Sheri Oz: When a Judge Says She Was Raped
From the article: Allegations of rape seem to bring out all the arm-chair “experts” who talk as if they know the truth about what “really” happened and are not meek about sharing their “expertise”...
Israel Diaries Blog
Healing from Collective Trauma – Identifying The Real Nakba
When the dust settles and a recently invented Palestinian people will have their own state (or not – but we will assume for the moment that such a state will arise), how will they...
“Chosen” People? Tolerated, Perhaps. (Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32: 19-28)
Ha’azinu has put the term, “Chosen People” into a new perspective for me. And I can’t say that I like it. In my previous post, I wrote about the power of choice and the...
Power of choice (Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32: 19-28)
After having escaped from Egypt, we Jews faced a number of critical points at which our collective decisionmaking skills were challenged. Perhaps the most dramatic example was at Mount Sinai when the persistence of...
Bellerose: Indigenous Rights – Learning the Basics
From Ryan Bellerose’s article: If conquerors can become indigenous, then the white Europeans who came to my indigenous lands in North America could now claim to be indigenous. The white Europeans who went to...
Former Refugees Have a Dream: A Kibbutz in South Sudan
Three former refugees who sheltered in Israel returned home with mixed feelings, gratitude, new knowhow – and drive to transform not only their own lives, but their fledgling country. This article was originally...
Abu Zeid – My Very Favourite Fish Restaurant in Haifa
Of the four fish restaurants in Bat Galim, a small insular neighbourhood along the Mediterranean, there is only one to which I now take visitors and guests: Abu Zeid Restaurant. Here is why: The...
Joseph’s Brothers Prostrated Themselves – Are We? (Bereshit 42:1-7)
I grew up believing that Jews bow down only to the One God, our Creator, and never to another human being. The Purim story tells us that Mordechai refused to bow to Haman, an...
