Israel
1948, the Nakbah: The Palestinian perspective
This article is to present the Palestinian point of view mainly for reference purposes. Americans deserve to know all perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian matter.MORE »
My "coming out" story … as a J Street supporter
Sunday evening during the J Street conference in Washington DC, I struggled to stay concentrated. After a previously inspiring day; exhaustion had suddenly sunk in. I was about to succumb to my daydreams when a social justice activist from Texas energetically bounced on stage to give her “Coming Out” speech.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Israeli Legal System – Designed for Discrimination
Taiser Khatib, a Palestinian Israeli citizen, met his wife in the West Bank. It could have been a one of a kind American fairy tale romance: love at first sight, engagement, wedding, two young children, two working parents. It could have been, but for one huge difference.MORE »
Finding balance with the "IZUN/MIZAN" film and dialogue series
If the new Reese Witherspoon rom-com isn’t cutting it and you’re looking for films with some bite, you might want to check out IZUN/MIZAN. Plus you won’t be cursing yourself for wasting your hard-earned cash on a Reese Witherspoon movie (IZUN/MIZANis free, but please donate at the door if you can).MORE »
Terror in the name of immodesty
Earlier this year, a friend and I were returning to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. It being summer and us coming from the beach, my friend was wearing a long dress that covered everything expect her shoulders. As we were walking out of the central bus station to catch a local bus home, a woman approaches my friend and says to her:MORE »
For those who love Israel, enough is enough
What are we to make of the recent flood of stories on religious extremism coming from Israel?MORE »
OPINION | Israel's Rosa Parks
Many Americans know about Rosa Parks, who became the “mother of the modern-day civil rights movement,” when she refused to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, on Dec. 1, 1955.MORE »
Global Women's Leadership Convening: Sandy Pappas and Paula King bring women from Israel and Jordan to Minnesota
The seeds for the first Global Women's Leadership Convening, held July 13-21, 2011, at St. Catherine University, were planted a decade ago. While visiting her daughters in Israel, Minnesota State Sen. Sandy Pappas became friends with Rina Bar-Tal, chair of the Israel Women's Network, a nonpartisan organization that promotes the status of women in Israel.MORE »
My love and not so like relationship with Orthodox Israel
There’s a question that we all know. The one that without fail comes up in every discussion of identity. The one every Jew living in American has most likely heard at least once in their life.
“Are you an American Jew or a Jewish American?”MORE »
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