Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

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

Mahzor

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

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

Lower East Side

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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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Justice Department’s Al Qaeda Prosecutions in Jeopardy?

Dec 28th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

I wonder if one year ago (or however long ago the NY Times agreed to a request from the Bush Administration to mothball the Lichtblau-Risen story about NSA spying) Eric Lichtblau could’ve pictured himself one day well on the way to earning his first Pulitzer Prize. In fact, if I were on the Pulitzer [...]

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President Run Amok and His Jolly Old Spooks

Dec 20th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 1

Here’s another example of Bush, Hayden, et al. talking out their behinds about the NSA spying program. This from today’s NYT:

A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the [...]

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Bush: ‘What Do Think I Am…Some Kinda Dictator?’

Dec 20th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

I think George Bush has spoken to the American people more in the past three days than in his entire presidency. A mark of true desperation. I’m guessing that their polling is showing that they’re taking an awful hit–and not just in the obvious Democratic strongholds, but perhaps in their own strongholds.
“I am [...]

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Bush’s Defiant Defense of Absolute Presidential Power

Dec 18th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 2

President Bush’s ringing defense during his Saturday radio address of his executive order permitting the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens without obtaining a warrant (a clear violation of federal statute) is full of fatuousness and disingenuous statements.
Bush to the American people: “it wasn’t illegal and hell, even it was, I only did [...]

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Bush’s Secret Intelligence War

Dec 17th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

The New York Times has dropped a bombshell into the continuing debate about national security, civil liberties and the war on terror. Today’s story indicates that Pres. Bush wrote an executive order in 2002 giving the National Security Agency carte blanche to snoop on American citizens within the U.S. Bush authorized the NSA [...]

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