By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-19-09 The great Israeli disconnect is the chasm between what you experience living in Israel day to day and what you read about Israel in headlines day after day. Life in Israel is far calmer, safer, smoother and lovelier than the media coverage - pro or con - suggests. The constant bleating [...]
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Culinary therapy: tabbouleh wars offer a taste of normalcy
Posted by giltroy on November 19, 2009
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/culinary-therapy/
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
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/gil-troy-we-should-all-turn-toward-israel/
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/
Gil Troy at Hadassah’s 94th Annual Convention
‘Think of Zionism as an answer for materialism’ By JUDY SIEGEL, THE JERUSALEM POST, LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2008 The growing materialism and “meaninglessness” in much of American Jewry could be fought with teaching Zionism by creating savings accounts for children and teenagers to be used for eventual trips to Israel, suggested McGill University history [...]
Posted by giltroy on July 16, 2008
http://giltroyzionism.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/gil-troy-at-hadassahs-94th-annual-convention/
