OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 3-21-12 I feel cranky. There are so many triumphal Jerusalem Marathon stories in the papers. Even Ha’aretz, which could find the Good Samaritan’s dark underside if he called himself Zionist, gushed. My story, sadly, is darker, although it has many streaks of light too.Friday Marathon day was glorious. With traffic [...]
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From marathon man to Hadassah hospital: The light and dark sides of the Jerusalem marathon
Posted by giltroy on March 21, 2012
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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/
The tragedy of it all — The tragic story of Lee Gabriella Vatkin
OP-EDS & REVIEWS This is the story of a beautiful, brilliant girl who fell through the cracks and slipped into the dark abyss that is the drug scene in Jerusalem By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post Magazine, 8-18-11 The death last year of Lee Gabriella Vatkin, the 16- year-old daughter of Fiona Kanter and Yehuda Vatkin, [...]
Posted by giltroy on August 18, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/the-tragedy-of-it-all-lee-gabriella-vatkin/
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/
