Robbie Gringras
By Robbie Gringras
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Opinion Well-Dressed AIPAC Youth and the American Way
It is always a strange and wonderful pleasure to attend an AIPAC Young Leadership event. Specially designed to undermine my stereotypical expectations of the organisation, these events are normally full of nuanced discussion, really bright young people, and sharp focused energy. I’m always surprised at how comfortable I feel in freely expressing my less-that-right wing…
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Opinion Poverty and Plenty — Two Israels
“By the time they hit seven years old, most Jewish children perceive Israel as a place of poverty and of danger.” So laments super-researcher/educator Sivan Zakai, of the University of Judaism. It makes me sad. I know that there are dangers in Israel, of course there are. But what of the danger on the streets…
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Opinion The Four Questions of the ‘Israel Project’
HOLLYWOOD — Day two in Tinseltown, and people have been asking me questions. Thought that was my job… One question was about my questions. Why bother asking “Israel questions” of Americans? There is no way that Americans are going to come up with the same answers as Israelis, so what’s the point? My answer to…
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Opinion Landing in Tinseltown
“So, like, I know that there’s no occupation. Like no one’s allowed to admit that there’s an occupation. Except a lot of people are saying that there is an occupation. More than a lot of people. Like nearly everyone is screaming that there’s an occupation. So maybe, I’m thinking, there must be like, a little…
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Opinion Land and People
So Orlando has very nice large hotels. They are close by one another, but you’re not allowed to walk between them. There are roads with some form of sidewalk, but no lighting. I reckon if you’re not expected to walk there at night, get a cab even if it’s the middle of the day. Still…
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Opinion Don’t Fence Me In
Okay, so first of all I have to acknowledge to myself that the schedule was a little extreme. To keep alert and open to a range of different people talking with me, to wander all over Manhattan to meet them, and then to expect myself to be sufficiently awake to write any thoughts other than…
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Opinion Number One!
You know when you have a hunch, an idea, and you dare to go with it? Set out on an adventure on the wings of a whim? And then find out that you’re an idiot? So I have a silly idea. (In fact, it’s an idea that emerges from the stable of Makom, the Israel…
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The Schmooze Five Songs for the Tent Protests
What is the theme song for Israel’s tent protests? Although there are some brand new candidates (Mosh Ben Ari’s “Look Me In The Eyes,” and “The Good Guys Will Win,” which HaDag Nachash wrote specially for the protests), Israelis are rediscovering popular songs from the recent past that would seem to have been written with…
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