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david myers
Letters to the editor: BDS and David Myers, Israel’s future, Ben Carson and guns
Jewish Journal
October 21, 2015
David Myers’ article acknowledges a number of important points about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, but misses the big picture.
Moving and Shaking: Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, David Myers and Richard Sandler
Ryan Torok
May 21, 2015
A red carpet ceremony and a screening of “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” kicked off the 10th annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) on April 30 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Maintaining Jewish faith: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s collected essays
Jewish Journal
August 11, 2014
He was for many decades the dashing Jewish prince of new historians who came of age shortly after the Holocaust already heartsick and shell shocked from what had just happened.
Letters to the editor: The Gaza conflict and cycles of war
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2014
I have always enjoyed reading David Suissa’s columns, but this last one … it really touched me as a Jew and as a human being (“Gaza War: Taking Sides,” July 25). You wrote words out of my mouth — just better than I would have.
Judea Pearl: Boycott Israel? Not on my campus
Judea Pearl
January 3, 2014
There are many good reasons to oppose the American Studies Association (ASA) decision to boycott Israeli universities. But there are some bad reasons as well. Many arguments against the boycott play exactly into the hands of the pro-boycott propagandists and give them the ammunition they need to continue their racist campaign with renewed vigor and self-righteousness.
Avoid zero-sum thinking
David A. Lehrer
September 28, 2011
The journalist Robert Wright argues in his book “Nonzero” that communication, cooperation and trust increase the likelihood that humans can avoid that favored term of game theorists: the zero-sum game. Whereas greater complexity and nuance allow us to avoid the zero-sum trap, the more simplistic and insular we are, the more likely we are to fall into it.
Where hope is to be found
Jewish Journal
August 3, 2011
Recent events have cast a dark pall over Israel. The total collapse of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has led the latter to pursue the course of unilateral action, as reflected in the drive for United Nations affirmation of Palestinian statehood in September. Meanwhile, a wave of parliamentary activity, instigated by Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party, threatens to undermine key foundations of Israel’s democratic tradition by seeking to stifle dissent and free expression.
Not your grandfather’s shtibl
David Suissa
June 28, 2007
As we walked back from shul on a recent Shabbat, my friend and neighbor David Myers asked me if I was \”comfortable\” with the service we had just attended.
Open Debate Preferable to Blind Support
David N. Myers
July 17, 2003
A recent report in The New York Times captured almost perfectly the thorny questions that stand at the center of relations between the American Jewish community and Israel. Should one be permitted to criticize the government of a foreign country with which one feels a deep affinity, or is it a moral and political imperative to support the policies of that government, right or wrong?
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