Most of us remember our parents telling us when we were children that when they were our age they had to walk two miles, every day, in the snow, uphill, both ways, to go to school. In ancient times we can imagine our ancestors telling their children that when they were their age they were slaves to Pharaoh.
Who says that Israelis and Palestinians can\’t work together? On New Year\’s Day, a group of Israelis and Palestinians embarked on a 35-day expedition to Antarctica that culminated in the scaling and naming of an unexplored mountain.
The group, Breaking the Ice, was honored this month for diplomacy through sport by Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conflict resolution.
Namotu is a little speck of an atoll barely three acres in area, about the size of a typical shopping center. It\’s part of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, and it\’s where my group of surfing lawyers decided to spend our annual legal seminar/surf trip last year.
\”Everyone wanted to clone our mother, which is why we created our Dancing Matzahman, said Davida Lampkin-Tydings. Actually, the singing, swaying doll — voted best new Passover item at the 2003 Kosherfest — looks like a male chef wearing matzah print. But press his foot, and the plush figure raps in the voice of Lampkin-Tydings\’ mother, Pauline S. Lampkin, whose photo is on the tag.
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Throughout much of the Arab world and Europe, three and a half years of intensive Israeli-Palestinian violence has deepened anti-Israeli and even anti-Semitic sentiment among populations, recent polls have shown. But in Tunisia, home to one of the last significant Jewish populations in the Arab world, Jews there say their lives have continued peacefully.
With the Gaza disengagement plan picking up momentum and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon getting set to pitch the proposal to the Bush administration at Camp David next week, right-wing Jewish groups are counterattacking, hoping to forestall U.S. support for the plan. Their partners in this fight: Christian Zionists.
A Jewish prisoner in San Quentin is demanding that California reclassify him from \”white\” to \”non-white,\” giving a curious twist to America\’s long-shifting attitudes toward Jewish ethnicity and race.
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