Monthly Archives: May 2008

Selective Praise, Selective Outrage

May 28, 2008 – 11:19 pm

The front page of today’s New York Times carries a photograph of an American soldier smoking a cigarette. A caption beneath the photo reads, “A Pause Before Beating Back the Taliban” and the caption goes on to explain that U.S. troops recently pushed the Taliban out of a town in the south, “bolstering the …

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A Strange Dichotomy

May 27, 2008 – 1:56 pm

Having recently returned from the middle east, where I went to Ramallah and met Palestinians on their turf, I’ve been thinking about the risk I took, and also about the strange dichotomy that exists in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

In a recent interview, Yoel Benesh, an Israeli businessman whose company, Meditalia, manufactures sauces and spreads with …

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It’s Not Only Me. There are Thousands of Liberian Children Who Have Been Through War

May 21, 2008 – 3:28 pm

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From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

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“My mother told me, ‘My heart is broken to be separated from you, but you will find family in America,’” says Morris Sheriff. “That never left my mind.”

Nattily dressed in a tan suit and a red and …

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I Spent Yesterday Afternoon in Ramallah - and Lived to Tell!

May 21, 2008 – 11:31 am

Seriously, I’m no Brooke Goldstein (no interviews of terrorists!) But yesterday I did travel to Ramallah with Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Peaceworks, a business that brings together individuals from opposing sides of world conflicts, and OneVoice, a movement Lubetzky founded that seeks to promote communication and political change. I’ve written about Mr. Lubetzky for The …

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It’s a Beautiful Life, or at Least it Can Be

May 17, 2008 – 1:09 pm

In this age of peace talks and big ideas, there is something to be said for making a virtue of necessity. I’m writing a piece now about Danny Lubetzky, founder of Peaceworks, an international business specializing in bringing people together from opposing sides of world conflicts, including the Israeli/Palestinian.

I admit to having initially been skeptical …

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Why Secret?

May 15, 2008 – 12:51 am

Last week, the Times of London reported that Robert Malley, one of Barack Obama’s mideast policy advisors, was holding secret meetings with Hamas. This week, al Jazeera released shocking footage of Palestinians in Gaza doing phone banking for Obama. This is not a joke. Neither is the fact that 61 percent of Jewish …

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Barack Obama: In Search of a Savior?

May 7, 2008 – 8:28 pm

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In all the discussion of Barack Obama as the potential savior of our nation, there’s been relatively little attention to the idea that, rather than behaving like a person of strong leadership, Barack Obama seems to have been acting like a real follower for the past twenty years.

Analyses …

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Friendship Between Jewish and Muslim Pharmacists Fuels Giving

May 2, 2008 – 9:41 am

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From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON

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In the early 1980s, Mohammed Saleh got a break that changed his life. He was working as a pharmacist, raising a family in New York City and struggling to get ahead.

A Muslim originally from Bangladesh, Saleh heard about a …

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