Recently added articles from The Jerusalem Report:
Letters
May 25, 2009 ... On Disproportionality Having read Anne Roiphe's piece "On Disproportionality" (April27), I am prompted to ask: if a peaceful and just two-statearrangement were to be reached, who would guarantee that thePalestinians and their cohorts would accept ironclad monitoring ofthe ...
14 Days
May 25, 2009 ... TERROR CELL: Security forces have smashed an Israeli Arab terrorcell planning a wave of attacks, it was reported late April. Thecell included five Arab citizens of northern Israel from 19 to 21years old and two minors, who allegedly planned to carry outbombings and ...
The State of Tel Aviv
May 25, 2009 ... On a warm, windy day in April 1909, 66 families gathered on thesand dunes on the Mediterranean seashore, just north of the ancientArab city of Jaffa, to draw lots for the plots of land that wouldform the first city in modern history with a Jewish majority. Could they have ...
The Hidden Beauty of Bauhaus
May 25, 2009 ... Strolling along the streets of Tel Aviv you can't miss them:resting on pillars and boasting small protruding balconies, thethree-story buildings range in color from pristine white to a shadethat brings to mind flaking moldy bread. Walking past the rows ofnear-identical structures ...
Through Their Eyes
May 25, 2009 ... A Hive of Creativity Every morning, Yoram Kaniuk takes his morning croissant andcappuccino at the same sedate cafe across from the playground atthe corner of Bilu and Hashmonaim streets in the heart of oldgentrified Tel Aviv. It's just a few blocks away from the ...
City Lines
May 25, 2009 ... The old, worn-out Bialik School stands on 49 Ha'aliya Street insouth Tel Aviv. The barred, shuttered windows look as though theyhaven't been opened for many days. Crowds of people wait for thebus on the crumbling sidewalk in front of the school. At recess,kids of all ages in jeans ...
Tales from the Old Town
May 25, 2009 ... Days of Light and Magic: A Hundred and One Tales of the EarlyYears of Tel Aviv (1909-1931); (Hebrew); Ruvik Rosenthatl; YediotAhranot Press, Sifrei Hemed; Tel Aviv; 238 pgs; 128 shekels The Lottery Akiva Arie Weiss stood close to the tight knot of perspiringpeople, his ...
Between City and Sea
May 25, 2009 ... It is a warm, breezy April morning at the renewed Tel Aviv port.With winter a recent memory, pale-skinned coffee drinkers sitoutside on the boardwalk cafes, taking advantage of the risingtemperatures while reading newspapers from behind their sunglasses.Shoppers stroll leisurely ...
Desperately Seeking Parking
May 25, 2009 ... In what has become one of the most frequently viewed YouTubevideos in Israel, a scene from "The Downfall," a 2004 German filmabout Adolf Hitler's final days in his bunker, is superimposed witha faux-translation into Hebrew. As the character playing Hitlerrants and raves in ...
Writing the White City
May 25, 2009 ... Tel Aviv Short Stories Shelly Goldman and Joanna Yehiel (eds.)Ang-Lit. Press 501 pages; 80 shekels / $23.99 My Manchester primary school had a colorful way of awardingachievement at its annual sports day. They gave small clothrosettes as prizes: red for first, blue for second, ...
A City's Beauty in the Eye of Its Beholder
May 25, 2009 ... Because of a scheduled meeting, Ruvik Rosenthal, author,journalist and quintessential Tel Avivian, is being interviewed,bemusedly, in a Jerusalem coffee shop. "I visit here often," hesays, but he makes it very clear that, unlike the medieval Spanish-Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi, who ...
The View from the East
May 25, 2009 ... "Jerusalem is important, and Tel Aviv isn't worth anything. Youcan have a good time in Tel Aviv, but Tel Aviv is really ugly." My twin daughters are in their room, preaching gospel to theirfriends who have come on a visit from the ugly city. Several yearsago, we left Tel Aviv ...
The Shield of David
May 25, 2009 ... At around 11 o'clock on the morning of April 7, a Blue Sparrowmissile designed to mimic an Iranian Shihab 3 was fired over theMediterranean. The visibility was poor, and the Blue Sparrow hadradar-evading capabilities the Shihab does not yet possess. Yet within seconds it was ...
Ode to the Women Who Got Away
May 25, 2009 ... I am terrified of thunder. My mother thinks its rumbles triggerin me memories of the sound of bombs falling. She was pregnant withme during the 1967 war and remembers that whenever a bomb fell shewould feel me kick inside her. During most of her pregnancy my parents were in ...
This Recession Is a Joke!
May 25, 2009 ... Lost your job? Or afraid you might? Lost half your savings?Can't sell your house? Your business is going bust? Your customersaren't paying you? What a laugh. Is that crude and insensitive? I call to the stand two psychologists. University of Northampton psychologist ...
Demystifying anti-Semitism
May 25, 2009 ... While visiting the Majdanek concen-tration camp in Poland, anIsraeli high-school student reflects on how learning about the Nazihorrors may affect the way Israelis perceive the suffering ofothers. "When we see an Arab home demolished by the army on thenews we say it's not that bad, ...
Richard Pratt 1934-2009
May 25, 2009 ... Australian industrialist and philanthropist Richard Pratt, whodied of cancer in Melbourne on April 28 at age 74, was praised byPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that "Israel and theJewish people had lost a great friend and supporter." Australia'sPrime Minister Kevin Rudd, ...
Removing the Old for the Sake of the New
May 25, 2009 ... The Torah portion Behukotai is founded on the idea that ourlives, as individuals and as a people, develop through makingmeaningful choices. Sometimes our choice is stark - between a rightand wrong action. But often we must choose within more subtle andamorphous realms. We must ...
The Tip of the Iceberg
May 25, 2009 ... The past four months have not been easy for Egypt's PresidentHosni Mubarak. First there was the Israeli invasion of Gaza and thechorus of regional criticism of Egypt's role, then the challengesposed by new administrations in Washington and Jerusalem, andfinally the uncovering of an ...
Building on Durban 2
May 25, 2009 ... In many ways, the recently concluded Durban Review Conference inGeneva was the opposite of the first U.N.- sponsored "WorldConference on Racism" held in Durban in 2001, marking a majorvictory for human rights and a setback for attempts to demonizeIsrael. But it was only one ...