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Videos

2009 End of Year Message

Kenneth Bob, Ameinu National President, delivers a personal message.
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Current Issues

Kicking the Fund

By Nahum Barnea, Yediot Ahronot

Should the Israeli Knesset establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry to investigate the New Israel Fund's actions? Nahum Barnea, one of Israel's leading political correspondents, explores the issue....
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Four Questions for New Member of Knesset Einat Wilf

By Einat Wilf

We asked new MK Einat Wilf to share her thoughts with us on her hopes and priorities, the pending peace process, the future of the Labor Party, and the current state of the Israel-Diaspora relationship....
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The Road Less Traveled

By Liel Leibovitz

Discussing the effectiveness and logic of road blocks in the West Bank....
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Seek Peace and Pursue It

Four Questions with MK Ophir Pines-Paz About the UN Summit

By Ophir Pines-Paz and Ameinu

We asked “friend of Ameinu” MK Ophir Pines-Paz to share his thoughts with us on the meeting last week between the U.S. President, Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian Authority President in New York. Pines-Paz is a former government minister and ...
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Remembering Amos Kenan

By David Twersky

David Twersky offers a loving obituary of a pioneering progressive thinker a Zionist and a friend who helped many straddle the perceived gulf between Israel and the Left.
This article first appeared in the JTA. ...
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A Letter to all Good People

By Amos Kenan

This piece by Amos Kenan originally appeared in the Israel daily newspaper Yediot Achronot shortly after the Six-Day Way and was widely circulated among American Jewish students in North America looking for an answer to the anti-Israel New Left. Plea...
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Israel

Ten Days on the West Bank: A New Year’s Hope for Peace

By Jack Nusan Porter, Ph.D.

Jack Nusan Porter discusses his experiences from his recent trip to the West Bank....
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A Letter to the American Jewish Community, from Israeli Civil Society Organizations and Individuals:

By An initiative of the Israeli Peace NGO Forum

A long list of committed and influential Israelis working for peace have written a letter to you.
To read the letter and see what they have to say, and more importantly what they need you to do, click here.
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An Experiment That, for a Time, Did Not Fail

By Leonard Fein

In this article first published in the Forward, Leonard Fein, an honoree of the upcoming Ameinu Gala, looks back at 100 years of the uniquely Israeli experiment called Kibbutz....
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America

Making the Diaspora Bloom

By Toni Hellman

This article reprinted from New Voices – the National Jewish Student Magazine www.newvoices.org examines how Jews are energizing environmentalism outside of Israel. It looks at a Kibbutz in Seattle as well as Hazon and our own Habonim Dror Camping a...
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What Iran and A KOSHER MEAT COMPANY have in common

By Avram Lyon

Freedom to choose is a right that is under attack not only in Iran but here on our own shores as well. How proud we are of the brave Iranians standing up for their rights - how poorly we protecdt those that do it here....
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“Tough love” for Israel will be tough on the pro-Israel peace camp

By Dan Fleshler

If push comes to shove between Washtington and Jerusalem, can pro-Israel pro-peace movements support bold US diplomatic efforts to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict without being branded as traitors. ...
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Campus & Youth Update

Upon receiving the Ameinu Dreamers and Builders Award 2009

By Rabbi Esther Lederman

Rabbi Esther Lederman was one of three awardees of the Ameinu Dreamers and Builders Award in 2009. Presented here are the heart-warming and inspiring words she presented as she accepted the award....
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Loyalty & Principles

By Mira Sucharov

As Israel Apartheid week unfurls across the globe, Mira Sucharov explores the tug-of-war between loyalty and principles....
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Of Two Minds: Gaza gives One American and Israeli Citizen Pause

By Timna Axel

An American/Israeli at Northwestern University -shares her thoughts and her concerns, about the recent Gaza military operation in specific and the role of American Jews when it comes to loving criticism of Israel in general....
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Jewish Identity

Responding to Another Rabbi's Hateful Speech

By Rabbi Amy Eiberg

Rabbi Eiberg explains that words have power - and sometimes just deleting them isn't the answer.
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Useful Zionists

By Jeffry V. Mallow, Phd.

"Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

Chico Marx in "Duck Soup"

... Helping to clarify between rhetoric and truths when it comes to "loving criticism"...
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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. ...
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Book Talk

Zionism / What are we doing here?

By Daniel Orenstein

Daniel Orenstein reviews two new books which explore Israel and its pull on those who choose to call it home - some succesfully others less so Full Review