Who do you think of when refugees connected to the Middle Eastern “conflict” are mentioned? The approximately 800,000 Jewish ones from North Africa and the Middle East, of course. Right?
Well, no. The story of the Jews in Arab countries whose lives became increasingly unliveable starting around the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 [...]
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The Middle East and North African refugees
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Deena Levenstein, israel, tagged israel, jewish, jewish refugees, jews, jta, middle east, middle eastern jews, north africa, north african jews, sefardim, sephardic jews on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Col. Richard Kemp on the U.N. Goldstone Report
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Deena Levenstein, News, Video, israel, tagged Anti-Semitism, azza, gaza, goldstone report, idf, israel, israeli army, palestinians, politics, richard kemp, security, u.n., united nations on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I admit I was teary-eyed from watching this video. There are two things that are touching about it. First, what a feeling to actually have someone acting outwardly and proactively supportive of Israel. And, I feel so proud to be part of this country, the country that, according to Col. Richard Kemp, made more effort [...]
Triplets for his three lost sons
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Deena Levenstein, Family, News, israel, tagged jews, israel, terrorism, terrorist attack, itamar, shomron, samaria, politics, life and death, birth, triplets on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(The facts in this post are taken from the Arutz 7 article which you can access here.)
You’ve gotta admit it blows your mind, at least a little, this story.
This poor man lost his wife and three of his seven kids when one of our crazy local terrorists came into their house in the Shomron yishuv [...]
Thinking about Gilad Shalit, the captive Israel soldier
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Deena Levenstein, News, Video, israel, tagged israel, morals, gilad shalit, morality, idf, israel defence force, palestinians, palestine, kidnapping, israeli soldier, kidnapped israeli soldier, terrorists, terrorism on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s because of topics like this that I feel guilty for not keeping up more on the news. Is it not good, at least once a day, to stop by a news site and check the headline?
I say this because I don’t know exactly how things progressed to get to where they are today in [...]
Netanyahu accentuated that Herzl was traditional
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Assimilation, Deena Levenstein, israel, tagged judaism, israel, netanyahu, bibi, israeli prime minister, herzl, herzl day, zionism, unaffiliated jews on August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I just read such an interesting, informative, and even touching speech by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu about Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl’s Jewish identity.
It is quite worth while reading the whole speech. He speaks about how there is a widely accepted idea that Herzl, the father of Zionism, was an unaffiliated Jew. Netanyahu brings proof to show [...]
Hitler’s children: a project
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Art, Contemporary, Deena Levenstein, Video, tagged hitler's children, holocaust, holocaust survivors, jews, nazi descendants, nazis, survivors on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a project going on that brings together children of top Nazis with Holocaust survivors. There is a short video that you can see here that shows interviews with these descendants of some of the worst monster-humans to ever live. It’s heart-wrenching to watch and so interesting.
I may be waiting but not compared to Gilad Shalit
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Deena Levenstein, israel, tagged gilad shalit, israel, perspective, waiting on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are so many things that I want, some of them really badly. But my friend’s status update on facebook this morning definitely put things in perspective for me. He wrote: “Great morning everyone. Just wanted to remind you all that Gilad Shalit is still alive and still in captivity.”
Wow. So true. So profound. So [...]
