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It’s not often that I take to the New Voices blog to disagree with one of our writers, but I’d like to respond to Sam Melamed’s post from earlier today. Sam defends Israeli Apartheid Week as an effort “to louden international calls for the BDS movement – that is, the boycott of Israeli goods, the […]
Today, the sixth incarnation of Israeli Apartheid Week gets underway. Â Aiming to amplify international calls for the BDS movement–that is, the boycott of Israeli goods, divestment from the Israeli economy and placement of sanctions on Israeli imports, respectively–organizers have planned various demonstrations in more than 40 international cities over the next 14 days. Â And though […]
A conversation with “Faces of Israel” Director Amy Beth Oppenheimer
A look at Israel’s marital issues
I was down in the shukh this week and I encountered what seemed to be a nest of alien eggs! Spindly, green, and round, they seemed to have come here from somewhere near Neo Nebulus Nine and were getting ready to hatch and begin phase two of an invasion of Earth. They were on sale […]
As another Friday night set in, I pondered whether to schlep out of my warm house into the snow flying sideways to make the long trek (a seven-minute bus ride) down to Hillel, and after I coordinated with some friends at the University of Pittsburgh–whom I hadn’t seen all week–I decided that the schlep was worth […]
A poem
Aging and the end of a career in Philip Roth’s “The Humbling”
One of the most exciting events, and a personal favorite of mine, is seeing Jews arrive in Israel for the first time.  Before they arrive in Israel they brew up high expectations that cause them terrible excitement.  Therefore, they are generally overcome by  emotion when they do arrive in Israel.  I have only hazy memories of […]
King Solomon lives (maybe)! Well, he’s hardly the next Elvis come back from the dead, but it seems archaeologists have found something to say that Solomon actually existed. I can imagine biblical archaeologists salivating over this latest find, a wall dating back to three thousand years ago. If this wall is indeed that old, says […]