“Don’t take our girls”

Al Jazeera English, January 29, 2011 Not long after religious nationalists held a rally in Bat Yam under the banner of “Jewish girls for the Jewish people,” a group of rabbis’ wives published a letter urging Jewish women not to date Arab men. Jewish-Palestinian couples remain uncommon here in Israel. But both the rally and …

Trauma unit

Review of Anita Diamant’s Day After Night Haaretz, December 4, 2009 After the darkness of the Shoah, in the last days of the British Mandate, waves of Jewish immigrants flooded Palestine’s shores. Their numbers far exceeded the quotas set by the British, and these new arrivals — most coming by boat from Europe, a few …