Thursday, July 17, 2008
Bodies in Exchange for Terrorists
I just received this email from an Israeli friend of mine. He is so eloquent, I'll let his words speak for me; The past two days will always count as some of the most difficult days of my life. I don’t remember ever sitting so many hours in front of the TV screen as I have yesterday and today. The thoughts, emotions and feelings are intense, complex and even contradictory. Almost exactly two years after the start of the Second Lebanon War, watching the circle close brought back memories of those...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
There are Facts and then there are Facts
If someone offers the following statement - history will treat the formation of the state of Israel over objections by the Arab League, the Arab Higher Committee and the regional Arabic communities and nations as the greatest blunder in recent world history - as a dispassionate "fact," my Debate Team hackels are aroused. (I actually wasn't on my University of Mass. debate team, however, I wanted to be, just so I could wear the UMassDebaters t-shirt). At any rate, a statement about something that...
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Blaming the Jews
DINGLE, Ireland -- Once there was a neighborhood near the Brookline-Boston line known as Little Kerry because so many of the residents hailed from this lush, rustic county in the southwest of Ireland. Today, here on Kerry's Dingle peninsula, there is a concentration of so many families who once lived in Massachusetts that the locals call it Little Boston. A 19th-century famine made the Irish the world's most storied nomads, creating a diaspora numbering 70 million. But now Ireland's sudden...
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J.K. Rowling's Harvard Commencement Speech
Rowling is not Jewish, but the message she conveys in this speech, beseeching us to engage in this world to better mankind, is a very Jewish mandate..... One of my favorite quotes from it - rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. Read the rest here.... http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html
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Monday, July 14, 2008
"Selfish Zionists?"
It’s never been my intention to try to convert readers to my religious beliefs or disrespect any other. I also don’t expect to change anyone else’s way of thinking, so I’m not sure why so many bloggers on this site, from Fundamentalist Christians to Fervent Atheists, expect readers to suddenly see “the light” – which is really their light – as each of us has our own. My Judaism outlines the way I conduct my life. It fulfils my needs and satisfies my soul. It comforts me in grief and provides me...
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