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Stop the Kassam Attacks Without Collective Punishment
By Julia Chaitin, Ph.D. All forms of non-violent protest on our part to try and stop the kassam attacks are legitimate. However, actionns taken by residents of the region to prevent the people in Gaza from having access to needed supplies is both unjustified and immoral. ...Full Story
Four Questions for MK Colette Avital
By Newsletter Editor Member of Knesset Colette Avital shares her thoughts on Israel at 60, West Bank settlers and the peace process....Full Story
The Kibbutz has Returned
By Gavri Bargil In the mid-1980s, kibbutzim in Israel faced a severe financial crisis. This crisis afflicting the kibbutzim, primarily for political reasons, was added to the ideological crisis that had already started earlier but was suppressed until that moment. <...Full Story
Seek Peace and Pursue It
Politics Now
By Yigal Tzachor Israel’s Winograd Commission has been disbanded and so the conduct of the government during the Second Lebanon War is no longer on the agenda. The only current public debates are the one between Minister of Justice Daniel Friedman and President of I...Full Story
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Third Rail of American Politics
By Dan Fleshler An evenhanded American foreign policy that helped to end the occupation would be pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian and pro-American. American Jewish progressives must seize control of public rhetoric on Israel-Palestine, giving politicians rhetorical spac...Full Story
Middle East Triangle
By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley Nervous about being left out, all three parties--Israel, Fatah and Hamas--are laboring mightily to avert an understanding between the other two. But none of these two-way deals is likely to succeed. ...Full Story
Israel
Food Banking and Hunger in Israel
By Judith Gelman Es mine kint - just doesn't cut it any longer -Hunger in Israel while no longer ignored needs more than even the best of good wishes....
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Beta Israel: Orphans of Circumstance
By James Horrox Israel The Jewish HomelandFor Ethiopian Jewish immigrants is this "melting pot" the frying pan or the fire. ...
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100 Years of Settlement
By Yigal Tzachor In anticipation of the 60 year celebration of Israel’s independence, we decided to travel around the kibbutzim that encircle Israel. ...Full Story
The Challenge of Iran
The Case for Talking to Tehran
By Trita Parsi A signal from Israel that it supports American-Iranian talks would strengthen the hands of Tehran's pragmatists and compel Iran's cautious supreme leader to rein in his more aggressive and ambitious subordinates....Full Story
Democrats and Republicans Call on Bush to Launch 'Diplomatic Surge' with Iran Given New Intelligence on Iranian Nukes
By US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) Reid, Hagel, Lantos: Bush should launch 'direct, unconditional and comprehensive talks' with Iran....Full Story
Time to Talk to Iran
By Robert Kagan Leading neocon to Bush: Seize the initiatve and open direct talks with Iran....Full Story
America
The Economics of Oppression
By Avram Lyon Advertisments have appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper for men to work at a meat packing plant in Postville, IA. The only meat packing plant in Postville, is the Agriprocessor plant, the object of a raid by Immigrations and Customs Enforcemen...Full Story
Why The New Middle East Peace Lobby Has a Chance
By Dan Fleshler "Realistic Dove" blogger Dan Flshler explains why he is hopeful about the new J Street project ...Full Story
Paying Living Wage - One Synagogue's Experience
By Judith Gelman The Conservative movement is roiled in another controversy. This time it isn’t whether women count in a minyan or whether gays can be rabbis but whether halachically observant Jews are required to pay their employees a “living wage.”...Full Story
Campus
& Youth Update
Cross-Cultural Environmental Studies in Israel
By Rabbi Michael Cohen If you are looking for a different kind of study abroad experience that combines environmental studies, a cross-culture experience, the Middle East, kibbutz and desert living then the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is the program for you. ...Full Story
Rebuilding Israel’s Utopia
By James Horrox Fifty years after Martin Buber joyfully dubbed the kibbutz “an experiment that did not fail,” many observers of Israeli politics argue that it most certainly did. ...Full Story
Jewish Camping, Habonim Dror Style
By Shelly Goldwater Eagerly anticipating my ninth summer as executive director of Habonim-Dror Camp Tavor, I like to take a step back look at the big picture. And the big picture is: I’m more and more convinced of the crucial importance of what Jewish camps offer....Full Story
Jewish
Identity
Peoplehood and Return
By Rabbi David Gedzelman The intensity of an immersion experience, whether it be Birthright Israel, summer camp, a service trip, or a retreat, is difficult to maintain or replicate in any kind of follow-up or continuing programming. ...Full Story
Aharon David Gordon on Ecology and Love of Eretz Yisrael
By Rabbi Dr. Einat Ramon One of the modern Jewish thinkers whose philosophy may shed light on the connection between People and Land in the wake of Zionism, for us who live in Israel, is Aharon David Gordon, a founder of the Labor Movement and a giant of the Second Aliya (18...Full Story
Joy and Jeopardy
By Sharon Brous Our tradition teaches that we remain enslaved as long as slavery and affliction persist in our world....Full Story
Book Talk
Wake Up and Smell the Planet
What Do We Do Now? An Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" and a Nobel Prize are testament to Al Gore's achievements in increasing our knowledge about the threat of human-driven climate change. But most viewers did not notice the bits of advice flashing across the screen as the lights came on and the movie's closing credits were rolling. Rather, they were more likely to have looked at one another and asked "What do we do now?" Daniel Orenstein a friend of Ameinu reviews three self-help books that promise to help us make the transition to a cleaner, greener lifestyle. Full Review
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