Jerusalem Day Belong to All Israelis, not just “Settlers”

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-22-12 The lecturer at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem this Sunday looked like your typical, distinguished, Tel Avivi secular scientist, with an impressive position and a delicious enthusiasm for his “lovely” chemical results.  Further perpetuating the stick-figure impression of him as another far-left, [...]

Learning from Obama’s gay marriage wobble

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-15-12 President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of gay marriage last week saddened me. President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of gay marriage last week saddened me. For a president of the United States to back into such a monumental announcement reflected weakness, not strength, diminishing the man, the [...]

Raped anglo teen brutalized by the system yet redeemed by strangers

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-9-12 Three years ago, coverage by Ya’akov Lapin, followed by some columns I wrote, alerted the Jerusalem Post community to an abomination that occurred in northern Israel. Police arrested an American immigrant teenager in Karmiel for urinating on a lawn in late November, 2009. One police officer beat [...]

Gil Troy: March of the Living Canada 2012 Mini Israel Ceremony: Keynote Address, Lay Down Your Arms

March of the Living Canada 2012 Mini Israel Ceremony, Gil Troy Keynote, Lay Down Your Arms Every year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands of students march from Auschwitz to Birkenau honoring the memories of six million Jews and so many other innocent people murdered in the Holocaust. The students then travel to Israel, where a [...]

Don’t change Hatikvah just add a stanza

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-1-12 The venerable Jewish newspaper, the Forward, is pushing for a new Israeli national anthem. Since February, when Supreme Court Justice Salim Jubran, an Israeli Arab, stood respectfully but silently during the playing of the national anthem, the newspaper has been stirring the issue. For Israel’s 64th birthday, the [...]

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