Oren Rawls
By Oren Rawls
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With a Peel: Skip the sugar. Skip the ice. The opinions posted on Bitterlemons.org may be hard to swallow, but like its namesake fruit, the self-described “Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire” yields a healthy squeeze of unfiltered, juicy commentary. The Web site — published in Hebrew, English and Arabic — is produced and edited by Yossi Alpher, a…
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Bonds That Bind: Comparisons between Israel and South Africa are usually of the less-than-charitable variety, seeking to draw parallels between apartheid-era policies and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. A July 23 opinion article in the South African paper of record, though, has Johannesburg looking to Jerusalem for guidance on societal reconciliation. To…
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Unorthodox Behavior: A blogger going by the nom de guerre “Hasidic Rebel” and an agunah named Chayie Sieger are airing their ultra-Orthodox communities’ dirty laundry in the mainstream media. Sieger’s story of a Bobover chasidic marriage gone bad — real bad — is chronicled in the July 28 issue of New York, a weekly magazine….
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Run of the Rumor Mill: Forget the so-called cabal of neoconservative “chicken hawks” whose oil interests supposedly drove the Iraq war redux. The real movers and shakers in occupied Baghdad, according to rumors spreading around the Saddam-less capital, are the Mossad and the Jewish Agency for Israel, under the overall leadership of former Jerusalem mayor…
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Sensible Anti-Zionism: “There is a legitimate ground for taking a moral and sensible stand against Zionism,” firebrand Israeli-Arab politician Azmi Bishara writes in the July 3 issue of the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly. “We can retain our anti-Zionist cultural stand without being enemies of the Jews or to coexistence.” Bishara’s own anti-Zionist cultural stand was put…
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Separate But Not Equal: “Judaism,” David Gelernter announces in the July-August issue of Commentary, “is the most important intellectual development in human history.” To wit: The Cold War set the Christian and “post-Christian modernist” West against the Marxist East. “The one thing Christianity and Marxism had in common,” he observes, “was that they were both…
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News Fenigstein Beats the Drum for the Israel Film Festival
Israel is coming to a theater near you — courtesy of Meir Fenigstein. “Bali, Mali, it doesn’t matter where,” said the 52-year-old founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival. “I’ll take it to Mahu, [India].” So far, Fenigstein is making annual stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York, where the 19th…
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The ‘The’: It’s not often you read articles about articles — the parts of speech, that is. Leave it to Midstream, a monthly Jewish review, to wash away any pretense of innocence on the part of the word “the.” “There is a conceptual, cultural, and, finally moral issue that bears directly on antisemitism in the…
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