Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

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New York Public Library

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Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

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Torah as music

Ben Heine

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ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

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Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

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David Grossman

Ben Heine

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Eldrige Street shul

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Dove

Ben Heine

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Two birds

Hoda Jamal

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Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

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Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

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Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

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Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

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Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

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Jewish Peace Groups Discuss Merger

Jun 6th, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 4

For months, I’ve been following the plans for a possible new progressive alternative to AIPAC being formed within the American Jewish community. I was tremendously excited when George Soros was named as a possible supporter and funder. When he backed out (foolishly in my opinion), I thought the idea was likely dead. [...]

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Rashid Khalidi on Palestinian Unity Government

Mar 26th, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 1

Brit Tzedek hosted a conference call with Rashid Khalidi today that was most interesting. I was most impressed with how acute his thinking is on the conflict. This is the kind of person who could’ve been a prominent international lawyer or even foreign policy wonk if he’d chosen to be. Not the [...]

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Israeli Foreign Ministry Counter-Attack Against U.S. Refusenik Tour?

Feb 14th, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Those following this blog will know of the Los Angeles Israeli consul general report scurrilously accusing the refusenik groups Combatants for Peace and Breaking the Silence of financing their U.S. tours with U.S. Palestinian funding. The report also claimed the refuseniks were misleading American college students into believing that the former represented the Israeli [...]

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IDF Refuseniks on Dave Ross Radio Show

Feb 11th, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 1

Brit Tzedek has sponsored a 22 city U.S. tour of the Israeli refusenik group, Combatants for Peace. Shimon Katz and Sulaiman al Hamri reached Seattle this past week for the tour’s final stop and spoke at Seattle University, Temple DeHirsch Sinai and the University of Washington Hillel. I was responsible for media outreach [...]

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JTA Publishes First Story on Israeli Foreign Ministry Attack on Refusenik Groups

Feb 2nd, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 0

JTA published today a mini-story on the Los Angeles Israeli consul general’s report savagely criticizing Israeli refusenik groups for speaking in the U.S. against the Israeli Occupation. Unfortunately, the impetus for their story came from a rambling press release by Mort Klein of the ZOA full of scurrilous propaganda against the Union of Progressive [...]

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Brit Tzedek Calls Israeli Foreign Ministry Report ‘Utter Falsity’

Jan 31st, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 3

Headline of scurrilous Yediot article: “U.S. Palestinian Groups Bankroll Refuseniks” (scan courtesy Amir Terkel)
Thanks especially to Amir Terkel (and also Judith Kolokoff), I was the first news source outside Israel to report that Israel’s Los Angeles consul general, Ehud Danoch, smeared Brit Tzedek, Combatants for Peace, and Breaking the Silence, accusing their national tours of [...]

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Palestinian Militant Becomes Warrior for Peace Even As Israeli Border Police Kill Daughter

Jan 23rd, 2007 by Richard Silverstein | 1

There is much individual suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more often than not I write less about individual suffering and more about broad concepts and analysis of policy. Today’s post returns to the theme of individual suffering.
I am a member of Brit Tzedek. As such I do various tasks on behalf [...]

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Brit Tzedek Hosts DC ‘National Advocacy Days’ June 18-20th

May 26th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 2

If you’re sick and tired of a dithering U.S. Mideast policy; if you’re sick of ceding American Jewry’s voice on the Israel-Palestine conflict to groups like Aipac; if you want to see bold initiatives for peace–consider joining Brit Tzedek’s National Advocacy Days in Washington, DC on June 18-20th. You will be educated by talks [...]

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400 U.S. Rabbis Tell Bush Not to Criminalize Hamas

Mar 7th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 1

Aipac might like America to believe that Jews march in lockstep with their hard-right views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But I’m pleased to say that Brit Tzedek V’Shalom, the national Jewish group advocating for Israeli-Palestinian peace, is marching to a different beat. It organized a national effort among rabbis to tell President Bush [...]

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