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Prediction: U.S. will be at Durban II
I don’t buy it. I just don’t buy it. The U.S. is going to end up at Durban II. I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve read enough finessed lingo over the years to guess where this is going. This pre-conference...
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Hebrew, Arabic versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves bring Israelis, Palestinians...
From the Our Bodies, Ourselves blog: …Founded in Israel in 2005, Women and Their Bodies (WTB) is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative that is adapting “Our Bodies, Ourselves” into Hebrew and Arabic. “This...
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Lebanon elections show cautious promise for (slow) sea change
A couple of weeks ago, I went to a small breakfast hosted by the American Jewish Committee (I’m being installed onto their board later this week – isn’t that a weird expression – sounds like a stereo...
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Follow Iran’s elections live
From The Guardian. Or Twitter – from people in Iran. Or CNN Global HQ journalist on Twitter, @octavianasrcnn
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Exactly correct on American Jews, Obama, Israel & settlements, w/Ohio Jewish...
From The Jerusalem Post: Until now, the settlement issue has been far from a pivotal part of the American Jewish calculus. Zionism in contemporary America has been an elastic enough concept to contain...
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On anniversary of Kristallnacht, this is how some Americans feel about Jews
From AmericaBlog (via The Nookular Option): Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from...
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“The first problem is giving women authority…”
He did not say that, did he? From Ynet: One woman, who remains anonymous, sent a letter to Rabbi Levanon asking whether she could run for the position [of community secretary]. “I am a young woman and...
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O’Brien on Israel, ODOT on Twitter
There are few political issues that make me veer over the center and into the right but two of them for sure are casinos and Israel. Now, on casinos, I’m nearly unmoveable. But on Israel, although it...
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How Hillary Clinton Is Tougher Than Bill, More Qualified to Succeed in...
As the unusual confluence of the Jewish new year, Ramadan and September 11th has come and gone, I’ve been thinking a lot about the direct talks being pursued right now by U.S. Secretary of State...
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Women of the Revolution: Two-fer to watch from today’s This Week
women-revolution-lama-hasan-uprising-middle-east-libya-egypt-human-rights-politics-13069528While doing Sunday chores, I got to see the cover of the redesigned and Tina Brown-ified Newsweek about to...
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