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 [...]
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When Dads Are Barred from their Daughters’ Basketball Games – Improvise Reasonable Accommodations
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/
A Zionist advocacy timetable for the next five weeks
OP-EDS & REVIEWS We can turn the UN’s “Palestine Season” into another empty victory for the Palestinians. We should stop dreading this fall By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 8-23-11 The writer is Professor of History at McGill University and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem. The author of Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, [...]
Posted by giltroy on August 23, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/zionist-advocacy-timetable-next-five-weeks/
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/
Oases of Israel excellence at IASA and elsewhere
By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 1-19-11 Tragically, an Israeli epidemic of mediocre teachers, undisciplined students, unsupportive parents, unyielding bureaucrats and unchallenging curricula is spawning many dysfunctional classrooms and failing schools. Although we also see fabulous teachers, stimulating classrooms and well-run schools, the educational mediocrity my children have experienced has been our greatest disappointment in Israel. Shrieking teachers, [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 19, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/oases-of-israel-excellence-at-iasa-and-elsewhere/
Needed: A New Jewish Civics Course
By Gil Troy, The New York Jewish Week, 1-11-11 If 2000-2010 was the decade of delegitimization, when Palestinian attacks on Israel’s existence gained renewed traction, 2010 was the year of delegitimization-lite. More and more Jews responded to the relentless criticism of Israel by internalizing it. True, most rejected the radical caricature of Israel as a [...]
Posted by giltroy on January 11, 2011
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/needed-a-new-jewish-civics-course/
