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Gilad Shalit 4 years a captive

A personal message to the world from Gilad Shalit's father.
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Current Issues

A Saturday night in Sheikh Jarrah

By Brad Rothschild

Brad Rothschild, Ameinu Vice President and Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee, published an eyewitness account of the Sheik Jarrah demonstrations on foreignpolicy.com.

We republish it here with permission....
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STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE CORDOBA INITIATIVE

By The Jewish Labor Committee

The Jewish Labor Committee a bridge between the Jewish community and the trade union movement presents the following statement in support of the Muslim community center to be built a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center....
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David Twersky, Political Journalist and Peace Activist, Dies at 60

By J.J. Goldberg

David Twersky, a prominent Zionist activist, political journalist and peace advocate in Israel and America, died July 16 after a long illness. He was 60....
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Seek Peace and Pursue It

Community of Yes

By Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations for Americans for Peace Now, and Isaac Luria, Vice President for Communications and New Media at J Street

We hear far too many “Nos!” in the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities about why we can’t ever achieve any reasonable compromise to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
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Letter to Ameinu from the Sheikh Jarrah Demonstrators

By Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity

Letter recieved in response to our letter of support and fundraising campaign on their behalf....
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Visiting the Family of the Hamas Terrorist Who Tried To Kill My Wife

By David E.H. Gershon

David E.H. Gershon, whose wife was injured in a 2002 bombing, visited the bomber's family in eastern Jerusalem in a quest for closure and understanding. We reprint his reflections originally published by the Jewish Telegraphic Association. ...
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Israel

Is There Another Way?

By Vivian Silver

Vivian Silver the Co-Executive Director, Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development reflects on the recent and repeated demolition of a Bedouin village that exists without Israeli government recognition or the benefit of lawful protectio...
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Four Questions with Aviv Wasserman; Can Arabs and Jews Coexist in Lod?

By Ameinu and Aviv Wasserman

Ameinu recently asked Aviv Wasserman, founder and director of the Lod Foundation, about his work in the city which he hopes will serve as a model for coexistence both in Israel and in the Middle East....
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Update from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

By Jessica Balaban, Executive Director

Jessica Balaban, Executive Director of The Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues, discusses some recent and upcoming initiatives and proposed legislation....
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America

Making the Diaspora Bloom

By Toni Hellman

This article reprinted from New Voices – the National Jewish Student Magazine www.newvoices.org examines how Jews are energizing environmentalism outside of Israel. It looks at a Kibbutz in Seattle as well as Hazon and our own Habonim Dror Camping a...
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What Iran and A KOSHER MEAT COMPANY have in common

By Avram Lyon

Freedom to choose is a right that is under attack not only in Iran but here on our own shores as well. How proud we are of the brave Iranians standing up for their rights - how poorly we protecdt those that do it here....
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“Tough love” for Israel will be tough on the pro-Israel peace camp

By Dan Fleshler

If push comes to shove between Washtington and Jerusalem, can pro-Israel pro-peace movements support bold US diplomatic efforts to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict without being branded as traitors. ...
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Campus & Youth Update

Kibbutz Galuyot? I’d rather have Kibbutz Mish’ol

By Anton Marks

Rising above all the noise declaring the death of the Kibbutz - this article, not only, highlights the new kibbutz movement but also how that movement is working to improve all of Israel...
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Some Thoughts on March of the Living and Israel

By Mira Sucharov

Mira Sucharov shares her reflections on March of the Living, and warns of the potentially problematic linkage the trip creates, whether intentionally or not, between the Holocaust and contemporary Israel....
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To Inspire and Require

By Shawn Guttman

Guttman discusses the inspiration Habonim Dror provides and the responsibilities of members today....
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Jewish Identity

Anti-Semitism–Just Over the Sound: When the World Became Aware of the Jews of Malmӧ

By Miriam Katz, Translated from the Danish and excerpted by Jeffry V. Mallow

Miriam Katz shares the extent of anti-Semitism in Malmӧ, Sweden....
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Responding to Another Rabbi's Hateful Speech

By Rabbi Amy Eiberg

Rabbi Eiberg explains that words have power - and sometimes just deleting them isn't the answer.
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Useful Zionists

By Jeffry V. Mallow, Phd.

"Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

Chico Marx in "Duck Soup"

... Helping to clarify between rhetoric and truths when it comes to "loving criticism"...
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Book Talk

Passionate Pioneers

By Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich

Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 is the first comprehensive documented narrative of the movement to transmit a distinctive sense of secular yeddishayt via 1000 schools and 39 camps. Through extensive research, Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich, a veteran Ameinu member, reveals the far-reaching contributions of these institutions Full Review