All posts tagged Israel

On the afternoon of Nov. 21, 2012, Peace & Justice activists staged a demonstration in front of the White House. Four of them shared their views with this reporter.

The ladies of "Denise" on Keren Kayemet Street work on sorting buttons and beads on an unusually quiet day in the shop. Be'er Sheva: I would like to say that

(Rockets fired from Gaza exploded in the western Negev on Wednesday morning) Last week it rained in Be'er Sheva,  the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.   It was a refreshing desert rain, the kind that tamps

 Last year's Thanksgiving guests squeezed around our table.  Sometimes a big crowd in a small space makes it seem all that much more festive.   Even though John (read his

Richard Benkin burst on the international political scene in 2003 as an impassioned advocate for the now discredited Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the self professed “Muslim Zionist.”

Mitt Romney’s return last week from overseas fundraising should signal to the GOP that, at home and abroad, their presumed candidate for November is out of his league. Forget it. Romney

The first time it happened to me I was sitting on a bench outside of my Israel apartment in late March last year. It was night and I was

This is one of those projects that’s been on my mind for a long time. In fact, I’ve been thinking it over for almost a year now.  When John and

Have you ever heard of the Tetris effect? After playing the Soviet puzzle game for, say, hours and hours and hours on end, it starts to alter your perceptions of