by Adam | Friday 29 July 2011
Extraordinarily honored to have an op-ed running in Haaretz today. It's currently trending on the front page. Check it out! For the many whose priorities have shifted away from Israel, now is the time to focus on specific issues. The...
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by Adam | Wednesday 6 July 2011
Friends, Here is a new little work of mine on the ol' (err...new) Huffington Post. Check it out. It's true, there is no universal American equivalent to the Israeli rite of passage of compulsory army service. It is also true...
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by Adam | Tuesday 28 June 2011
Without the self-congratulatory flourishes of most, Fania Oz-Salzberger writes in Haaretz about Jewish nationalism as model for other national movements and dispels some characterizations of Jewish nationalism that are, well, insulting to everybody. (h/t to newly-married TFR spiritual curator Michael)...
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by Adam | Thursday 7 April 2011
I'm off to Austin this weekend but before I left, I thought I'd share my latest blatherings on the Huffington Post. This week it's about Richard Goldstone: I know Israel acts very improperly sometimes, their extending presence in the West...
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by Adam | Thursday 10 February 2011
Gadi Taub, another TFR hero and former interviewee on HuffPo, is always one step ahead. He writes today on The New Republic site: So perhaps we should commend these pioneers of the right for something else entirely: for exposing the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 11 January 2011
Goldberg on his Atlantic blog continues to make the case that it is in Israel's best interest to not jam themselves too deeply into East Jerusalem. Peace will not come without the birth of a Palestinian state on the West...
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by Adam | Tuesday 20 July 2010
Coincidences like this happen. Not realizing the saddest of all sad days on the Jewish calendar --a feat like beating Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and Italy in the same World Cup-- is upon you the same day you visit...
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by Adam | Monday 19 April 2010
Elie Wiesel (you may have heard of him) has cast his lot with a cadre of beautifully delusion people who dance beneath the troubling banner of Jerusalem's indivisibility. He makes a salient point about the need for small steps, but...
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by Adam | Monday 22 March 2010
“I grew up a Jew in New York City,” Najla Saïd declares early in her autobiographical one-woman play “Palestine.” Saïd describes herself as a Semitic-looking girl who was raised on the Upper West Side in a politically left-leaning apartment...
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by Adam | Tuesday 19 January 2010
Peggy Shapiro writes a little bit about the impressive Israeli response to the agony and disaster in Haiti. She may be a little too anxious to point out the flimsy responses by other parties to the emergency, but for a...
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by Adam | Tuesday 3 February 2009
During a troubling bout with demogoguery last January as a trip leader on the Birthright Israel program, I had the strange pleasure of pairing with an Israeli counterpart who happened to be brilliant, insane, and brainwashed toward the Zionist...
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by Adam | Sunday 20 January 2008
Day Two: Jetlag Above the Kinneret, 6:44 A.M. I was stranded like a vessel on the water; I put faith in nature and set myself adrift, isn't that how all epics begin: a tide of repose and resignation, a tide...
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by Adam | Monday 11 June 2007
The (famous, remarkable, inspiring) picture on the left was taken on June 7, 1967, shortly after the Israeli army won Jerusalem's Old City back from the Jordanians during the Six-Day War. This picture captures three soldiers beside the Western...
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