How Can Right, Left Each Be So Sure?
July 28, 2005
Some months ago, at a kind of evening salon in a settlement just south of Jerusalem, I read a short story I\’d written to a group of friends and acquaintances.
David Margolis
A Settler in Favor of Disengagement
July 1, 2004
Politically — for the first time in the history of the Jewish people — the State of Israel is apparently working toward establishing foreign sovereignty over a part of our land.
A Settler in Favor of Disengagement
June 24, 2004
This is a soul-wrenching time for all of us who love the Land of Israel.
From L.A. to Tel Aviv —
January 2, 2003
The scope and effect of projects in Israel funded by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles have always been broad. But the Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership, with its specialization in hands-on, people-to-people programming seeks to transcend mere philanthropy in order to change the attitudes of Jews in both cities and create a mutual stake in each other\’s Jewish life.
Eulogies: Dr. Robert W. Brooks
September 26, 2002
Dr. Robert W. Brooks, an interna-tionally renowned mathematician who made aliyah with his family from Los Angeles in 1995, died of a heart attack on Sept. 5, at the age of 49.
The Shared Initiative
September 26, 2002
Since I live beyond the Green Line and am therefore a war criminal in the view of much of the left, I was surprised to be invited to an all-day meeting at the Tantur Ecumenical Center in Jerusalem that brought together about 50 Jewish and Palestinian peace activists — organizational professionals and concerned laypeople, all of them wanting an end to conflict, many of them deeply discouraged now, of course. The aim of the discussion, the first of a proposed series sponsored by the Dutch Foreign ministry, was to create a grass-roots initiative that would, by taking \”shared responsibility\” for the current situation, somehow affect it.
Place of Balance
September 5, 2002
The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana ("Head of the Year" in Hebrew), is an occasion for celebration and feasting but also for introspection and reflection.
Married to Israel
August 8, 2002
Call it a shopping trip. Lou and Trudy Kestenbaum came to Israel last month on a Jewish National Fund (JNF) mission to spend money, as well as to follow up on how the money they\’ve already spent in the Jewish state is doing.
Students Prepare for War of Words organizations.
June 27, 2002
The long-term forecast predicts a very hot autumn on American college campuses, as Israel advocates challenge a well-organized, well-financed anti-Israel campaign by pro-Palestinian activists.
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