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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Life Who Are The Jews Celebrating Christmas… in Israel?
Shira Greenblatt, a secular Israeli Jew who was born and raised in Jerusalem, loves Christmas. “Every year I attend Christmas services at the Dormition Abbey on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, and I will go again this year, too. It’s very special to learn about Christianity here, in Jerusalem. And I love the lights, the songs,…
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Community An Israeli AG Battles To Reclaim His Israeli Home — And Give It To The Palestinians
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. “This is breathtaking stupidity. That’s what it is.” This is how Michael Benyair, 75, Israel’s Attorney General from 1993-1996, under prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Benjamin Netanyahu, sums up the efforts by religiously and nationalistically motivated Jewish groups to create hubs of Jewish…
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Opinion American Jews Should Move To Israel – But Not Out Of Fear
Following a spate of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, including dozens of bomb threats aimed at Jewish Community Centers and the desecration of two cemeteries, Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog raised the alarm. The head of the Zionist Union Party called on the Israeli government to “urgently prepare and draw up a national emergency…
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Opinion Like Certain Israeli Leaders, Trump Doesn’t Want To Understand Art
Since Israel been at it much longer, President-elect Donald Trump could take a lesson from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Minister of Culture, Miri Regev, on how undercut the press, squelch freedom of expression and foment populist politics. Earlier this week, Trump took off precious time from his responsibilities to put together his impending…
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Opinion Israeli Muslims Want To Save the Muezzin — and So Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say “mosques” — it says “religious institutions” — but that’s clearly a codeword for mosques, since they’re the ones that use powerful outdoor loudspeakers,…
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Opinion Ari Shavit Is the Least Interesting Part of the Ari Shavit Scandal
The recent scandal surrounding Ari Shavit shouldn’t be about Ari Shavit at all. Ever since two women accused the acclaimed Israeli author of sexual misconduct, the Jewish media has been busy asking Shavit-focused questions: Should Haaretz have waited until the columnist resigned or should the newspaper have fired him? Did he commit a criminal or…
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Opinion It’s Not Just the Palestinians Who Are Getting the UNESCO Temple Mount Resolution All Wrong
UNESCO’s most recent resolution on Jerusalem is offensive and disrespectful. Passed on October 13 by a vote of 24 to 6, with 26 abstentions, the resolution refers to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall by its Muslim names only, an act which ignores history and fact and negates Jewish and Christian beliefs about the…
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Opinion Israel’s Shabbat Wars Are Heating Up — No Thanks to the Politicians!
Cultural Zionist philosopher Ahad Ha’am famously wrote, “More than the Jews have kept the Shabbat, the Shabbat has kept the Jews.” But Ahad Ha’am didn’t live in Israel in the 21st century, where it is more relevant to paraphrase him by writing, “More than the politicians have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the politicians.” In…
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