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July 13, 2007
Bush’s ‘neocons’: far from the best and the brightest
Today\’s neocons are far from the best and the brightest. They are largely amateur armchair warriors given to cheap rhetoric and bombast. They toss around \”regime change\” as if governments will fall when they snap their fingers.
Hamas’ Gaza takeover spurs new thinking on ‘two-state solution’
The problem is simple: With Hamas in control in Gaza and the rival Fatah ruling the West Bank, how can a unified Palestinian state be established in the West Bank and Gaza?
Another reporter freed? Nothing new under the Palestinian sun
Targeting journalists has long been a common practice in the Arab Middle East.
Berries, Pizza and a Smile
From October 2003 to February 2004, workers at those three supermarket chains went out on strike to ensure affordable health care, as well as to protect their pensions and job security. It was the longest strike in the history of the supermarket industry, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers\’ Web site, and the first major strike of the 21st century.
The wrong Zionist response to refugees
If Israel goes ahead and sends 1,000 southern Sudanese refugees back to live under the Pharaoh, after what they went through in Sudan, then once and for all we Jews ought to get off our high horse about how \”the world stood silent\” when we needed help.
Laughing for Unity
A friend sent me an e-mail telling me I \”can\’t miss\” this Jerusalem rabbi\’s one-man show Sunday night at Beth Jacob Congregation. I opened the e-mail a few minutes before show time, so, on a whim, I ran over to catch \”The Four Faces of Israel,\” starring Rabbi Benji Levene. After two hours of Benji, my head was spinning.
Books: Reimagining the future of the Jewish People
\”Now, once again, a group of gifted scholars gather to reinterpret the Jewish project, to reassert its meaning, re-envision its institutions and reimagine its future,\” asserts the introduction of the new book: \”Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibility, the Presence of God and the Future of the Covenant,\” edited by Valley Beth Shalom\’s (VBS) Rabbi Edward Feinstein (Jewish Lights Publishing, $24.99).
Brotherly Advice
In the last year, my younger brother has been asking for and taking my dating advice on an almost daily basis. It\’s a fact that continues to astound me. This isn\’t to say I don\’t have anything worthwhile to say on the topic, despite the fact that I\’m married now and raising two kids. It\’s more that I\’ve simply never had this kind of relationship with him before.
Hooker to the stars is a saucy satirist
American Israeli writer-actress Iris Bahr says she is fascinated with Russian culture and created Maksimovsrskaya (whose name grows weekly as an inside joke) over the years on stage, on screen and on air. At the invitation of KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour, Bahr has developed her into a regular radio character for \”Social Studies,\” a four-minute rapid-fire satire segment that runs locally on KCRW during NPR\’s \”All Things Considered.\”
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