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2010-05-12T07:26:29-07:00

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Signs of Hope from the American Jewish Community

Last updated on: May 12, 2010 at 7:26 am By Mark Braverman

Dear friends and loyal subscribers, I have not dropped off the earth! In fact, I have been spending a lot of time traveling across it, and that, along with the press of several writing projects, has kept me from posting. I see that I need to find a way to stay current with the blog even when my schedule is overloaded. I have been resisting the impulse to use the blog to forward items that I think are important, but... Read more

Mark Braverman

2010-02-16T05:15:19-07:00

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Challenging the Law of Return, and an important new book

Last updated on: February 16, 2010 at 5:15 am By Mark Braverman

In this week’s posting I bring two items to your attention. 1. Challenging the Law of Return The first item is a powerful statement by American Jewish activists involving the State of Israel’s “Law of Return.” This law, one of the very first enacted by the state, is the cornerstone of political Zionism and in a very real sense the state’s raison d’etre. The law gives every Jew, no matter what his or her citizenship or country of birth, the... Read more

Mark Braverman

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Israeli Exceptionalism

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Zionism Laid Bare

2010-01-29T06:01:07-07:00

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“We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.” Howard Zinn dies at age 87

Last updated on: January 29, 2010 at 6:01 am By Mark Braverman

I graduated from Columbia in 1970. Students had closed down the campus that Spring over the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Two years earlier the campus was in turmoil when students and faculty occupied several buildings in protest over the University’s plans to take over a chunk of the local neighborhood in upper Manhattan to build a gym. The President of Columbia had sent in NY riot police to break heads and drag out the protesters. So when that President took... Read more

Mark Braverman

2010-01-01T07:41:11-07:00

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Jerusalem 2009: The Light in the Tent

Last updated on: January 1, 2010 at 7:41 am By Mark Braverman

I sat in the tent and it was full of light. Fawzieh al-Kurd is the matriarch of one of the three families who were forcibly expelled from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem between November 2008 and October 2009. In all, close to 60 people, all 1948-era refugees from West Jerusalem and other parts of what is now Israel, were resettled in this neighborhood in the 1950s by international agreement. They have now been evicted by the... Read more

Mark Braverman

2009-12-13T03:22:06-07:00

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Rededicating the Temple – A Hanukah Homily

Last updated on: December 13, 2009 at 3:22 am By Mark Braverman

The Jewish festival of Hanukah is celebrated this year on December 11-19th. The Hebrew word refers to the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after driving out the Seleucid Greek occupiers in 165 BCE. It’s one of the most joyful holidays in the Jewish calendar, in which we celebrate our commitment to the values of freedom and human rights that have given us strength and resilience as a people. Today, the Jewish people face a challenge equal to or greater... Read more

Mark Braverman

2009-11-17T12:27:38-07:00

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The Politics of Hope

Last updated on: November 17, 2009 at 12:27 pm By Mark Braverman

Roger Cohen gives us the politics of despair. On the one hand, his recent OpEd in the New York Times, “A Mideast Truce” shows us what a long way we’ve come in editorial coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He’s clear about the horrendous reality of Israel’s settlements, even though he stops short of naming it as the colonial project that it is. He calls the separation wall a “land grab” and credits it for shattering Palestinian lives — even though... Read more

Mark Braverman

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