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Let's Have An Honest Debate: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Israel, Judaism, Zionism, Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine, David Ben Gurion, Israeli Politics, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News
Mitchell Cohen

Hard though it may be, I think it is better to struggle constantly between particularism and universalism -- to struggle between the demands of actual, complex situations and circumstances and the horizons or principles that let us project better ones.

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The Path to Palestinian Statehood

Steve Sheffey | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, David Ben Gurion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Israel Palestine Talks, Israel-Palestine, Palestine Israel, World News
Steve Sheffey

Nothing would do more to undercut the credibility of those who oppose a two-state solution than for the Palestinian Authority to enter into unconditional negotiations with Israel.

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Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Shephard, Holocaust, David Ben-Gurion, Frederick Morgan, Israel, World War II, Displaced Persons, Josef Rosensaft, Bergen-Belsen, Books News
Menachem Rosensaft

The Long Road Home should be required reading for anyone who seeks to obtain an insight into the capacity of ordinary individuals to confront and, for the most part, overcome the consequences of persecution and dire devastation.

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Jews, Israel And Free Speech: A Response To Rabbi Wolpe

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ethnic Cleansing, Bds Movement, Free Speech, David Ben Gurion, Zionism, Israel Debate, Rabbi David Wolpe, Civil Discourse, History of Israel, Religion News
David Moshman

Rabbi David Wolpe has provided guidance to readers as to which Jews should be permitted to participate in public discourse and education about Israel and which should not.

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The Proceduralist: A Brief History of Israeli Constitutionalism

Yoav Sivan | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Knesset, Shelli Yechimovich, David Ben Gurion, Ehud Barak, Zionism, U.S. Constitution, Israel, Constitution, Kenneth Arrow, Chaim Weizmann, World News
Yoav Sivan

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting Israeli Government, you are called upon to reflect on the 62nd anniversary of the ...

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Provisional Loyalty to a Provisional State

Yoav Sivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ehud Barak, David Ben Gurion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Loyalty Oath, Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, Jewish, World News
Yoav Sivan

To become Israeli, you are required to participate in the endless debate that has vexed our people since as far back as Herzl's diaries: Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

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Ruth Gruber, Journalism Pioneer, Finally Gets Credit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ahead of Time, Ruth Gruber Interview, Golda Meir, Harry Truman, Natasha Richardson, David Ben-Gurion, New York Herald Tribune, Overseas Press Club, Haven, Exodus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Called Ahead of Time, the film by director Bob Richman follows Gruber's remarkable career as a pioneering journalist and writer from the 1920s onward.

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The Collapse of Israel's 'Periphery Doctrine': Popping Pipe(s) Turkey Dreams

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Maronites, Baghdad Pact, Daniel Pipes, Iran, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Haile Selassie, David Ben Gurion, Israel, Neoconservatives, Turkey Israel Relations, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The so-called Periphery Doctrine of forming alliance with non-Arab states in the periphery of the Middle East, with which Israel had not direct conflict, has been tossed into the dustbin of history.

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Falling For Feldenkrais: A Patient's Progress

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Google, Yoga, Moshe Feldenkrais, Surgery, Hypnosis, Stacy Barrows, Mindfulness Meditation, Sandra Blakeslee, Rolfing, Pilates, Sergey Brin, Acupressure, Acupuncture, Matthew Blakeslee, New Age, David Ben Gurion, Laser, Physical Therapy, Medication, Feldenkrais, Cortisone, Mabel Todd, Kano Jigoro, Gustav Flechner, The Feldenkrais Institute, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

What I'm after isn't flexible bodies, but flexible brains -- Moshe Feldenkrais For an obsessive swimmer who craves the endorphins, the past two years...

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By George, I Think the Palestinians Have Got It!

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Le Monde, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, David Ben Gurion, Ziad Abu Zayyaad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Abu Mazen, Palestinians, World News
Ami Kaufman

This is a new kind of language coming out of the West Bank, and this new attitude and leadership from the Palestinian side is already bearing fruit on the diplomatic front.

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Will Iran Come Out Of The Nuclear Closet?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War With Iran, Admiral Mike Mullen, Jamal Dajani, David-Ben-Gurion, Iran, Amos Yadlin, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Arabs, Robert Gates, Middle East, Iaea, Iraq-Iran War, Iraq, Israel, Israel Nuclear Weapons, World News
Jamal Dajani

If the Israeli nuclear program grew out of fear of its neighbors and the conviction that the Holocaust justified any measures Israel took to ensure its survival, from where does Iran's justification come?

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Sixty Years After the 1948 War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, David Ben-Gurion, Israel 60th Anniversary, Israel, Politics News
Sandy Tolan

Sixty years after the 1948 war, we are intimate with the tragic history of one side, while the traumatic roots of the other remain largely obscured.

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