Gil Troy: Struggling With Jewish Power

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Shalom Hartman Institute, 4-25-12 Gil Troy, a Fellow of the Engaging Israel Project at Shalom Hartman Institute, talks about how, in the context of the current US presidential election, Jews in the US and in Israel must come to grips with power.

Israel at 64: What I Am Celebrating This Year… The Sounds, Smells, Sights, Tastes and Touch of Israel

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Shalom Hartman Institute, 4-22-12 Fellows of the iEngage Project at Shalom Hartman Institute write about what they are celebrating as Israel turns 64:  TAL BECKER: Israel’s People STEVEN M. COHEN: Being a Free People in Our Land YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI: Hebrew Music STUART SCHOFFMAN: The Successes of Zionism GIL [...]

iEngage: Hartman Summer Internship: Continuing the Jewish Mentorship Tradition

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, iEngage — Shalom Hartman Institute, 3-22-12 The new bestselling tell-all memoir by Mimi Alford, the 19-year-old Monica Lewinsky of the John Kennedy White House, who detailed her 18-month-long affair with JFK, has once again made the phrase “White House intern” a mark of shame rather than a badge of [...]

iEngage: Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Haredi Wolf?

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, iEngage — Shalom Hartman Institute, 2-1-12   The reddening of Israel, dismissing the Jewish state as a right-wing, religious, Republican project, increasingly foreign to cultured, blue-state Democrats, continues. The latest storyline describes ultra-Orthodox Israelis - haredim - as medieval Neanderthals rapidly converting Israel into an Iran-style theocracy. This popular caricature encourages those liberals [...]

iEngage: Field of Dreams and Reality: Toward a Balanced Zionist Vision

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, iEngage — Shalom Hartman Institute, 11-8-12 Healthy nations, like healthy individuals, have dreams, ambitions, defining ideals. Democracies are dream factories, where the “ought” – the model society we hope for – inspires individual and collective achievements. In the United States, the “American Dream” shapes personal ambitions, while noble principles [...]

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