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There is no hope of brokering peace in the Middle East in this generation because Palestinians are not ready to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, prominent Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi told an audience of 70 at the Harvard Hillel last night...
...speakers during the seminar, journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi, shared with us a few words of advice for young, aspiring journalists. “Don’t buy into conventional wisdom,” Halevi said. “Be above the left and the right, and try to understand what’s going on outside the ideological boxes...
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI Senior writer for the Jerusalem Report; author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist...
...short, Halevi was less an extremist than one of the early media militants who learned to exploit the press for publicity. His literary ambitions and his eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father...
...passionate heart of the book remains the early Brooklyn years, with its accounts of fractious religious sects, wonder rabbis, drug pushers in yarmulkes selling "jointelehs," and the Jewish Press warning of a holocaust of assimilation while it supports a fund drive to circumcise Jews secretly in Russia. Why does Halevi's Borough Park jump with life while his Jerusalem seems strangely sedate? The answer can be found partly in a pithy line he wrote about his father's generation: "Where you came from is more important than where...