Jerusalem Journal

How to Prevent the Spread of Terrorism

charlie — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:39:08 +0000

Part of the shared values and characteristics which make both Israel and America successful stem from the diversity in each country’s population; each is a country of immigrants. The different ethnic, national and religious attributes included in these national fabrics weave together symbiotic and collaborative complements leading to vanguards of invention. However, anyone who has […]

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Timing is Everything

charlie — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 07:37:48 +0000

“To everything there is a season and a purpose under heaven” (Kohelet 3:1-8). Like many, I usually frame my life in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years, and decades. This is my choice, and it is also my choice under which wider framework of time I live in. Is my workday 9-5 or […]

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Making News, Making Noise: Saving Lives in Uganda (Not Another Story About Iran)

charlie — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:05:59 +0000

It probably would not surprise you to know that I used to be a news junky. As a college student attending a class at Barnard called “Mass Media and American Politics,” I learned that the media sets our agenda and that there is no such thing as objective reporting. At that time, I enjoyed going […]

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A Simple Act

charlie — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:07:17 +0000

In April I became the first man arrested in the struggle for gender equality at the Western Wall. To be clear, in this case gender equality does not mean an egalitarian service in which men and women participate equally. Women of the Wall is a women’s prayer group, not an egalitarian prayer group. What they […]

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Call on The Conservative Movement to Enact Exclusive Policies Regarding Membership in The Jewish Community

charlie — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:32:47 +0000

The JTA Story saying that USY dropped the ban on interfaith dating is NOT CORRECT: The USY constitution was amended to speak in positive language, to be more inclusive overall and to include anti-bullying and anti-lashon hara items. USYers in leadership roles are still expected not to inter-date. As the USCJ leadership wrote: “Let us […]

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Power To The People, Not The Politicians

charlie — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:53:47 +0000

When MK Aliza Lavie spoke to the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly last month, she was probably proud to announce that she would be introducing a bill in the Knesset allowing Conservative and Reform rabbis to perform weddings in the Jewish State. However, the announcement sparked harsh criticism and anger. This because MK Lavie’s bill allows […]

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The Ten Days Of Thanks – Express Your Gratitude

charlie — Tue, 13 May 2014 11:25:03 +0000

Israel is a very centralized country. It wasn’t too long ago that there was one government-run television station and the country stood still at 9:00 pm to watch the news each evening. Anyone who has visited Israel will remember the beep-beep-beep coming from the radio every hour on the hour before the headlines are read. […]

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How Our Divided Family Goes to War

charlie — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:30:43 +0000

We all make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes snowball, go out of control and effect many people. They take on a life of their own and have unintended consequences. In 1948, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, exempted 400 exceptional yeshiva students from military service. This was meant as a tribute to the yeshivot that were […]

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Lessons Learned From The Hadassah Hospital Bankruptcy – How Not To Support Israel

charlie — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:10:44 +0000

In the late 1980s I started to become aware of how the Zionist political world works. As I became more involved in Zionist activities as part of the Conservative Movement’s aliyah movement, Tnuat AM, I started dealing with budgets and consequently politics. I was surprised to learn that the Conservative Movement received relatively little funding […]

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Sharon is Out of His Comma: It’s Time To Wake Up

charlie — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:08:34 +0000

On the evening of Ariel Sharon’s funeral, the Israeli nightly news broadcast opened by reporting that IAF jets bombed two targets of terrorist infrastructure in Gaza in retaliation for rockets that were fired into Israel. I could not help but think how ironic it was that the funeral of the person responsible for Israel’s unilateral […]

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