Israel Archives

23 Jan

Culture

A Case of Arab Democracy

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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Our January/February issue features the fourth in our series on Israel's Arab citizens: this one focuses on the pursuit of Arab-Israelis for equal rights in...

17 Jan

Culture

Jerusalem Syndrome

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Sala Levin Matt Gross went to Jerusalem, and all he got was this lousy set of tefillin. This, more or less, was the takeaway from Gross's...

09 Jan

Culture, topics

Beit Shemesh Rhapsody

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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Does Freddie Mercury have the power to heal religious and sociopolitical tensions? A group of 250 women and girls in Beit Shemesh tested the premise...

06 Jan

Culture, History

How Do You Say "Middle-earth" in Hebrew?

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...

06 Jan

Culture, History

How Do You Say “Middle-earth” in Hebrew?

January 6, 2012
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Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...

04 Jan

Culture, History, Religion, topics

Israel Still Has the Power to Change

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Scott Fox The beginning of 2012 means the nearing of elections in Israel and the United States. In both, incumbents have surprisingly maintained a strong...

16 Dec

Culture

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Living in Israel But Were Afraid to Ask

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Erica Shaps In a few weeks, I will be coming to the end of seven months spent in Israel. When I first arrived, I thought...

08 Dec

Uncategorized

Why the Israeli Ad Campaign Matters

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Erica Shaps Last week, the Israeli Ministry of Immigration Absorption’s now-cancelled ad campaign directed at bring Israeli expatriates in American back home took the American...

06 Dec

History, topics

The Iranian Question: Nuclear Power or Nuclear Warheads?

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Leigh Nusbaum Watching what’s happening from the Middle East to the Midwest over the past few weeks, it seems that everyone has an opinion about...

22 Nov

Culture, History

Walking Over to the Other Side of the Pro-Peace Debate

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Scott Fox Soon after I sat down at my table at a fundraiser sponsored by the local Justice in Palestine chapter, the elderly woman sitting...

17 Nov

Uncategorized

Go East, Mr. President

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Maddie Ulanow We’ve passed the first two weeks of November, and the 2012 presidential elections are now just a year away. It seems the campaign...

15 Nov

Uncategorized

The Goldstone Saga

November 15, 2011
By Sala Levin
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by Erica Shaps Every year at Brandeis University there is at least one Israel/Palestine-related event that lights a fire under the campus. My freshman year, it...