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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Lebanon’s Tragedy Writ Small: A Village Eradicated, a Family Displaced

Jul 27th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 1

Jackie Northam produced a powerful and tragic story (hear audio) for NPR today about a single Lebanese family from the southern Lebanese village of Srifa and their displacement and the town’s wholesale destruction. She interviewed the family at a Beirut school which housed many other families seeking refuge from the fighting. The mother, [...]

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Survivors of Israeli Dead Yearn to Believe Loved Ones Did Not Die in Vain

Jul 27th, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Funeral of Yiftah Schreier, killed at Maroun al-Ras (photo: Jini)
NPR’s Israel correspondent, Linda Gradstein, conducted a heart-wrenching interview with the father of a 21 year-old IDF soldier killed yesterday in southern Lebanon. Ami Schreier [Haaretz spells the name 'Schreier' and NPR, 'Shreier], the father, beseeched prime minister Olmert to continue to prosecute the war [...]

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Voting Rights Bill Held Hostage by Southern Republican Holdouts

Jun 22nd, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 0

It surely must be a mark of how rudderless and flailing the Republican House caucus is that they’d let a small rump group of white Southerners led by the likes of ‘charming’ Lynn Westmoreland hold hostage the Voting Rights Bill. It was supposed to have had smooth sailing through Congressional passage today. But [...]

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Port Security, Military Analysts Call Fear of Port Attack Abetted by Dubai ‘Ludicrous’

Mar 1st, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 0

NPR’s Adam Davidson reports tonight (audio) that many U.S. ports lease terminals to foreign companies and that some of these companies are in turn owned by their respective governments. In addition, he points out that the New York Container Terminal at Howland Hook in Staten Island is operated by a Chinese company owned by [...]

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NPR’s Daniel Schorr Decries Xenophobia in Ports Dispute

Feb 22nd, 2006 by Richard Silverstein | 5

For the life of me, I don’t understand the relative uniformity of opposition among the progressive blog and media community to the Dubai ports deal. The only bloggers besides myself whom I’ve found who support the deal are Dennis the Peasant (a conservative with heart–he detests Pajamas Media and that earns him points in [...]

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CPB Chair Cheryl Halpern, Hard-Right Pro-Israel Ideologue

Dec 5th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

I’ve been following the CPB scandal involving Ken Tomlinson for the past eight months or so. It’s developed quite nicely and fits in comfortably with all the other Republican scandals involving Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, Scooter Libby, et al. But my interest really piqued when I read that Cheryl Halpern, CPB’s board chair [...]

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