Ori Weisberg
By Ori Weisberg
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Opinion Abbas Is Wrong About Jewish History – But He’s Not Totally Wrong
This week, in response to the Trump administration’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared in a scathing speech that “Israel is a colonialist project that has nothing to do with Jews.” Abbas did not invent this characterization of Israel; it is a longstanding contention of anti-Zionists. Zionism’s…
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Opinion I Was An IDF Soldier During The First Intifada. It Changed Me Forever
This Saturday marks an important anniversary in Israeli history: 30 years since the First Intifada. For years leading up to the Intifada, which literally means dustup or uprising in Arabic, Israel had maintained Gaza as a pool of cheap labor. Tension had been building since 1985, when Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s “iron fist” policy resulted…
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Opinion How Naomi Shemer’s ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ Actually Hurts Israel
The songs we sing to ourselves play an outsized role in shaping how we see our culture. So it is distinctly uncomfortable to consider the possibility that a beloved anthem either explicitly or implicitly promotes a toxic idea. Naomi Shemer’s “Jerusalem of Gold” is among the most beloved modern Hebrew songs. No other song so…
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Yiddish קונסט פֿון פֿרויען וואָס שילדערט זייערע איבערלעבונגען אין קאָנצענטראַציע־לאַגערArt by women portraying their experiences in the concentration camps
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Yiddish איז דער דראַמאַטורג אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדן געװען אַ ציוניסט?Was playwright Avrom Goldfaden a Zionist?
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Culture Forever curious, never daunted, Frederick Wiseman sought to repair the world through film
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