Gil Troy: March of the Living Canada 2012 Mini Israel Ceremony: Keynote Address, Lay Down Your Arms

March of the Living Canada 2012 Mini Israel Ceremony, Gil Troy Keynote, Lay Down Your Arms Every year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands of students march from Auschwitz to Birkenau honoring the memories of six million Jews and so many other innocent people murdered in the Holocaust. The students then travel to Israel, where a [...]

My temporary visa to the land of the disabled

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Montreal Gazette, 4-30-12 It was the kind of big, fancy cocktail party I attend rarely enough that I enjoy the occasion. I was looking forward to this one because, in addition to liking the honoree and his family, there were half a dozen friends whom I rarely see amid [...]

Gil Troy: My Response to Rashid Khalidi

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Open Zion, The Daily Beast, 4-27-12 Professor Khalidi is anxious to bar me from the debate about the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem’s building site that adjoins an ancient Moslem graveyard by questioning my credentials. And I guess he is right. Offering a symphony of subtlety to a Middle [...]

Gil Troy: Struggling With Jewish Power

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Shalom Hartman Institute, 4-25-12 Gil Troy, a Fellow of the Engaging Israel Project at Shalom Hartman Institute, talks about how, in the context of the current US presidential election, Jews in the US and in Israel must come to grips with power.

Israel at 64: What I Am Celebrating This Year… The Sounds, Smells, Sights, Tastes and Touch of Israel

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Shalom Hartman Institute, 4-22-12 Fellows of the iEngage Project at Shalom Hartman Institute write about what they are celebrating as Israel turns 64:  TAL BECKER: Israel’s People STEVEN M. COHEN: Being a Free People in Our Land YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI: Hebrew Music STUART SCHOFFMAN: The Successes of Zionism GIL [...]

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