Ideological Crisis in the Religious Right THE ORTHODOX Jewish settlers raise the specter of civil war if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon persists in his plan to disengage from Gaza and part of the West Bank. Sixty rabbis have commanded soldiers…
A Perfect Subject for Comedy
A Woody Allen lookalike, in his own words, is a fairly accurate description of London Jewish standup comedian Ivor Dembina, who was in Israel/Palestine this month for a tour of the chaos and for three performances of his show “It’s…
WAC Youth Perform The Old House
The Old House by Mahmoud Diab Adapted and directed by Hisham Suleiman Performed by the WAC Youth Theatre Group ON September 11 (a date that lends resonance to whatever happens on it), the Amateur Theatre Festival was held at Tzavta, a…
The Unmaking of the Histadrut
In May 2004, Dani Ben Simhon of the Workers Advice Center (WAC) did a study of the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. We excerpt four sections: I. The Introduction; II. The Histadrut’s attitude toward Palestinian workers; III. Its decline during the last decade; and IV. The rise…