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November 22, 2009
- By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Donald Bostrom, a freelance Swedish journalist who wrote an article this summer accusing Israeli officials of trading in Palestinian organs, came to Israel late last month to defend his piece at a conference on the media.Neither Bostrom, who needed a bodyguard because of the stir his article has caused, nor the media came out looking good.At the ...
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November 18, 2009
- A kind reader directed me to The Singing Revolution, a film on Estonians' movement to regain their independence from the Soviet Union, highlighting the special role music played in the sustenance of spirit and solidarity. And also, for me, a film on the double meaning of patriotism, both a shining strength—the indispensable key to independence—and a stupefying weakness, the excuse to elide ...
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November 13, 2009
- Worn out has-been or drama queen? Interpretations of the Palestinian president's threat to quit vary greatly. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn’t run for re-election in the proposed January elections. Back when he was Yasser Arafat’s deputy in the ...
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November 3, 2009
- Hi everyone, I’m really excited about the Peep event I’m doing in Houston tonight. It’s part of the Annual Jewish Books & Arts Fair at the Jewish Community Centre there, and it’s also a special event for 21–40 year olds. You get drinks, snacks, a copy of The Peep Diaries and, best of all of course, an evening with Hal all for only $15! What a deal! What a night. Hope to see you ...
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October 21, 2009
- One of the advantages of being an author in an “exotic” locale is that people visit and want to hear from you as someone who knows the place well. It’s also one of the disadvantages.Last Friday night, I drove out to Ein Kerem to meet one such group of visitors from Reboot, a U.S. organization that brings together mostly liberal – and certainly not conventional-thinking – Jews to discuss ...
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September 11, 2009
- http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/09/11/is-there-sex-and-love-after-50/Here is a posting/excerpt from my novel "Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman" on boomercafe.com, please check it out.
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September 4, 2009
- Palestinians and Israelis take an eternal debate into the classroom, leaving the UN stuck in the middle. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — In the Book of Lamentations, the people of Jerusalem cry out against the destruction of the city: “Is any suffering like my suffering?”The answer, of course, is: No. Ever since, Jeremiah’s phrase has pretty much been the catchphrase of the ...
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August 21, 2009
- Good, old-fashioned murder catches off-guard a country always prepared for warBy Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostTEL BARUCH, Israel — It may surprise you to learn that many Israelis are only now realizing they live in a violent place. And they’re freaking out.Not the terrorist violence for which Israel is something of a byword. The murderous gang beating type of violence. The dismembered women ...
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August 12, 2009
- Hedwig Schwarz, my great-aunt from Horb, Germany, in the beautiful Black Forest, was the lone survivor of deportation in her town. At the old Jewish cemetery in Rexingen, one can find her gravestone set apart, topped with stones left by each respectful visitor who wishes to pay homage.When the Jews were rounded up in Rexingen, in 1941, Hedwig was swept up as well. Her husband Louis was taken ...
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August 11, 2009
- German Jews want 'Mein Kampf' reprinted Country divided by call to republish Hitler's anti-semitic autobiography By Tony Paterson in Berlin Monday, 10 August 2009 Germany's Central Council of Jews has taken the unprecedented step of backing a proposal to republish Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, which has been ...
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