Bloggers’ Round Table: Should Brandeis Hillel exclude JVP? (Captain Picard says no)

By David A.M. Wilensky March 15, 2011

The Bloggers’ Round Table is a new (potentially) weekly feature we’re trying out at New Voices. We e-mailed all of our bloggers a question. And here are some of their answers. Much to the consternation of some, Hillel at Brandeis voted not to bring the Brandeis chapter of the pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions group Jewish…

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Cutting through the rhetoric: J Street is centrist, not leftist

By David A.M. Wilensky March 15, 2011

I got about halfway through this Boston Globe editorial before I realized what seemed so remarkable about it to me: This editorial is the first thing I’ve read in the press that acknowledges that J Street is really a center/center-left organization. It’s not radically leftist to promote a two-state solution, which is at the heart…

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Reading List: Happy Purim from Eva Longoria, Alaska airlines freaks out about tefilin and more…

By David A.M. Wilensky March 15, 2011

Above, Eva Longoria wishes us all a happy Purim on behalf of Sesame Street. She’s not Jewish is she? Why can’t they get Natalie Portman to do this? The Nation wants to tell you all about “the new Israeli left.” How often have we heard that such a thing is about to become a big…

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