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Is the Government of Israel Letting Down American Jewry?

I think that most Israelis feel a special bond with America, but not necessarily with its Jews.
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Netanyahu and the Media

By all accounts, power breeds insecurity, at times even paranoia.
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Binyamin Netanyahu and his Real Rival

Excuse the pessimism...
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The Fire This Time

Here are some “explanations” – in no particular order of improbability - of the fires...
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Kosher Anti-Semites

Gideon Levy is arguably the most radical journalist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Israel.
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The Party of the Frustrated

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. Though I’ve voted in Israeli elections whenever I’ve been in the country, I’ve never wanted to belong to a political party. But some of the critics of recent speeches by Ehud Barak and Moshe Ya’alon have helped…
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American Jews Speak out

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. An old joke has it that when a rabbi who knew both countries was asked to describe the difference between Israel and America, he said: “In Israel they give me advice and ask me for money; in America they give me money…
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Avigdor Liberman – The Next Prime Minister of Israel?

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. My sense of panic has been building up from the moment I first heard (which I alluded to in a previous comment) that what I had feared was about to become reality: Avigdor Lieberman, as Israel’s next minister of defense,…
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Fear and Hope

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day I remind myself again that had there been no Israel, the Jewish people would by now been on its way to becoming like the Amish and Judaism would have been reduced to a museum…

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