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, [...]

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 [...]

My temporary visa to the land of the disabled

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, 4-30-12 It was the kind of big, fancy cocktail party I attend rarely enough that I enjoy the occasion. I was looking forward to this one because, in addition to liking the honoree and his family, there were half a dozen friends whom I rarely see amid [...]

Celebrating Israel’s six great achievements

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-25-12 Rumor has it that mellowness comes with age. Golden agers are who they are. When Brian Mulroney was Canada’s middle-aged Prime Minister during the 1980s, he recalls being more thin-skinned, much less at peace with himself, than his elderly American colleague, President Ronald Reagan. Alas, as [...]

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