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Opinion Ashkenormativity? What about Israel-Centrism?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I first heard complaints about Ashkenormativity in March 2009, five or six years before the term was apparently coined. I was attending a conference in Chicago for young Yiddish speakers and college students interested in studying the language. While explaining how learning Yiddish as a teenager and…
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Culture Amos Oz: Israel’s Melancholy Visionary
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I only had the opportunity to meet Amos Oz, the distinguished Israeli author who passed away on December 28 at the age of 79, on one occasion. It was in 2004, in Philadelphia. I was then on a Jewish Studies fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, having…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Calls On US To Recognize Israel’s Claim To Golan Heights
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas again called on the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Israel is stepping up its campaign for international recognition of its claim to the strategic plateau. A joint statement by the two Republican senators came on the same…
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The Schmooze Nas Daily Says ‘Most Jews And Arabs Want To Get Along’
In footage of his 2018 visit to Jerusalem, an Israeli-Jewish family surrounds Israeli-Palestinian 26-year-old Nas. “All Arabs are terrorists!” a 13-year-old Orthodox girl shouts. “But I am an Arab,” Nas says, grinning painfully. “Arabs are barbarians,” the girl’s adult brother says. “They aren’t intelligent.” The video, the 998th travel video in the same number of…
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Opinion Palestinians Are Right To Outlaw Selling Land To Settlers
I spent the summer of 2017 living in the heavily occupied West Bank city of Hebron. On July 24, I witnessed the takeover of a Palestinian property in the center of the old city by around 100 settlers. I watched as members of the Abu Rajab family, still living on one of the floors of…
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Israel News Democratic Newcomers Herald ‘New Reality’ For Israel In Congress
The new U.S. Congress held its first session on Thursday, ushering in a new generation of Democratic lawmakers and possibly signaling a new era in Israel-U.S. relations. For the first time since entering the White House two years ago, U.S. President Donald Trump will have to deal with a new reality in which his political…
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Fast Forward More Than Half Of New Immigrants To Israel In 2018 Were Not Considered Jewish
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than half of the immigrants to Israel in 2018 were not recognized as Jewish under religious law. According to end of the year data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics, of the 30,300 immigrants who arrived in Israel last year under the Law of Return, some 12,600 were recognized as…
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Opinion Birthright Will Fail If It Doesn’t Evolve With Young Jews
On New Year’s Day, a young woman rushed the stage at the “MegaEvent” held in Jerusalem for participants in Birthright, the program that takes young American and other Diaspora Jews to Israel on a free ten-day trip. BREAKING: Young Jew disrupts Birthright’s ‘MegaEvent’, a nationalist rally in Israel with all Birthright participants, holding a sign…
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