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Six Years without Gilad Shalit
October 2, 2011It’s been 6 years since Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. This is the Shana Tova (New Year) greeting that was mailed out to politicians and government officials by the family as a reminder. A few days ago the Palestinian Prime Minister … Israel’s News & Views Blog
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Five Years in Israel: What Does Aliyah Look Like?
August 11, 2011Ever think about aliyah, boys and girls? Wondering if it’s just like your Birthright trip but longer? If the answer to either of these questions is “yes”, I invite you to watch this video for a brief recap of what I learned in my first five years here. Yesterday was my five year “aliyahversary”, worthy [...]
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Jews are All Over the Oscars
February 9, 2011Yes, Israel may have been shut out from the nominations this year, but the Jews did not fare as poorly, to say the least. Last year’s Oscars were pretty Jewlicious, and Jews were even mentioned in the opening monologue: Here are some of this year’s Jewish Oscar contenders. Well, the major ones anyway: Natalie Portman [...]
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Makhoul Sentenced to 9 Years, Israeli Democracy Dies Yet Another Death
January 30, 2011Ameer Makhoul, Israeli-Palestinian community leader, was sentenced by an Israeli court to nine years in prison for allegedly spying for Hezbollah against Israel. The court also added an additional year to his sentence on conditional terms. This was essentially the sentence the prosecution had requested, with the defense asking for seven years. The court, as [...]
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Several Thoughts on the Arab Revolution
January 29, 20111) It’s not yet a revolution. It might become one, but one of the reasons I haven’t blogged much about this (apart from the snow-related loss of power) is that I have no idea which way this is going to go. I don’t believe the Mubarak regime is going to give up power as easily [...]
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How Far Could Iran Go to Meet the U.S.?
December 7, 2010An interview with the very smart Karim Sadjadpour: I think the individuals who are currently running Iran believe enmity toward the United States to be an inextricable part of the Islamic Republic’s identity and ideological narrative. This doesn’t mean that we shun dialogue with Iran, but we should have realistic expectations of what it will [...]
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The Saudis Are Neocons, And Other First Wikileaks Impressions
November 29, 20101. How does the United States Government store its secrets? In shoeboxes? 2. Quote of the year: “Ahmadinejad is Hitler.” This from Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed in July 2009. And then there is this very astute comment from the Crown Prince: “‘Any culture that is patient and focused enough to spend years [...]
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What about Pollard?
November 16, 2010Two weeks ago, Shas Party leader Eli Yishai sent a letter to Netanyahu asking for him to push for the release of convicted Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned in the United States for the last 25 years (part of a life imprisonment handed down to the former U.S. civilian intelligence analyst in 1987). Yishai wrote [...]
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Jewish Voters, Do Not Let President Obama and the Dems Take You for Granted
November 2, 2010With 78 percent of Jewish voters going for President Obama in the 2008 election despite his tendency to trivialize Jewish-Americans’ concerns about Israel’s security, is it any mystery that during the past two years, the U.S. President has repeatedly sought to de-legitimize Jewish communities in the West Bank, and even in [...]
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Fundamentalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 22, 2010Fundamentalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina probably deserves more attention as a sociological and political phenomenon, than it does in other European countries. It is a country with a very weak democratic and parliamentary tradition, until 15 years ago Bosnia suffered from extremely destructive war which in this case was more than just a civil war. [...]
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A child is dead: Charles Enderlin on the Al-Durrah incident, 10 years later
October 11, 2010Almost exactly 10 years ago, on the second day of the Second Intifada, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Durrah was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli and Palestinian forces in Gaza. Several other Palestinian children were killed by gunfire that day, and hundreds more in the months and years [...]
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Sifrei Torah, captive and mutilated
October 4, 2010This eBay item makes me want to cry. It’s advertising a “Torah Scroll 400 Years Old Approx 10.8 Feet Long” and you can see from the picture that something’s seriously, seriously wrong. People have been selling pieces of sifrei Torah on eBay for years. They get old sifrei Torah, hack them into pieces, and sell [...]
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YahrzeitWatch – 55 Year Afterwards
September 1, 201055 Years ago, on September 1, actor, director, early television star, and union leader, Philip Loeb, took a room at the Taft Hotel in Manhattan and ended his life. At that time, for the preceding 6 years, he had been blacklisted from working due to his political beliefs and activities. Philip Loeb starred as “Mr. [...]
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Mazal Tov to Daniel Sieradski and Ris Golden
August 22, 2010Over the years, this site’s relationship with Dan – also known as Mobius – has had ups and downs, sometimes extremely so. However, as with any long-standing relationship, many ties exist between individuals on Jewlicious and Dan, and also with writers or former writers of Jewschool, the site he founded many years ago. On August [...]