NIF launched today its first advocacy action in recent memory, taking sight at Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s impending decision to end or continue Jerusalem’s “mehadrin” gender segregated buses. You can find the details at NIF’s site and up on Jewschool.
I found this cartoon on a blog posting earlier this year. Anybody know which paper it was [...]
Archive for November, 2009
NIF launches first advocacy action: end the mehadrin buses
November 30th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 2 Comments
Turkey haitus
Turkey haitus, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Back to blogging and NYC life on Monday. Photo of Newport, Oregon.
November 25th, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
Hudnas work
Rockets and mortar attacks on Israel from Gaza, January to December 2008.
Click to zoom. Hat tip to fellow Jewschooler Kol Ra’ash Gadol for passing this along.
November 19th, 2009 Filed under: General. 2 Comments
Have all the “Realists” abandoned diplomacy?
Thank God for Bernard Avishai, who today tackled the jumping of ship from peace negotiations by a few public intellectuals — Tom Friedman and Roger Cohen.
Personally, I think Friedman and Cohen make careers out of being not smart but saying unconventional things. I cannot shake the feeling they don’t believe what they say, and issue [...]
November 18th, 2009 Filed under: General. 0 Comments
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Through the Eyes of Israeli Social Change Activists
From our friends at Breaking the Silence:
You’ve come to Israel for an extended period of time. You go to class, volunteer, travel around, etc. But how much do you really know about “the matzav”? If you are itching to get a closer look at the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for human [...]
November 16th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
My use of new Twitter lists: peace orgs & activists
Follow all of the Jewish/Israel peace orgs and activists at once!
http://twitter.com/kungfujew18/israeli-palestinian-peace
Featuring Hagai El-Ad and ACRI, Gisha, J Street, Israel Policy Forum, Ameinu, the Geneva Accords, Taayush, and more alongside Mobius, Orly Halperin, Joseph Dana, the Shalom Achshav folks, and more to come. This is just a start.
Leave me suggestions in the comments here or @kungfujew18.
November 16th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Parshat Chayei Sarah: Reconsecrating Hebron means giving it up
(To better understand the Jewish scriptures cycle and my approach to my sermonizing versus my blogging, see my explanation. Genesis 23:1 - 25:18)
Hevron, the holy city. The city full of holiness and holes, birthrights and burials. The coins dropped by Abraham into the palms of the Hittites in this parsha echo down the halls of [...]
November 15th, 2009 Filed under: #05 Chayei Sarah and D'var Torah. 3 Comments
Use the force, Obama
Chewie! There’s a Stormtrooper — behind you! (From the official White House Flickr feed.)
November 11th, 2009 Filed under: Humor. 0 Comments
Between a rock and a liberal place
There are days that I envy the right-wing. It’s such an ideologically secure nook to occupy:
Israel is always right (or at least rarely wrong)
Even if Israel is not always right, you certainly don’t say so.
Israel is a prestine democracy and everyone else is anti-Semitic (the UN, Europe) or an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship (the Arab nations).
Everyone to the left [...]
November 11th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Rebuttal to Bob Bernstein
Great rebuttal by Aryeh Neier, fellow Human Rights Watch founder, in the HuffPost to co-founder Bob Bernstein’s critcism of their reporting on Israel’s behavior in Operation Cast Lead. Main points:
Bernstein was a book publisher before HRW, not a civil rights professional as Neier was and is.
Regarding not criticizing open societies: US was an open society [...]
November 3rd, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
