The Magnes Zionist

Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The So-Called Partial Settlement Freeze -- Mapai Unilateralism Again

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So Bibi has announced a unilateral 10 month "settlement freeze," except in East Jerusalem. Perhaps the proper Palestinian response...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

The Second Coming of Sarah Palin

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Among the things that Sarah Palin said this past week to Barbara Walters this week was this little gem on settlement expansion was the follo...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

David Shulman on Moshe Halbertal on the Goldstone Report on the NYRB Blog

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One of Moshe Halbertal's criticisms in the Goldstone Illusion was that the report brought in extraneous material about Israeli's Oc...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Children of Abraham vs. the Children of Joshua

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In today's weekly Torah portion, we read how the patriarch Abraham bought the field of Ephron the Hittite, and the Cave of the Machpelah...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

When the Liberal Israeli Meets the Judge – Moshe Halbertal On the Goldstone Report: Part Two

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In " The Goldstone Illusion ", Prof. Moshe Halbertal reserves his greatest ire for those sections of the Goldstone report that dea...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

When the Philosopher Meets the Judge -- Moshe Halbertal On the Goldstone Report: Part One

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Recently we have been witness to the curious spectacle of Israelis criticizing vehemently the Goldstone Report, yet at the same time callin...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

As US Congress Clears the IDF of Alleged War Crimes, the IDF Investigates Alleged War Crimes

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On the same day that the US Congress condemned the Goldstone Report and cleared Israel of war crimes in Gaza, YNET is reporting that the Isr...

Score One for the Bad Guys

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The House, as predicted, ran over the Goldstone Report. The automatic pro-Israel majority, working without any scruples or decency, or conce...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Goldstone’s Detailed Response to the Berman- Ros-Lehtinen Resolution Criticizing the Report

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I received Judge Goldstone's response to the House Resolution a few minutes ago as a pdf file. I OCR'ed, but there are probably many...
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The Goldstone Report and Jewish Law

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In "The Goldstone Report and Jewish Law", Rabbi Ido Rechnitz, Director of the Mishpetei Eretz Institute, displays his unfamiliarit...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Does Criticism of the Goldstone Report Pass the “NGO Monitor Test”

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Torrents of criticism have rained down upon the Goldstone Report. Some are by enthusiastic bloggers and journalists; others by law professor...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Blogging from the J-Street Conference

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I will not rain on the parade, I will not rain on the parade, I will not rain on the parade …. So last night I was at the J Street opening, ...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Passion of Richard Goldstone

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It is truly sad, though hardly surprising, how a Goldstone-basher coalition has emerged in the last week, a coalition made up of Israeli war...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Progressive Bloggers Lunch Held at Hotel Where J-Street Conference Will be Held

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WARNING What you are about to be invited to is neither sponsored, nor supported, nor endorsed by J-Street. There may be left over food fro...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Jonathan Sarna on Why Young American Jews Distance Themselves from Israel

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In a recent op-ed in the Forward , Prof. Jonathan Sarna, the foremost historian of American Jewry, attempts to explain why American Jews, e...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

J-Street Strikes Back at the Smearers

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A smear campaign against J-Street has been launched by – who else? The Weekly Standard, Commentary and the Standwithus crowd. They a...
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The Goldstone Report is Accepted by the UN Human Rights Council

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When Stephen Sondheim wrote "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone" for the musical Gypsy , he was prescient. The Goldstone Report has no...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Beyond Chutzpah – Jewish Responses to the Goldstone Report

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Jews worldwide are on the eve of the holiday celebrating the completion of the public reading of the Torah in synagogue. It is a lovely holi...
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Jerry Haber
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Jeremiah (Jerry) Haber is the nom de plume of Charles H. Manekin, an orthodox Jewish studies and philosophy professor, who divides his time between Israel and the US.
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