Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma’ freed from Israeli detention thanks in part to international pressure By Adam Horowitz January 14, 2010 10 Jesse Rosenfeld reporting for The Daily Nuisance: After almost four months in Israeli custody without…
Earthquakes and inequality By James North January 13, 2010 36 The awful news from Haiti is still unclear, but one fact stands out already. On…
Settling into Sheikh Jarrah By Andrew Kadi January 13, 2010 63 The al-Kurd family property and tent (Photo: Andrew Kadi) On this beautiful and sunny day,…
Jews in recovery (or why liberal American Jews might help to imagine a binational future) By Philip Weiss January 13, 2010 162 What did I do on my vacation? I stood on a hillside in…
Getting to the root of the conflict By Alice Rothchild January 13, 2010 2 On January 11, the delegation I’m traveling with visited with Mohammed Jaradat of the BADIL…
A tear for Anne Frank in Cairo By Philip Weiss January 13, 2010 51 member of Gaza Freedom March, Cairo, Dec. 28, 2009
Former students blast their professor for blessing Gaza in print By Philip Weiss January 13, 2010 55 The following is on Jerry Haber’s great site, Magnes Zionist: his summary of a letter…
the meritocracy and Jewish kinship networks By Philip Weiss January 13, 2010 60 A lot of people are talking about David Brooks’s distastefully-smug column in the Times yesterday…
Low Expectations for Hard Bigotry in Israel By Ali Gharib January 12, 2010 14 I just got an e-mail from an Israeli PR firm that proclaimed, in bold, caps-lock,…
Solidarity from Saks to Sheikh Jarrah By Andrew Pollack January 12, 2010 8 Two weeks before Christmas, New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue played Scrooge by firing 115 workers…