Amos Oz

Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

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Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miral, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Mona Eltahawy, Steve Buscemi, Amos Oz, Zac Posen, Laurie Anderson, Sean Penn, Yonatan Schapira, Freida Pintos, Rula Jebreal, Alexander Siddiq, Dan Rathe, Willem Dafoe, David Grossman, Yehuda Amichai, Julian Schnabel, Haim Abbass, Candice Bergen, Lou Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Schnabel's film does not instigate a new critique. Rather, continues a discourse in Israel with intellectuals and writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz, and Yehuda Amichai.

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Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Suicide Bombers, Boycott, Daniel Barenboïm, Gaza, West Bank, The Lancet, Pakistan, Noah Efron, Bar-Ilan-University, Theater, West Bank Settlers, Idf, NIH Library of Medicine, Tikkun Olam, Cluster Bombs, Templeton-Cambridge-Journalism-Fellowships, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, Operation Cast Lead, West Bank Settlements, Saudi Arabia, Global-Health-Diplomacy, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Afghanistan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amos Oz, Israel, Gilad Shalit, Ariel, Richard Horowitz ESQ, Anti-Semitism, Middle East, David Brooks, Tel Aviv, University of Johannesburg, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Boycotts focus on arresting the most valuable yet vulnerable freedoms: freedom of thought. Like a cluster bomb, boycotts are not particularly surgical in its strike, instead reeking extensive collateral damage.

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Soldiering Against Suicide

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Amos Oz, Suicide, Soldiers, Hamlet, Peter Whybrow, Edwin Shneidman, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Robert David Jaffee

According to a recent AP story, 245 soldiers took their lives in 2009, an increase of nearly 20 percent from 2008 when 197 soldiers died at their own hand.

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Israel's Bunker Mentality

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Gaza Flotilla Raid, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel American Foreign Policy, Gaza Flotilla, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amos Oz, Bernard Henri Levy, Israel, World News
Carlo Strenger

There are two profound psychological blocks that do not allow Israel's leadership to get off its disastrous course, once again proven by the Flotilla Disaster: one is sheer fear, the other is self-righteousness.

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The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Media Watch, Islam, Senate Appropriations Committee, Itamar Marcus, Radicalization, Terrorism, Childrens-Rights-Institute, Amos Oz, Islamic Extremists, Sucide Bomber, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, Brooke Goldstein, Counterterrorism, Martyr, Farfour, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Israel, Richard Horowitz ESQ, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

I was humbled. Itamar's draining, devastating work was ultimately about an Israeli Jew who cared deeply about Muslim children, a lone green shoot of hope sprouting forth from lakes of blood.

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Nobel Prize in Literature Announced Tomorrow: Oz And Oates Are Favorites

AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...

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Israel's Voice of Reason? An Exclusive Interview With Amos Oz

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mideast Peace Process, Amos Oz, Mideast, Israel, Mideast Peace, World News
Johann Hari

The unlikely story of the state of Israel is intertwined with the unlikely story of Amos Oz. He is, all at once, its most distinguished novelist, its most passionate defender, and its most notorious "traitor."

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