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Daily Archives: July 20, 2018

Choosing our role models and mentors

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We identify role models in the family, high school, college, graduate school, law school, synagogue, and  in our chosen professions. As we meet new people they may join the pantheon; when some fall from grace, we...

Un Padre, Una Ija I Un Perro

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Aze atensyon ! Otro un poko i ivas azer un aksidente ! Ivas a tokar al auto del lado ! No puedes azer nada bien ? Me grito mi padre…. Estas palavras me tokaron mas ke un...
A demonstration in Seattle by the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace. Credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons.

Can pro-BDS anti-Semites redefine anti-Semitism?

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At first glance, it sounds reasonable. There is nothing wrong with seeking to differentiate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism. After all, Israelis criticize Israel’s democratically elected government every day. Like any other nation, its...
Photo by Jason, Via Flickr

Ghettoizing Israel, re-ghettoizing the Jews

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The drive to ghettoize Israel merges with the campaign to re-ghettoize the Jews. The goal is to return Jews as a people to marginalized statelessness. So, quarrels over whether anti-Zionism amounts to anti-Semitism waste time....
Palestinian Hamas militants set fire to a coffin wrapped with U.S. flag during an anti-Israeli rally in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip on Dec. 11, 2009. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

Hamas refuses to work with Greenblatt, Kushner, calling them ‘spokesmen for the Israeli occupation’

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Hamas has rejected working with the United States on fostering peace between Gaza and Israel on Friday, despite U.S. agreements to work with the organization if it renounces terrorism. U.S. Middle East envoys Jared Kushner...
From left: Ron Werner, Mayor Gadi Yarkoni, CEO of Jewish National Fund-USA Russell Robinson, Michal Uziyahu, Alon Shuster and kids in Eshkol plant an olive tree in the burnt ground where an incendiary kite from Gaza had destroyed all vegetation. Credit: Courtesy.

Safe play area, fire protection: Boosting life in Israeli towns on the precarious Gaza...

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Ilana Safaniev of Sderot, a town on Israel’s southern border with Gaza, isn’t thinking about the barrage of incendiary kites or balloons scorching the land, homes and communities of Israel’s Western Negev. She’s also...
Hamas members take part in a rally marking the Palestinian terror group’s 29th anniversary Dec.16, 2016, in Gaza. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

A failure at state-building, Hamas sticks to military build-up in Gaza

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Tensions between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip remain high, following a period when Gazan terror factions fired large numbers of projectiles at southern Israeli regions, drawing return Israeli airstrikes. Mass arson attacks...
The railway leading up to the main gate at the Nazis' former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp. Credit: Michel Zacharz via Wikimedia Commons.

Swiss politician says Hitler ‘can’t have been so bad,’ sparks fury

A Swiss politician is facing expulsion from the country’s center-right Conservative Democratic party after he said that late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “can’t have been that infinitely bad.” In an online discussion about a Swiss...
Jorge Zak, vice president of Taglit in South America, addresses the young audience at a memorial for the 85 people killed at the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2018. Credit: Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Remembering the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, 24 years later

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In an event organized by Taglit, better known in the United States as Birthright Israel, 80 young Argentinians gathered on the rooftop of the Hotel Rut Daniel in Tel Aviv on July 18 for...

The Peace Train: Uniting People

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The Peace Train is coming and we can all get high on the Peace Train as Sharon Katz has brought her band to San Diego and Tijuana, starting with last night’s rousing performance at...