OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 2-28-12 Reading the news, you would think that Mahmoud Abbas’s real first name is “The Moderate” and Benjamin Netanyahu’s real last name is “the Extremist.” Googling the words “Abbas” and “Moderate” yields 4.47 million hits, while “Netanyahu” and “Moderate” get 2.53 million hits. “Abbas” and “Extremism” yield [...]
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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/
iEngage: Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Haredi Wolf?
OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, iEngage — Shalom Hartman Institute, 2-1-12 The reddening of Israel, dismissing the Jewish state as a right-wing, religious, Republican project, increasingly foreign to cultured, blue-state Democrats, continues. The latest storyline describes ultra-Orthodox Israelis - haredim - as medieval Neanderthals rapidly converting Israel into an Iran-style theocracy. This popular caricature encourages those liberals [...]
Posted by giltroy on February 1, 2012
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/iengage-who-is-afraid-of-the-big-bad-haredi-wolf/
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/
