Eetta Prince-Gibson is the Israel editor for Moment magazine, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Report, and a regular contributor to Haaretz, +61J, The Forward, Foreign Policy, and other international publications. She lives in Jerusalem.
Eetta Prince-Gibson
By Eetta Prince-Gibson
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Opinion I made aliyah 50 years ago. The recent protests remind me of why I stay
The current crisis has clarified my reasons for and reinforced my commitment to living here
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News Jewish Israelis are heading to Arabic class — and learning a bit more about Palestinians
‘I thought it was absurd that Jews don’t know Arabic and lots of people agreed with me,’ said Gilad Sevitt, who developed a popular online course to teach it
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News 12 new letters: Revamped aleph bet aims to recognize women and non-binary people
As part of her capstone project at her Tel Aviv-area college, graphic artist Michal Shomer revamped the Hebrew alphabet — adding a dozen new letters to make the 3,000-year-old language more inclusive of both women and non-binary people. She made what she calls multi-gender Hebrew free to anyone in the past year, and 10,000 have…
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News Will lawsuit against New Israel Fund chill progressive fundraising?
A case currently pending in the New York District court has the potential to undermine fundraising for progressive causes and intensify polarization within the American Jewish community. At issue is a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service by New York attorney David Abrams, a self-described “passionate pro-Israel Zionist” and founder and president of The…
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Opinion I’m Israeli And I’m Ashamed My Government Sent Naftali Bennett To Comfort Pittsburgh Jews
In the wake of the massacre that led 11 dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Trump is making his way there despite 26,000 Jews who signed a petition that he stay away. He’s not the only unwelcome politician to use the tragedy for a photo-op. The State of Israel sent Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali…
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Community Majority Of Israelis And Palestinians Have Lost Faith In The Two-State Solution
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. Support for the two-state solution has declined among both Palestinians and Israeli Jews to its lowest level of support in two decades. Yet it is possible to increase support for the two-state solution by adding incentives for both sides. These are the main…
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Community I Used To Be Israeli Cartoonist Avi Katz’s Boss — And His Firing Was A Travesty
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. In a democracy, the media is responsible for providing the public with the information and context it needs to make informed political decisions. Last week, when The Jerusalem Post terminated its relationship with veteran illustrator and political cartoonist Avi Katz, it revealed that…
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Life Chernobyl’s Jewish Liquidators Remain Forgotten In Israel, 32 Years Later
Alexander Kalantirksy speaks halting Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent. He was seated in a straight-backed chair in his small, dark apartment in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv. “Nu, I am not a hero,” he said matter-of-factly, and a bit impatiently. “I am an engineer. I knew what it meant. It had to…
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