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Four Questions for MK Colette Avital
By Newsletter Editor Member of Knesset Colette Avital shares her thoughts on Israel at 60, West Bank settlers and the peace process....Full Story
The Kibbutz has Returned
By Gavri Bargil In the mid-1980s, kibbutzim in Israel faced a severe financial crisis. This crisis afflicting the kibbutzim, primarily for political reasons, was added to the ideological crisis that had already started earlier but was suppressed until that moment. <...Full Story
What Does It Mean To Be the Pro-Israel Candidate?
By Gershom Gorenberg The major candidates in both parties seek the "pro-Israel" label. Now is the time to debate what it means to support Israel, so that a year from now, elected leaders will be able to refer to publicly recognized ideas to justify acting more sensibly. ...Full Story
Seek Peace and Pursue It
Politics Now
By Yigal Tzachor Israel’s Winograd Commission has been disbanded and so the conduct of the government during the Second Lebanon War is no longer on the agenda. The only current public debates are the one between Minister of Justice Daniel Friedman and President of I...Full Story
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Third Rail of American Politics
By Dan Fleshler An evenhanded American foreign policy that helped to end the occupation would be pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian and pro-American. American Jewish progressives must seize control of public rhetoric on Israel-Palestine, giving politicians rhetorical spac...Full Story
Middle East Triangle
By Hussein Agha and Robert Malley Nervous about being left out, all three parties--Israel, Fatah and Hamas--are laboring mightily to avert an understanding between the other two. But none of these two-way deals is likely to succeed. ...Full Story
Israel
A Quartet of Prime Ministers in Israel’s First Quarter Century
By Saadia Gelb Although still in my 30’s, from the standpoint of Labor Zionist experience, I was an “old man” when I arrived in Palestine in 1947. My observations and evaluations of Israel’s leaders, both political and military, are recorded throughout this book, ...Full Story
First kibbutz for Ethiopian immigrants opens in Gedera
By Tamar Rotem, Haaretz Correspondent One has to see Asanka Derba, an Ethiopian immigrant in his 50s, gently stroking the leaves of the celery and basil plants in his Gedera garden to understand that although he left behind his plot of land in Ethiopia when he moved to Israel, he remains...Full Story
Cuts in Israel’s Child Allowances, Fertility Rates and Poverty
By Judith Gelman In 2003, an Israeli family with 10 children received NIS 6,500 (about $1,450) a month in child allowances. Three years later, in 2006, an Israeli family with 10 children received NIS 2,850 (about $640) a month in child allowances. These cuts came abo...Full Story
The Challenge of Iran
It's time to talk to Iran
By Daniel Levy The strategy of using international sanctions and military threats to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions has failed. Israel and the U.S. have a lot more to gain from talking to Iran than isolating it....Full Story
The Case for Talking to Tehran
By Trita Parsi A signal from Israel that it supports American-Iranian talks would strengthen the hands of Tehran's pragmatists and compel Iran's cautious supreme leader to rein in his more aggressive and ambitious subordinates....Full Story
Democrats and Republicans Call on Bush to Launch 'Diplomatic Surge' with Iran Given New Intelligence on Iranian Nukes
By US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev), Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) Reid, Hagel, Lantos: Bush should launch 'direct, unconditional and comprehensive talks' with Iran....Full Story
America
Discrediting Senator Obama in the Jewish Community: A Response
By Kenneth Bob We have received several reports about dishonest emails circulating about Senator Obama, aimed at Jewish voters. The following letter distributed by the National Jewish Democratic Council should not be construed as an Ameinu endorsement of Senator Ba...Full Story
Bad for the Jews
By Eric Alterman A 57-to-35 percent majority of American Jews oppose an attack on Iran, even to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons...Full Story
The Israel Lobby Revisited
By Stephen Zunes The Israel Lobby seems powerful because it converges with more powerful interests driving U.S. policy, particularly the drive for hegemonic domination of the oil-rich Persian Gulf....Full Story
Campus
& Youth Update
Cross-Cultural Environmental Studies in Israel
By Rabbi Michael Cohen If you are looking for a different kind of study abroad experience that combines environmental studies, a cross-culture experience, the Middle East, kibbutz and desert living then the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is the program for you. ...Full Story
Rebuilding Israel’s Utopia
By James Horrox Fifty years after Martin Buber joyfully dubbed the kibbutz “an experiment that did not fail,” many observers of Israeli politics argue that it most certainly did. ...Full Story
Jewish Camping, Habonim Dror Style
By Shelly Goldwater Eagerly anticipating my ninth summer as executive director of Habonim-Dror Camp Tavor, I like to take a step back look at the big picture. And the big picture is: I’m more and more convinced of the crucial importance of what Jewish camps offer....Full Story
Jewish
Identity
Peoplehood and Return
By Rabbi David Gedzelman The intensity of an immersion experience, whether it be Birthright Israel, summer camp, a service trip, or a retreat, is difficult to maintain or replicate in any kind of follow-up or continuing programming. ...Full Story
Aharon David Gordon on Ecology and Love of Eretz Yisrael
By Rabbi Dr. Einat Ramon One of the modern Jewish thinkers whose philosophy may shed light on the connection between People and Land in the wake of Zionism, for us who live in Israel, is Aharon David Gordon, a founder of the Labor Movement and a giant of the Second Aliya (18...Full Story
Joy and Jeopardy
By Sharon Brous Our tradition teaches that we remain enslaved as long as slavery and affliction persist in our world....Full Story
Book Talk
"Our Pal God" and Other Presumptions
By Jeffry V. Mallow, Phd. Ameinu might appear to be a pretty serious organization, but we know how to laugh too. In fact, our immediate past president, Jeffry Mallow, has written a well-received collection of Jewish humor. Full Review
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You would think it would be easy for Jews, for Zionists, to agree to simply throw a party and enjoy this moment. Israel has reached 60 years as an independent state and as the recognized center of the Jewish people. It seems, however, that nothing is quite that simple....
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