By MOIRA SCHNEIDER / JTA The Jerusalem Post Wed, Nov 2, 2011 A conference on apartheid imparts painful episodes from the country’s past, and shows how old fault lines still divide the Jewish community. CAPE TOWN – When anti-apartheid activist Lorna Levy first became involved in politics as a student in the [...]
Apartheid-era divisions linger among S. Africa’s Jews
by RAINman on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Video: Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who?
by RAINman on 11. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Atzmon speaks about The Wandering Who?Israel, Zionism Jewishness, Jewish identity politics, tribalism and so on. A film by Tali Atzmon see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjejrGxFY4&feature=youtu.be Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Mosque in northern Israel in ‘price tag’ arson attack
by RAINman on 07. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
BBC 3 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT A mosque in northernIsraelhas been torched and sprayed with graffiti, in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists. Hundreds of residents from thevillageofTuba-Zangariyamarched in protest against the attack, and there were reports of clashes with the police. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he [...]
Jewish Opinion being alienated by Israeli Policies, Not by any “Delegitimization” Campaign
by RAINman on 30. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by Allan C. Brownfeld Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review , a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education , and editor of Issues , the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism . He gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with [...]
Voices for Peace: “We Are Young Jews, and We Get to Decide What That Means”
by RAINman on 30. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by Abby Zimet see video and pic here: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/09/28-0 Common Dreams 09.28.11 – 12:21 PM Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown, marking the start of the Jewish New Year, the day of Judgment. In its honor, and with the issue of Palestinian statehood roiling the U.N., video and commentary from the young Jewish [...]
9 /11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism
by RAINman on 23. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Antony Lerman, Antony Lerman is the former Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and founding editor of Antisemitism World Report, published yearly from 1992-1998. He blogs at http://antonylerman.com/ openDemocracy 14 September 2011 The links between the Israeli far right and Islamophobic groups in Europe follow a certain inexorable logic of the [...]
Hamas official slams group’s opposition to statehood bid
by RAINman on 20. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By MOHAMMED MAR’I Arab News September 18, 2011 RAMALLAH: A senior Hamas official on Sunday criticized his movement for opposing the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. Ahmed Yousef, deputy foreign minister in the government of Ismail Haniyeh, also criticized his movement for barring popular activities in support of the move [...]
Video: ‘Defamation’
by RAINman on 13. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
‘Hashmatsa’ (‘Defamation’) by Israeli director Yoav Shamir dares to attack one of the sacred cows of Israel and of the Jewish people thinking – how it reacts to antisemitism around the world, how it looks at the evil of the Holocaust, and how young generations are being educated in Israel with respect to these painful [...]
Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls
by RAINman on 07. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Sygmunt Bauman says Israel ‘terrified of peace’ and ‘taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts,’ in interview with Polish weekly ‘Politika.’ By Roman Frister Haaretz Thu, September 01, 2011 Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigatedIsraelharshly this week, saying it did not want [...]
American Taxpayers Subsidize Israel’s Prosperity
by RAINman on 07. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by Alison Weir, Antiwar Forum September 01, 2011 Israel’s Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article callingIsrael“The New Golden Country” for young people from around the world. It reports thatIsraelboasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and “a lower unemployment rate than theU.S.” The article fails to mention the well over $3 billion [...]
Jewish and black South African teens cycle to Durban for charity
by RAINman on 24. Aug, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Forty teens come together under the auspices of Cycalive, an annual initiative that brings youth of different backgrounds together to raise funds for educational programs in need. Haaretz Tue, August 23, 2011 Jewish and black South African teens have come together for a joint, 400-mile bike ride toDurbanunder the auspices of the Cycalive outreach [...]
Not Jewish enough for Glenn Beck – nor Israeli enough
by RAINman on 15. Aug, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Undeterred by being dropped from Fox, or by the fallout from having compared the victims of July’s Norway massacre to Hitler Youth, the media personality has assumed a prophet’s intonation in urging his followers to stand with him in Jerusalem on August 24. By Bradley Burston Haaretz Sun, August 14, 2011 This has [...]
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