OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-16-12 Imagine, if you can, an American Jewish nightmare. What would American Jewish voters do if a presidential candidate they considered good for the country was bad for the Jews – or Israel? Would they vote as “good Americans,” judging governing philosophy, domestic policy preferences, and personal [...]
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Anti-Israel Essay Desecrates Martin Luther King’s Memory but Wins an M.L. King Award
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-22-12 The anti-Zionist blogosphere is celebrating that a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Award to a Jewish high school student who fancies himself a hero for freeing himself from the yoke of supporting Israel. Comparing himself – and his people — to King’s Southern redneck [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 22, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/anti-israel-essay-desecrates-martin-luther-kings-memory-but-wins-an-m-l-king-award/
What Israelis can learn from American Thanksgiving
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-23-11 Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving – a great American invention. As Americans from coast to coast sit down and dig in, eating their turkey and stuffing, their cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie, Israelis should contemplate the holiday’s broadmindedness. This is the all-American day, when blacks and [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 23, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/what-israelis-can-learn-from-american-thanksgiving/
How can Jews be ‘Orthodox’ without living in Israel?
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-28-11 I just experienced a classic American Jewish cultural phenomenon – the deluxe, kosher-for-Passover hotel. For eight days, a New Jersey hotel became a Yiddishe Club Med, mostly for the tzitzes-and-snood set. Consuming mounds of flanken, schools of gefilte fish, cartons of matzoh, our spirits soared. Our hearts gladdened. Our [...]
Posted by giltroy on April 28, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/jews-orthodox-without-living-israel/
American Jews should demand Pollard’s freedom
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 10-20-10 What many long suspected has been confirmed. Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger targeted America’s Jewish spy from the 1980s, Jonathan Jay Pollard, to teach Israel a lesson. One of Weinberger’s assistant secretaries of defense, Dr. Lawrence Korb, recently wrote a letter to President Barack Obama saying: “Based [...]
Posted by giltroy on October 20, 2010
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/american-jews-should-demand-pollards-freedom/
