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Dear Subscribers and Visitors – We’ve Moved!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The IDF: All Conscripts, All Volunteers, Or Something In Between?
Posted in Haim, army-IDF, tagged draft, IDF, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, volunteer army on June 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Haim Watzman
One of Israel’s least-known secrets is that it no longer has a people’s army. I don’t say best-kept secret because no one is trying to keep it a secret. It’s a secret simply because it so clashes with the country’s mythology, and with the image it projects, that many of its own citizens and [...]
Synagogue and State: A Divorce Made in Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ll be participating today in al New Israel Fund webcast:
Religion and State: Fundamentalism or Freedom?
Along with Naomi Chazan, Frances Raday, and Jafar Farah.
8 pm Israel time, 1pm EST, 10am PST www.nif.org/webcast
I don’t know how the discussion will develop, but I can describe my starting point: The best way for Jews in Israel to freely [...]
No Drainer–Why Doesn’t Israel Hire Foreign Brains?
Posted in Economics, Education, Haim, Immigration, Uncategorized, tagged brain drain, Israel on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Low salaries, high taxes, terrorism, not enough jobs–why, one wonders, do any college graduates stay in Israel at all? So why don’t Israeli colleges and high-tech firms do what their counterparts all over the rest of the world do? I mean hire non-Jews.
In the spring issue of Azure, Marla Braverman sums up Israel’s brain drain [...]
Geneva Jive: Menachem Klein’s “A Possible Peace Between Israel & Palestine”
Posted in Haim, Peace, books, tagged Camp David, Geneva Agreement, Israel, Palestine, peace on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What if you make a peace agreement and nobody comes? That’s the fundamental story behind “A Possible Peace Between Israel & Palestine: An Insider’s Account of the Geneva Initiative.” It’s a fascinating look into the conflict and the “peace industry.” Contrary to the intention of its author, political scientist Menachem Klein, it raises more doubts [...]
Make Films, Not War
Posted in Gershom, Peace, Politics, Reconciliation, Uncategorized, tagged dialogue, peace camps, Peace It Together, Reconciliation on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three days left to apply .
Reena Lazar of Peace It Together tells me that her organization is accepting applications until May 10 for this summer’s peace camp: A small group of Israeli, Palestinian and Canadian teens will spend three weeks together on an island near Vancouver learning leadership and communication skills and making films [...]
More on “Southern Exposure”
Posted in Haim, Judaism, Peace, history, tagged archaeology, Bible, Israel, Palestine on April 22, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Readers of Gershom’s last post may be interested in an article I published in Nature last year on Elad’s role in running the site of the City of David excavations.
As I reported in the same journal earlier this month, a group of Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists recently unveiled a draft agreement about how archaeological sites and [...]
Southern Exposure: Telling Jerusalem Differently
Posted in Gershom, Islam, Judaism, Life in South Jerusalem, Peace, Politics, Reconciliation, Religion, history, tagged Al-Aqsa, City of David, Elad, Ir David, Islam, Jerusalem, Judaism, Life in South Jerusalem, Muhammad, Old City, Temple Mount on April 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Ancient Jerusalem Safari” said the sign on the side of the open-sided bus. It was parked this morning in the lot at the end of the promenade that stretches from UN Hill almost to Hebron Road. The promenade is an arc of stone walkways and stairs, of lawns and landscaping with a [...]
I have but one biography to give for my country
Posted in Gershom, Politics, U.S.-Israel relations, Zionism, tagged Philip Weiss, Zionism on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t usually quibble with what’s written about me, but hey! I only have one biography to give for my nation.
Philip Weiss writes at Mondoweiss:
The ‘67 War galvanized… young Gershom Gorenberg to move to Israel.
At the time of the 1967 war, I was 11 years old, in 6th grade, living with my parents in [...]
