By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 7-16-09 I recently attended a plenary session at a major Zionist organization. The plenary was off the record, so I won’t identify the organization. Some speakers invoked “Obama’s way” as a model, marvelling at the extraordinary fundraising and community-building network that U.S. President Barack Obama and his people developed [...]
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Yes we can Zionism
Posted by giltroy on July 24, 2009
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Gil Troy: Open Letter to our Diaspora Affairs Minister
Center Field: Open Letter to our Diaspora Affairs By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 4-19-09 Dear Minister Yuli Edelstein, On April 5, Anshel Pfeffer welcomed you as Diaspora Affairs Minister with a bleak open letter in Ha’aretz, lamenting: “What a pity you’ve been given the emptiest brief of all in Netanyahu’s mammoth cabinet.” Pfeffer called your [...]
Posted by giltroy on April 21, 2009
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Gil Troy: We should all turn toward Israel
Canadian Jewish News, 10-30-08 Five times a year, Israelis witness a strange sight. As they return to work after the first and last day of Sukkot, the first and last day of Passover, and the Shavuout holiday, some visiting North American and European Jews still observe the strictures of the “chag,” the holy day. That [...]
Posted by giltroy on November 2, 2008
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Center Field: Diaspora-Israel relations as bad date
Jerusalem Post, July 27, 2008 The results of the third annual Survey of Contemporary Israeli Attitudes toward World Jewry commissioned by the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem are in, and once again we can proclaim: Israel-Diaspora relations remain less fraternal than we like to believe - and more like a bad date than we really [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 27, 2008
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/center-field-diaspora-israel-relations-as-bad-date/
