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Steve and Yoram discuss the Jewish people. Individual and communal responsibility and the future destiny of the nation.
By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror
I had the great good fortune and privilege to study with one of the most significant Media commentators of our era-Professor Neil Postman. I studied with him for my PhD at New York University in the Media Ecology program that he originated and ran. I would like to put some of what I have been writing about in these blogs into some historic context. Some of the basic themes dealt with are derived from Postman’s classic book “Technopoly: Surrender of Culture to Technology”, New York, Vintage Books, 1993. What Postman deals with is at least two decades old and during these 20 years or so there have been some modest and tentative changes in the classroom but not much in the churches and synagogues and the pews.
This is a special illustration by international artist Phillip Ratner for Israelseen. Enjoy the work
The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s (rather than a geographic delineation) called the Palestinians, specifically for political gain.
By Yoram Getzler,
The most basic truth that can be expressed in an investigation of any war, including the war in Gaza which the UNHRC, the Goldstone Report investigated is expressed in the term “crimes against humanity”. The basic truth is all war is by its nature a “crime against humanity” and involves a “violation of human rights”!
(Jerusalem) –Robert Bernstein, the founder of Human Rights Watch, has published a very important criticism of the organization in the NY Times. In declaring his decision to “publicly join the group’s critics”, Bernstein endorses the conclusion that HRW has lost all credibility over the Middle East.
