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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Can Amir Peretz Win?

Dec 1st, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Dan Ben Simon, a senior political columnist for Israel’s Haaretz, has written an extremely upbeat assessment of Amir Peretz’s chances of winning the upcoming Knesset election. It is featured at the Israel Policy Forum website. Ben Simon isn’t just talking about Peretz improving Labor’s showing in the next Knesset, he’s saying he thinks [...]

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Likud is Down and Peres is Out

Dec 1st, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 3

Peres telling the world he’s with Arik. Is this man looking like a walking political cadaver? (credit: AP)
Peres: I’m Outa Here
As usual over the past month, yesterday had tons of fast-paced developments on the Israeli political scene. Peres made public the worst kept secret of Israeli politics–that he’s done with Labor and [...]

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Peres Expected to Abandon Labor

Nov 30th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Posing with FC Barcelona soccer shirt before game against Israeli team: traitor to his Party, traitor to his team? (credit: AP)
Shimon Peres has done just about everything he can to telegraph he’s leaving the Israeli Labor Party for Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima except making the actual announcement. First, there were the hours of [...]

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Sharon Leaving Likud?

Nov 20th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Seems like Israelis are peering at tea leaves almost as intently regarding Ariel Sharon’s future as Washington, DC is regarding the identity of Bob Woodward’s Plamegate source. Just as everyone here has a theory about who Deep Throat II is, everyone in Israel knows what Sharon will do. He’ll bolt Likud and form [...]

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