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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.... Full
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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