At 7:00am California time on September 11, 2001, I was at home in Los Angeles, still in bed, when the phone rang. It was my mother, calling from Denver: "turn on your television, something terrible is happening in New York" were all the words she could choke out. Confused, we got up, turned on...
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I attended the 2011 Israeli Presidential Conference last week. Things have been busy, I didn't get a chance to write about it until now. They had a special session for bloggers, which was pretty cool. We bloggers often feel we don't get much respect compared with the traditional media. Of course, compared with the...
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Last Thursday (May 19), US President Barack Obama gave a very pro-Israel speech (the full text of his speech is available online here). In his speech Obama: Acknowledged Israel's proper concerns about terrorist attacks Said Palestinians had walked away from talks Said Palestinian efforts to delegitimize Israel or unilaterally declare a state would not...
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People in America are celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. Many in Israel, especially including our Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are wringing their hands of the reconciliation between the two leading Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas. Personally, I am neither as joyful as many of my American friends, nor as upset as many...
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Over 3,000 years ago the Jewish people escaped oppression in Egypt. Today the people of Egypt are escaping their own oppression. They are crying out for freedom, desperate to get rid of their own "Pharaoh." As Jews who have "been there," we rightfully should be cheering the Egyptian people on in their quest for...
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mohamed1 I have a friend I met through blogging, Mo-ha-med of the Traveller Within, who lives in Cairo. His blog is down now as Egypt has shut down the internet. However, I captured a cache of his most recent post from January 25 which includes a link to flickr where you can see the...
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