Of all the incendiary books that have been written about Israel over the last year or so, none is quite as fiery as \”Israel: The Will to Prevail\” by Danny Danon (Palgrave Macmillan: $26).
No book review I’ve written for The Jewish Journal has prompted as much feedback as the one I wrote about “A New Voice for Israel” by Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder of J Street. His argument that Israel must make uncomfortable compromises and take dire risks in order to secure peace with the Palestinian Arabs is clearly unsettling to a great many Jews, both in Israel and America.
“Israel’s existence is in fact threatened by a progressive, terminal illness,” Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of J Street, writes in “A New Voice for Israel: Fighting for the Survival of the Jewish Nation” (Palgrave Macmillan: $26). According to his diagnosis, the illness is a kind of willful blindness that prevents both Israeli and American leaders from seeing a way out of the dire predicament that the Jewish state now faces.
The overly creased and still tender face of Shimon Peres looks like he has always been crying; he seems to carry centuries of Jewish suffering upon his strong shoulders. Still, there is some flicker of hope in the old man’s eyes; a stubbornness and a determination that his life’s work will mean something.
Ariel Sharon was a figure of controversy throughout his long career in war, politics and diplomacy, but no one can deny that he looms large in the making of the Jewish state.
President Obama\’s vacation reading list includes the best-selling Israeli novel \”To the End of the Land\” by David Grossman.
When Intel’s Israeli division proposed a new strategy to vastly improve the processing speed of the company\’s laptop computer chips, Intel\’s U.S. management had no interest.\n\nThe idea required a fundamental change in Intel’s technological approach, which had been to build what were known as faster “clock speeds” — essentially, faster \”engines\” — to accelerate processing. Israel\’s division proposed to run the engine of the chip slower, but to gain even more power by configuring a system that used gears like a car.\n
Here we are, Jews in every corner of the world, awash in a frenzy of celebrations for Israel — all because of a birthday. And not just any birthday, mind you, but one that ends in a zero.
The scion of an aristocratic Jerusalem family, Nusseibeh traces his roots back 1,300 years to one of the tribal leaders who joined Mohammad on his seventh century pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Roughly 20 years ago, Sudan, whose western Darfur region has been engulfed in genocide for four years, watched another other tragedy unfold — the deaths of thousands of Ethiopian Jews trying to escape to Israel via Operation Moses.
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