JPost.com - Gil Troy Reporter

Israelis shouldn’t honor delegitimizers!

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:21:12 GMT

Center Field: Cliff May is justifiably threatening not to hold his organization’s annual policy summit at the Newseum.

‘Price tags’: Morally bankrupt, politically foolish

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:37:40 GMT

Center Field: Last month, when we celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut, we talked mostly about Israel’s “atzmaut,” independence.

‘The Gatekeepers’: Speaking spooks’ coup d’etat

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:42:22 GMT

Controversy over Oscar-nominated documentary continues; criticism over distortions, retired Shin Bet heads' legitimate.

Elevate Robinson’s Arch – but not physically

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:30:23 GMT

Our mantra should be: Elevate “the Robinson’s Arch area” spiritually and popularly; just don’t elevate it physically.

Honoring the ‘Yom-Ha’s in an age of delegitimization

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:12:10 GMT

Citizens continue to confront "delegitimization" by observing the "three modern moments that have become sacred."

Center field: Why I am not ‘Orthodox’ – or ‘secular’

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:16:48 GMT

I love Jewish tradition’s beauty and respect its power. I understand that some rigidity keeps continuity – but I prefer the Israeli terms “religious” or “traditional.”

Celebrating our freedom to flourish

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:52:20 GMT

We find meaning not in the restrictions of the holiday, but in our power to live as Jews.

Center Field: The government should fight bigotry

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:09:30 GMT

One teacher was Jewish another was Arab, and they drove together naturally, happily, until they were attacked.

AIPAC: The ‘chosen people’ and the 'elected people'

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:32:13 GMT

CENTER FIELD: The Israel-bashers take all that is good in Israel and try turning it into something manipulative and nefarious.

Center Field: Stop calling critics anti-Israel

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:38:51 GMT

When Obama visits Israel, we will all benefit by celebrating the existential bonds rather than exaggerating the tensions.

Center Field: Lead, Bibi, lead!

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:26:58 GMT

Despite all the Likud lamentations, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should see the 2013 election results as a gift.

Haredi grinches should stop shouting at the world

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:31:46 GMT

Center Field: Restauranteurs offering kosher New Year’s Eve celebrations inviting Haifa’s multicultural residents to eat together find their kashrut certificates threatened for countenancing "idol worship."

Center field: Debate prep 2012: For voters and candidates

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:12:25 GMT

How lucky Israelis are that in the Jewish state politics is substantive, straightforward, serious, and scrupulous...

Rx Elul: Returning, repenting and reimagining

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:50:10 GMT

Center Field: Building toward the Days of Awe, Jews impose on themselves a period of rupture, repentance, recovery and rebirth, which requires resilience and strengthens it.

Academics examine Vitamin B10 – Birthright’s secret

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:00:52 GMT

Last week, more than 100 academics gathered at Brandeis University to analyze Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Let’s reach out to Christians on Purim

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:54:04 GMT

We still need non-Jews, even with a sovereign Jewish state.

Israel doesn’t need ‘sunshine patriotism’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:34:07 GMT

Noam Schalit has turned the John F. Kennedy dictum on its head, asking what his country can do for him.

What Israelis can learn from Thanksgiving

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:35:54 GMT

Center Field: Thanksgiving’s charms evoke the many magical, communal moments punctuating Israel’s calendar.

Saving ‘Private’ Schalit and the defenseless Jewish state

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:36:53 GMT

The world, it seems, wants a defenseless Jewish state, one that wouldn’t incarcerate those responsible for mass murderer.

Center Field: Stop rockets by seizing Palestinian territory

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:24:12 GMT

Targeted actions depriving Gaza of territory in response to attacks will put a specific price tag on each rocket and terror attack.

A Zionist advocacy timetable for the next five weeks

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:45:33 GMT

We can turn the UN’s "Palestine Season" into another empty victory for the Palestinians. We should stop dreading this fall.

The tragedy of it all

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:44:38 GMT

This is the story of a beautiful, brilliant girl who fell through the cracks and slipped into the dark abyss that is the drug scene in Jerusalem.

Center field: social protests – a Zionist success, failure

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:49:18 GMT

Just as protesters have been wise to wave the Israeli flag, they should brandish tracts from the Zionist library, demonstrating their wisdom.

Rabbi Hartman’s heartfelt answer to ‘heartless rabbis’

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:29:56 GMT

The media confused this defense of the rabbis with a defense of that hateful book, further publicizing it.

Flash! Yale will study anti-Semitism

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:51:04 GMT

Center Field: After canceling one initiative, the Ivy League university is now launching a new one.

Can Obama recognize the ‘Nakba’ nakba?

Tue, 17 May 2011 23:43:46 GMT

Center Field: The harsh realities of the Middle East have contradicted President Barack Obama's fanciful notions.

Dead terrorists society

Tue, 03 May 2011 23:30:40 GMT

Lessons from Osama bin Laden's biography.

Center Field: Why do we need a Jewish state anyway?

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:57:25 GMT

Newsflash: Theodor Herzl’s Europe is gone. Most Jews today live in welcoming, open, civil societies like the US and Canada.

Center Field: Shabbat + humous = a new Zionist vision

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:04:50 GMT

Schaefer was a Brown University student from S. California who survived 3 years in an IDF combat unit only to be killed by a drunk driver.

The Palestinian Gandhi

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:00:54 GMT

Sari Nusseibeh urges combatants in the local conflict to affirm their common humanity, choosing life over rocks.

Cultivating democracy, Reagan- and Sharansky-style

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:37:30 GMT

Two events show link between freedom and democracy: late US president’s 100th birthday and Jewish Agency chairman’s release from gulag.

After Arizona: Israelis, Americans must make democracy work

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:32:22 GMT

Israelis should reflect on the harshness of their political culture which makes American politics look like a tea party – in the old-fashioned sense.

The Israel Rorschach test: Real democracy or bogeyman?

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:35:40 GMT

Center Field: Too many treat Israel as a monster nation, wherein each misstep proves its illegitimacy.

Center Field: Settlement subtleties: Not all are the same

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:51:17 GMT

Barack Obama and his followers talk constantly about “The Settlements.” Obsessing over this pretends the conflict began in 1967.

A bias that comes with the territory

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:26:06 GMT

Gideon Levy has reproduced a series of hit-and-run columns dispatched from Gaza that bash at the problem without solving it.

Obama the president is not Alexander the Great

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:26:34 GMT

Obama wants to solve the conflict by cutting through what seems to be the Gordian knot, the obstacle to peace: Israeli intransigence.

Center Field: And the prize goes to...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:22:00 GMT

Eli Yishai seized the 'Amir Peretz' prize for his blunder during the Biden visit, for which he should be fired.