Aug 18 2012
Jerusalem ‘Lynching’ Raises Specter Of Anti-Palestinian Terrorism By Zack Beauchamp, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm Two separate attacks on Palestinians civilians Friday morning raise serious questions about rising anti-Palestinian radicalism among Israeli youth. In the first incident, a mob of Israeli Jewish youth surrounded three Palestinians walking in Jerusalem’s Zion Square and assaulted them, …
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Aug 12 2012
Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement By Kirk Lyman-Barner, 08/12/2012 9:20 am Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer with a degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia and a Doctorate in New Testament …
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Aug 08 2012
Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus By Lee C. Camp, 08/08/2012 9:18 am I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have just made myself a fool), because that label has been so co-opted by those, so it …
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Aug 08 2012
The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel By Ruth Marcus, August 7 The rock hit Nili Philipp on the side of her helmet as she biked last year along the main road in this Jerusalem suburb. A few years earlier, the spitting had begun, as Philipp jogged on a road bordering an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. …
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Aug 07 2012
Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012 The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy. Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …
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Aug 07 2012
Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and the Israelites didn’t even get their sandals moist, while the Lord did some expert smiting on the pursuing …
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Aug 07 2012
The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then …
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