From the UN Secretary-General, a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people, which has to be the most even-handed one-sided statement that I’ve ever read. Where’s all the Israel hating? Palestine Day 2010 (by UN Secretary-General)
Archive for November, 2010
JTA’s fundraising video
You can’t fault them for trying. I still think the Jewish media — JTA, Jewish Week, other federation newsletters — are still covering all the wrong things in all the wrong ways. I don’t read JTA because it’s good reporting or even important issues. I read it because (a) I work in the Jewish world [...]
Nov 18th, 2010 Establishment Jewry 0 Comments
Must read: Bernard Avishai on the latest deal
Few can be so relied upon to analyze the story behind the story as Bernard Avishai. Most bloggers and watchers-from-the-sidelines are but reactionaries and knee-jerk populists — those who can’t see the meat grinder of realpolitik, much less discern it’s workings. Today he details what might be the secret Obama sleight-of-hand in outwardly losing but getting what [...]
Nov 14th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
Back corners of Prospect Park
Back corners of Prospect Park, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. Beautiful.
Nov 13th, 2010 General 0 Comments
Israeli think tank: building in Sheikh Jarrah risks opening “the 1948 files,” harmful to national interests
Worth every word, published by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, interestingly enough published on the one-year anniversary of the Sheikh Jarrah protests! Courtesy of Ori Nir. The Sheikh Jarrah Affair: The Strategic Implications of Jewish Settlement in an Arab Neighborhood in East Jerusalem Yitzhak Reiter and Lior Lehrs Summary In September 2010 the Supreme [...]
Nov 12th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
Sheikh Jarrah mini-documentary: Their side, our side
Israeli filmmaker Harvey Stein, maker of The Heart of the Other, produced this insightful and unbiased 7-minute mini-documentary with interviews of the Jewish settlers and Arab families in Sheikh Jarrah. Presently fair and side-by-side, I still think the verdict comes down against the settlers: their outlook is a religious mandate that sweeps aside Palestinians and [...]
Nov 11th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
New year-long service program in Israel
NIF and Ma’ase Announce New Service Learning Program, Ma’ase Olam – spread the word! Beginning in September 2011, Ma’ase Olam will bring together young North Americans and Israelis for a 10-month service learning program in Israel’s social and geographic periphery communities. Twenty North American Fellows will contribute 25 weekly hours to an Israeli NGO, live [...]
Nov 10th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
Memorials for Rabin, memorials for Kahane
This week, West Side Institutional Synagogue is hosting a memorial to the top Jewish racist in modern history, Rabbi Meir Kahane, hosted by some of his standard bearers such as Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hinkind and Helen Freedman of Americans for a Safe Israel. Purportedly, this is just one of three such memorials in New York [...]
Nov 4th, 2010 Israel 0 Comments
One reason I feel aliyah is awkward
In a provocative blog post on the brilliant +972 Mag, “Please, don’t send your kid on a birthright tour,” Eyal Clyne summarizes tangentially why I have always felt aliyah and the Law of Return is an awkward proposition for native-born Israelis. One could posit this is their price for membership in the Jewish people, one [...]
Nov 1st, 2010 Israel 0 Comments