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, [...]
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The tragedy of it all — The tragic story of Lee Gabriella Vatkin
Posted by giltroy on August 18, 2011
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Loyalty acts, not loyalty oaths
By GIL TROY Jerusalem Post, 10-13-10 Photo by: lior Mizrahi (AP) We need a renewed covenant between the country’s citizens and its government – not meaningless mouthings targeting Israel’s Arabs. Trying to preserve Israel’s Jewish and democratic character by imposing loyalty oaths like the one the Netanyahu government is proposing makes as much sense as [...]
Posted by giltroy on October 13, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/loyalty-acts-not-loyalty-oaths/
The double double standard against Israel
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 12-6-09 Excerpt from a testimony I will give on Monday at hearings at the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism. Allow me a personal note – I hate this topic. I take no joy in pointing out the ugly anti-Semitism afflicting our world today. That the problem is so serious [...]
Posted by giltroy on December 7, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/the-double-double-standard-against-israel/
Jewish joy in the ghetto needs your help
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 11-12-09 The great financial meltdown of 2008 continues to wreak havoc, causing the great organizational shakedown of 2009. We should take advantage of these hard times to close institutions that only survive thanks to inertia or clever politicking. But we must ensure that worthy organizations aren’t wiped out, too. [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 12, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/ghetto-shul/
Education cuts are hasty and shortsighted
By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 6-10-09 In July, 2007, amid much fanfare, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Board of Jewish Education became the Centre for Enhancement of Jewish Education, widely called the Mercaz – Hebrew for “centre.”“The name says what the priorities are,” the Mercaz chair Lou Greenbaum exulted. This spring, less than [...]
Posted by giltroy on June 10, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/education-cuts/
