Tag Archives: Israel and Palestine
From NYC to Tel Aviv: Becoming Israeli, Staying Progressive
A Q&A WITH HILLEL SCHENKER by Ron Skolnik BORN IN BROOKLYN, New York, in 1942, journalist Hillel Schenker arrived by boat in Israel in November 1963. Since the 1970s, he has been a major participant in the Israeli peace movement, including as a co-founder of Peace Now, and today serves as Israeli co-editor of the […]
Read MoreFive Days in Palestine
by Dina Heisler and Susan Nobel PEOPLE around the world and across time crave similar things. They want the chance to raise their families within a peaceful and fair environment, one that affords a decent quality of life without fear of one’s fellow man. This was the main takeaway from our voyage into another world: […]
Read MoreTrump’s Speech: Lights Out for the Two-State Solution?
by Ron Skolnik THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION, on life support for years now, might just have been put to death by one Donald J. Trump. The situation is critical and what a host of international actors do in the upcoming weeks could determine its continued viability. Trump’s weapon of attempted execution was the speech on […]
Read MorePoints of Departure — Part 2
Photo above: Palestinian ruins in forest (photo credit: Deborah Bright) A JEWISH ISRAELI ENCOUNTERS THE NAKBA by Linda Dittmar In Part 1 of “Points of Departure,” as the writer and her touring companion, Deborah, travel through a Jewish National Fund pine forest in Israel’s Gilboa region, they come across stones that might, or might not, […]
Read MorePoints of Departure — Part 1
Photo above: Palestinian ruins in forest (photo credit: Deborah Bright) A JEWISH ISRAELI ENCOUNTERS THE NAKBA by Linda Dittmar Editor’s introduction: One hundred years ago, on November 2, 1917, the British government published the Balfour Declaration, a “declaration of sympathy” for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” (which also stipulated […]
Read MoreFifty Years, and No End in Sight
HAS ISRAEL EVER TRULY INTENDED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE WEST BANK? by Ron Skolnik From the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents ON THE EVENING of November 4, 1995, I walked home happily to my small Tel Aviv apartment, having just been part of the massive crowd that had come out in support of Prime […]
Read MoreReflections on Conversion and a Trip to Israel
by Alan Rutkowski I CAME of age in the United States during the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Although I certainly never put my life on the line as some did in those struggles, as a university student I participated in them, especially the anti-war movement, and they contributed to my core values […]
Read MoreOctober 4: Rose Warfman and the French Resistance
Rose Warfman (Gluck), a heroine of the French Resistance who survived internment in Auschwitz, was born in Zurich, Switzerland on this date in 1916. A direct descendant of the Magid Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1704–1772), the hasidic leader who was successor to the Baal Shem Tov, she lived with her Orthodox family in Paris from […]
Read MoreEconomic Protests in Ramallah: The Word on the Street
by Alyssa Goldstein I’m reporting this week from the Jewish Currents Ramallah office (kidding. I’m just here visiting). I happen to be here at a time when the West Bank is rife with economic protests. People are angry at the rising costs of living, Palestinian Authority employees aren’t being paid their salaries, and taxi drivers […]
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