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Impressions from J Street, 2017
by Ron Skolnik BERNIE SANDERS, SUPERSTAR EVERY J STREET conference has its rock star, that one figure whose presence elates the crowd and gives them hope amidst the gloomy reality. In 2013, for...
View ArticleMarch 16: Jericho
Israel ceded administrative control of the city of Jericho to the Palestinian Authority on this date in 1994. The city had been occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, then by Israel since the 1967...
View ArticleStanley Sheinbaum and the Struggle for Human Rights
Peace activist and human rights advocate Stanley Sheinbaum was born in New York on this date in 1920. He began his work life as an economics teacher at Stanford University and Michigan, but quit...
View ArticleNir Baram’s Search for an Israeli-Palestinian Solution
by Bennett Muraskin Discussed in this essay: A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank, by Nir Baram, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. Text Publishing,...
View ArticleThe Erosion of the Two-State Solution
WITH NOTHING PLAUSIBLE TO TAKE ITS PLACE by Ron Skolnik Published in the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents A “REAR PROJECTION EFFECT” is the term used for the old movie-making technique that...
View ArticleO My America: Go Ahead and Boycott
by Lawrence Bush YOU WANT to boycott Israel? You now have my blessing, thanks to Donald Trump. For the many years I’ve been associated with Jewish Currents, and for years before that association...
View ArticleBridging the Israeli-Palestinian Divide
NOA BAUM CAPTURES HER STAGE PERFORMANCE IN A BOOK by Helen Engelhardt Discussed in this essay: A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace, a theater performance and a book by Noa Baum....
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Support for the Two-State Solution in Israel
According to a poll released on this date in 2012 by Blue White Future (Atid Kachol Lavan), a movement co-founded by Ami Ayalon, the former director of Israel’s Shin Bet, nearly half of Israeli Jews...
View ArticleSamplings from the New York Jewish Film Festival
by Mitchell Abidor THE ALWAYS INTERESTING New York Jewish Film Festival will be running from January 10 to January 23 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Information on screenings can be found at...
View ArticleAnti-Occupation Activists Undeterred By Israel’s Blacklist
Photo courtesy of Solidarity of Nations – Achvat Amim by Emily C. Bell ISRAEL HAS ABRUPTLY closed the door on members of twenty organizations that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions...
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