Israeli in the US – American in Israel
Describing – and showing – the experience of visiting a home away from home
View ArticleNo penalties for hate crimes in Malmo, despite record attacks
Rising anti-Semitism in widely criticized Swedish city leads to zero indictments
View ArticleWhat HAVE you been smoking?
Standing by a warning that Israel is headed towards being ‘not Jewish, not democratic’
View ArticleAbbas intimates that Israel wants to kill him
PA head, in interview, also suggests Israel killed Arafat, says Zionism had links to Nazism before WWII; Israeli source dismisses accusations
View ArticleAhmadinejad urges Muslim world to unite to destroy Zionism
Iranian president calls for action against those who ‘are occupying and killing oppressed people’
View ArticleEat, Pray, Live
Reflecting on death, burial and eternity — those were some wild mushrooms
View ArticleGreek party condemns Holocaust Remembrance Day
In a separate incident, Golden Dawn politicians denounce ‘Judaic barbarity’ and express support for Bashar Assad
View ArticleErdogan calls Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’
Turkish PM slammed for juxtaposing Jewish self-determination with anti-Semitism, Islamophobia; UN chief called out for remaining silent
View ArticleNetanyahu blasts Erdogan for ‘dark and slanderous’ remarks on Zionism
The Turkish prime minister on Wednesday described Zionism as a ‘crime against humanity’ on par with anti-Semitism and fascism
View ArticleKerry to bring Erdogan to task for ‘offensive’ remark
As US secretary heads to Ankara, official says Turkish premier’s branding of Zionism as ‘crime against humanity’ has a ‘corrosive’ effect on US-Turkey ties
View ArticleKerry upbraids Turks over Erdogan’s Zionism slur
In Ankara, US secretary slams Turkish PM’s branding of Zionism as ‘crime against humanity’; ‘Israel needs to change its attitude,’ Davutoglu retorts
View ArticleSwedish mayor challenged on anti-Semitism meeting
Newspaper says Malmo official distorted truth when he claimed to have initiated conversation with US envoy
View ArticleUS judge rejects request to exclude Jews from jury
Only a refusal to obey court’s instructions can be a reason for dismissal, justice rules
View ArticleIrish Jews face uncertain future (as usual)
A community that produced a beloved Israeli president confronts dwindling numbers, but also a rich and largely peaceful history
View ArticleTurkish PM says Zionism comments misinterpreted
Erdogan claims February comments were not anti-Semitic but rather a criticism of Israel’s policies
View Article‘Five Broken Cameras’ and a punch in the stomach
On a mission in America to keep her Israeli children from being xenophobic, racist, nationalistic and macho
View ArticleBrazilian bestseller probes fate of Jewish ‘disappeared’
In his latest novel — newly available in English — Bernardo Kucinski fictionalizes the aftermath of his sister’s real-life death
View ArticleNo regrets: A former Israeli celebrates
When I gave up on living in Israel did I forfeit my right to celebrate the realization of Herzl’s dream?
View ArticleIndependent amid the rubble: a Yom Ha’atzmaut meditation
Early Zionists saw the Bible as a sort of ‘birth certificate’ — a right to the land that was never terminated. It’s a narrative that echoes even for a shrimp-eating Jew from Mississippi growing roots here
View ArticleHow an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce...
The national anthem only actually became the national anthem nine years ago, and that’s just one of the twists in the ‘loathsome’ hymn’s ongoing quest for harmonious acceptance
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