Tag Archives: Jodi Rudoren

tribal soccer: casting a giant shadow

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Dave

Nationalism as catch-all cesspool for the unbridled inferiority complex. But, compared to the anti-Semitism among European soccer afficionados it could be chalked up as trivial, but whenever the context is Israel, it attracts toxic waste. The Babson college soccer games … Continue reading →

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like archie bunkers: all in the (electoral) family

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Dave

… It wasn’t exactly a Seinfeld election. When the Dow Jones Industrial average ended the decade of the 1970′s exactly where it had begun, it did not mean nothing happened. In fact, the groundwork was laid for the dramatic changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Bank of Israel, Gimpel Gate, Jodi Rudoren, john french sloan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Naftali Bennett, Natasha Mozgovaya, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid | Leave a comment

rapid lapid: end of the mexican standoff

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Dave

Yet, again a new Israeli leader emerges.A brand new shiny? A flash in the pan love affair in US media with the TV celebrity. This is not the same as the favorable profiles of Netanyahu when he first emerged as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Hanin Zoabi, Jodi Rudoren, M.C. Escher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ono Academic College, Professor Brown Israel Democracy Institute, Tommy Lapid, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party, Zahava Gal-On | Leave a comment

Israel elections: problems confronting self image…

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Dave

…Completely ignored as a campaign theme was the thorny issue of the Arab peace effort, such as it is, and the deep seated anxiety that besets Israel with regard to what other nations say and think rather that on Israel’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Edud Olmert, Histradut Trade Union, Israel Election 2013 results, Jodi Rudoren, Jonathan Pollard spy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Hanin Zuabi, MK Michael Ben Ari, Naftali Bennett, Netanyahu Bar Ilan speech, Rafi Eitan, shaul mofaz, Steven Plaut, Tal law exemption, Yair Lapid | Leave a comment

stuck in the in-between space

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Dave

Clearly, the kind of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Israel easily spilling, absurdly, into a kind of biological racism is not endemic to the Arab world in the same way that characterized the Jewish experience in Europe from east to … Continue reading →