What Is The Future Of Zionism In LA?
I expected one of the benefits of moving to LA would mean that Israel’s birthday would be huge. I mean street party huge: lamp poles decked out with Israeli flags, al ha aish…
I Don’t Understand Zionism; Musings from the GA
Guest Post by Shaun Bernstein, Do The Write Thing participant at 2010 New Orleans General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America In April, I’ll be finishing up my journalism program in…
Beyond Advocacy on Hartman Blog
Thoughtful piece on how to direct our energies on Israel. Engaging Israel: Beyond Advocacy By Donniel Hartman(09/03/2010) Since Operation Cast Lead and the subsequent Goldstone Report, there has been an increasing sense that…
Netanyahu’s Surprisingly Brilliant Speech at the Herzliya Conference
We are surprised! Last Wednesday night, delivering the keynote address at the Herzliya Conference, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, gave a surprisingly brilliant speech. He spoke of security, saying that Israel “must continue and strengthen its…
Shlomo Sand Ridiculed by Historian Simon Schama
Some of you may recall our celebration of French journalistic standards which permitted “The Invention of the Jewish People,” a sad, ideologically bent book by Shlomo Sand to win the Aujourd’hui Award, “given…
Open Letter to Dr. Glen W. Thomas
Dear California Secretary of Education Thomas, The “UC Intifada” at UCI – is raging and Chancellor Drake and the University seem unable or unwilling to act in an effective way to protect the…
The Zionist Left
If I’ve tired of discussing Israel, it’s because I can’t seem to write a post I haven’t already written. When I saw Leonard Fein’s excellent
Worst. Genocide. Ever.
I was reading about the selection of Israel as guest of honor at this spring’s International Book Fair in Turin and how that got all the usual suspects pissed off, when I chanced…
The “Orthodox Anarchist” who couldn’t shoot straight
The other day Ariel Beery from Blogs of Zion posted an article which served as a good preface for his op-ed in the Jerusalem Post where he critically observes the habit among many…
