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Nov
Walking Over to the Other Side of the Pro-Peace Debate
By Scott Fox
Soon after I sat down at my table at a fundraiser sponsored by the local Justice in Palestine chapter, the elderly woman ...
16
Nov
What Does Kosher Mean Today?
By Scott Fox
Food is perhaps one of the “greyest” aspects of Jewish life today. The Torah instructs us to abstain from ritually impure...
02
Nov
Should We Remove the "Israel Filter" When Studying the Middle East? It's Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syria...
02
Nov
Should We Remove the “Israel Filter” When Studying the Middle East? It’s Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syr...
02
Nov
The Rise of Jews in the True North
By Scott Fox
Last week, Canada’s Consul General came to talk at my school (Carleton College in Minnesota) about the importance of the ...
28
Oct
The Shalit Conundrum . . . Or Opportunity
By Leigh Nusbaum
When Gilad Shalit was kidnapped more than five years ago, I was almost 17 years old and en route to Israel for the fi...
20
Oct
How Should the Jewish Community Respond to Syria?
After taking a back seat in recent weeks to news from elsewhere in the world, the civil war in Syria is back in newspaper headlines, ...