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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Don’t change Hatikvah just add a stanza
Posted by giltroy on May 1, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/dont-change-hatikvah-just-add-a-stanza/
No, Israel Isn’t Turning into an Iran-Style Theocracy
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, The New Republic, 2-2-12 The demonizing of Israel, dismissing the democratic Jewish state as a right-wing, religious, racist project, continues. The latest storyline describes ultra-Orthodox Israelis—known in Hebrew as haredim—as medieval Neanderthals rapidly converting Israel into an Iran-style theocracy. This popular caricature encourages those liberals seeking excuses to stop supporting Israel. The [...]
Posted by giltroy on February 2, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/no-israel-isnt-turning-into-an-iran-style-theocracy/
We don’t need Noam Shalit’s sunshine patriotism in politics
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-10-12 Gilad Shalit is home and, we all hope, recovering. Apparently his father, Noam Shalit, has not fully recovered from the experience. It seems he so liked the status of what we should now call celebritus erroneous– celebrity by tragic mistake – that he has decided to exploit [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 10, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/we-dont-need-noam-shalits-sunshine-patriotism-in-politics/
When Dads Are Barred from their Daughters’ Basketball Games – Improvise Reasonable Accommodations
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-3-12 On Sunday night, the Efrata national religious elementary school hosted two other national religious schools – Yehudah HaLevi and Evelina — at a girls’ basketball tournament. Although the hometown heroines from grades three and four got shellacked in the first round 34 to 6, it was [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 3, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/when-dads-are-barred-from-their-daughters-basketball-games-improvise-reasonable-accommodations/
Israeli democracy needs ‘Sharanskyism’ not ‘Liebermania’
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 [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 26, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/israeli-democracy-needs-sharanskyism-not-liebermania/
