Amit Shalom sacrificed by the State of Israel
Israel/Palestine
An Israeli Coalition Government Which Betrays Judaism
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Gantz joins Netanyahu and plans to annex the West Bank and prevent jail for Netanyahu.
Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine Debate Erupts in a Southern City
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Mark I. Pinsky discovers how a Middle East controversy blindsided a popular Southern Jewish mayor.
Israel/Palestine
Why Jews should oppose the Trump/Bibi “Peace Plan”
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Sarah Levinthal Shartal argues that Jews should oppose the Trump/Netanyahu “peace plan”.
Israel/Palestine
Trump’s Phony Israel Peace Plan
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Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, reflects on Trump’s phony Israel peace plan. And an invitation to hear Rabbi Lerner speak about his new book, Revolutionary Love, in various cities from now through April.
Ecological Transformation
Choosing Life by Rosh Hashanah 5790
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David Seidenberg argues that the biggest existential threat to Israel isn’t Iran or human rights—it’s climate change.
Politics & Society
Raising Racism and Ethnocentrism in Israel and the United States
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Edward Kaufman warns of the dangers of Trump and Netanyahu’s manipulation of fear in the service of maintaining power for their “threatened” identity groups.
Israel/Palestine
Tlaib/Omar: It’s only politics
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Paul Scham calls the recent Tlaib/Omar debacle “a tawdry political drama” serving the political interests and goals of Trump and Netanyahu.
Israel/Palestine
Religio Fascism
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Rabbi Jeremy Rosen warns of the dangers posed by Yitzchak Ginsburgh who, according to Rosen, “has done untold damage to traditional Judaism and Israel’s case abroad.”
Israel/Palestine
Dispatches from the Jerusalem Film Festival: “Chained”
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Olga Gershenson reviews “Chained,” a film by Yaron Shani that blurs the line between fiction and real life.
Politics & Society
Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry
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Jim Sleeper warns of the danger American Jews will face “if their support for Israel remains as compromised as that of Zionist deal-makers, both Christian and Jewish.”
Israel/Palestine
The demolitions in Wadi al-Humos
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B’Tselem draws attention to human rights violations of Palestinians in Israel, namely a recent Supreme Court ruling giving Israel legal authorization to demolish Palestinian homes.
Israel/Palestine
Can Zionism Be Redeemed?
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Yehezkel Landau argues that “Jews, as human beings, deserve both security and spiritual liberation. So do Palestinians.”
Selling Israel Biblically
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M. Reza Behnam traces the history of Christian Zionism in the United States and cites its importance in the formation of America’s Israel-first policy.
Israel/Palestine
The Israeli Election in September
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Rabbi Michael Lerner analyzes the current political situation in—and insists on the possibility of a different kind of—Israel.