Jerusalem Day Belong to All Israelis, not just “Settlers”

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-22-12 The lecturer at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem this Sunday looked like your typical, distinguished, Tel Avivi secular scientist, with an impressive position and a delicious enthusiasm for his “lovely” chemical results.  Further perpetuating the stick-figure impression of him as another far-left, [...]

A Purim “Nahafochu” Reversal: Let’s Reach Out to Christians

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 3-6-12 Our first year in Jerusalem, I heard that neighborhood kids were ringing the doorbell of the local church, then cursing into the intercom. I was appalled. We did not establish a Jewish state to do to “them” what “they” did to us – but to model [...]

Abbas the Masquerading Moderate Caricatures a Hellish Jerusalem

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 [...]

If Mayor Barkat Fires Rachel Azaria He will Betray Zionist Jerusalem

OP-EDS & REVIEWS By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 10-25-11 Related: J’lem mayor fires coalition member over court petition, JPost, 10-21-11 If Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat follows through on his threat to fire City Councillor Rachel Azaria from the coalition and take away her important portfolios of early childhood education and community councils, he will be [...]

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, [...]

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