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Mark Braverman: ‘I think we Jews need to look in the mirror … and stop looking backwards’

Mark Braverman draws upon his own journey as a US-raised Jew with a Jewish Palestinian family background and frankly — refreshingly! — talks about the connection between Jewish identity and … Continue reading

14 December, 2009 · Leave a comment

'The Battle for Israel's Soul' – Channel 4 on Jewish fundamentalism

Jewish fundamentalism is something the mainstream media torch is rarely shone on, with recent articles about spitting at Christian clergy being confined mostly to the israeli press. Few exceptions exist: … Continue reading

5 December, 2009 · 1 Comment

A fanatical ultra-orthodox ‘welcome’, and, a hidden agenda for Jerusalem

Anne Barker, an Australian journalist with the ABC, was recently caught in an Hasidic mob’s hate in occupied Jerusalem, here with an audio testimony. So called Christian zionists might be … Continue reading

11 July, 2009 · Leave a comment

A fanatical ultra-orthodox ‘welcome’, and, a hidden agenda for Jerusalem

Anne Barker, an Australian journalist with the ABC, was recently caught in an Hasidic mob’s hate in occupied Jerusalem, here with an audio testimony. So called Christian zionists might be … Continue reading

11 July, 2009 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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