OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-26-11 When I studied modern Jewish history in graduate school, one book in particular revolutionized my understanding of Israel – and helps explain Israel’s current democratic predicament — Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. By following the migrations of Russian Jewish ideologues, especially [...]
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All posts for the month July, 2011
Israeli democracy needs ‘Sharanskyism’ not ‘Liebermania’
Posted by giltroy on July 26, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/israeli-democracy-needs-sharanskyism-not-liebermania/
Doubly disgusted The boycott bill and its hysterical opponents
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-19-11 The continuing fight over the anti-boycott law is doubly depressing. Although the law is unnecessary and counter-productive, most opponents nevertheless overreacted, once again hysterically claiming that Israeli democracy is dying. It is hard to believe free expression is imperiled in a country that debates such laws so loudly. I [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 19, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/doubly-disgusted-the-boycott-bill-and-its-hysterical-opponents/
Rabbi Hartman offers a ‘theology of response’
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 7-14-11 Although he moved from Montreal to Jerusalem in 1971, Rabbi David Hartman still inspires many Canadians with his warmth, his passion and his brilliance. Similarly, as his new book makes clear, his experiences as a Montreal rabbi continue to shape him, too. In The God Who Hates Lies: [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 14, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/rabbi-hartman-offers-a-theology-of-response/
Jerusalem’s magical mix of old and new, East and West
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-12-11 I am tired of Israelis complaining that Jerusalem turned “black” – the dismissive shorthand for ultra-Orthodox. And I am tired of visitors on missions visiting Jerusalem on the “seam” – only viewing the real city through the prism of conflicts – between Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Ashkenazi [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 12, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/jerusalem-magical-mix-old-new-east-west/
Rabbi Hartman’s heartfelt answer to the heartless rabbis
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 7-5-11 Anyone who doubts the importance of protecting freedom of speech should watch the farce unfolding in Jerusalem over that despicable book Torat HaMelekh, which misreads Jewish texts to justify killing non-Jews during wartime. By summoning the leading rabbis who vouched for the book to deny allegations of incitement, the [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 5, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/rabbi-hartman-heartfelt-answer-heartless-rabbis/
