Jews from Gaza. In the United States, that conflict is playing out in rhetoric as supporters and foes of disengagement buy ads and opponents plan a final local rally.
View on Mideast ‘Embarrassing’
Ira Forman
April 29, 2004
Recently former President Jimmy Carter spoke out about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as he visited Texas.
Who’s to Blame for Terror?
Loolwa Khazzoom
January 1, 2004
Like many hothead progressives around the world, I preach antiracism, teach multiculturalism and recognize the United States to be a politically and culturally imperialistic society.
Proper revolutionary that I am, I have no problem with guerrilla warfare against oppressive regimes, and I fully recognize that \”terrorism\” can be a political term used to invalidate the violent behavior of one group and justify that of another.
One might say I\’m an all-around, groovy radical. And yet, I\’ve got a major problem with compassion for Palestinian suicide bombers blowing up Israeli citizens
British Writer Snubs Pro-Israel Letters
Richard Allen Greene
August 14, 2003
\”I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it,\” Richard Ingrams wrote in his July 13 column.
Your Letters
Jewish Journal
September 5, 2002
We are writing in support of the opinion expressed by Steve Berman opposing the policy of United Jewish Communities (UJC) supporting settlers living beyond what will be the revised Green Line (\”Withholding Our Funds From Territories,\” Aug. 30).
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