Fitting with the 100th anniversary of the kibbutz establishment, Toby Perl Freilich has produced a documentary of the kibbutz. It was placed on the website Tablet and is reproduced here.
Inventing Our Life examines the kibbutz movement at 100 years old, facing a rocky past and a promising future.
This was one comment: “This was absolutely beautiful [...]
While Israel wonders how many investigations to have into the Flotilla, the father of a groom got more than he bargained for in Turkey CNN reports that three family members at a wedding in Turkey were accidentally shot dead by the groom firing an AK-47 rifle in celebration.
A correspondent writes “I’m convinced this was an accident. [...]
Noam Chomsky has caused a great deal of angst among the “progressive leftists”, through his lukewarm support of the BDS movement.
Indeed, it has thrown the anti-Israel brigade into a real tizz.
Jeffrey Blankfort, described as growing up in a “non-Zionist Jewish home” is most put out by Chomsky’s insufficiently anti-Israel fulminations. Khalil Bendib conducted an interview with Chomsky, (which doesnt [...]
Tony Judt’s illness and recent death has reopened discussion of his anti-Zionist viewpoint. The Jerusalem Post had an editorial overview here.
As the article states: “The London-born Judt – who passed away on Friday at the age of 62 at his home in Manhattan, after being diagnosed two years ago with Lou Gehrig’s disease – produced remarkably lucid [...]
The Blank Pages of the Age blog has a disturbing piece medicins sans SHAME about the depths of anti-Israel bias and hypocrisy stooped to by Medicins sans frontiers.
An explanatory article from Haaretz is here.
As the Blank Pages of the Age blog states:
I received a copy of the following via email:-
The Chief Operational Officer,
Medcins Sans Frontiers
-Australian Office
-New York Office
Dear [...]
A brilliantly successful inaugural meeting of the Friends of Israel - Western Australia was held earlier today (Sunday) in Perth - see here. for their website and a summary of the organisation.
Mission statements included:
Support Israel as the State of the Jewish people; Defend Israel’s right to live in peace and security; Ensure accurate and fair reporting on [...]
R’ Eli Munk wrote that the Torah uses the word re’eh (see) rather than the word sh’ma (hear) when it comes to free will. He argued that hearing implies the impression of external factors whereas seeing implies internal perception, seeing into one’s soul. Understanding a choice involves knowing one’s own conscience.
Moshe spoke of the choice [...]
The First Sydney Jewish Music Festival is coming to Bondi Pavilion Sunday August 15. It promises to be a great day/night with 40 bands playing a variety of musical styles on 4 stages from 11am to 10pm.
The Shir Madness website has all the detail, including the bands here.
Here is a selection of some of the acts, [...]
A senior Israeli officer was killed and another critically wounded by sniper fire from Lebanese gunman/gunmen near the Israel/Lebanon border. The unprovoked attack occurred while Israeli troops were clearing vegetation near the border. A UNIFIL spokesman reported on the event here. As has occurred previously, Israel previously notified UNIFIL who passed on the information to the Lebanese army, [...]
When some anti’s tried to picket an Ahava store in Maryland, the response from the pro-Israel community was to give the store the best economic boost and sales ever, as reported here.
It was a reminder of another excellent “egg on your face” response to an attempted boycott demonstration in Canada from last year here.