By Michelle Albert Woody Allen speaks to NPR about his newest movie, the difference between life and fiction, and what he's like off camera. [NPR] While religious hatred dominates the headlines, a rabbi reminds us that peaceful interfaith exchanges are, in reality, more widespread. [StarTrib] Moment columnist Gershom...
Gershom Gorenberg and David Frum recently spoke on bloggingheads about Israel's future and the importance, or lack thereof, of its settlements in the West Bank. ...
In recent days, 60 Minutes has come under attack from pro-Israel groups for its expose on Israel's West Bank settlements (Clip 1, Clip 2). Today, Ha'aretz reported that the Israeli government has released a new, comprehensive database about its settlements in the West Bank. "Here, for...
by Jeremy Gillick [caption id="" align="alignright" width="184" caption="Settlers in Hebron"][/caption] Much of the West Bank is in turmoil following this morning's highly anticipated evacuation of the Orwellian "House of Peace" in Hebron. Though the evacuation itself was a success, as Israel's security forces took several hundred settlers...
By Jeremy Gillick There is an interesting drama developing around one of the West Bank’s most radical and controversial Jewish settlements. Home to the Ma’arat HaMachpelah—the Tomb of the Patriarchs—Hebron is a sacred cow for Israel’s religious right (read Glenn Frankel's January story about Hebron in...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler The New York Times runs a piece today on settlers who don't believe in the settlements. Yes, that's right: While the vast majority of settlers vow never to abandon the heart of the historic Jewish homeland — these ancient and starkly beautiful hills whose...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpSjDKYlk0] Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics? It can be a dangerous game, it's true, especially when sportswriters suddenly think they're foreign policy experts. But more often...