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While the two might seem to have some common ground—both are Jewish civil libertarians who consider themselves member of the left—they diverge sharply when it comes to Israel. Chomsky, a cognitive linguistic, is noted for his heated criticisms of both the Jewish state and American foreign policy, while Dershowitz has emerged as one of Israel's most prominent ideological supporters in the United States...
...discussion—which attracted about 50 people—focused on the past. He called the Nakba a “self-inflicted wound” brought on by Palestinian leaders in the 1930s and 1940s, who, he said, refused to accept the existence of a Jewish state when they were offered a two-state compromise. “Had the Palestinian leadership accepted the two-state solution of 1938, they would have a very large Palestinian land on what is today probably 70 percent of Israel,” Dershowitz said. “And a million Jews...
...think it's a universal feeling. It doesn't matter if you're Jewish or Buddhist or Christian or you don't believe...
Charlie I. Miller ’08 got his start in filmmaking in eighth grade. Always interested in his Jewish heritage, Miller became fascinated by the Jewish steam baths, or shvitz. One documentary later, Miller had laid the foundations for a career of turning personal passions into art. Several years after his first foray into filmmaking, Miller has a multi-faceted Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) thesis behind him and an undergraduate education’s worth of maturity...
...here in Galilee - where Druze and Arab villages perch on the same scrubby ridgelines as Jewish towns, all within easy reach of Hizballah rockets, and the region's peoples continue to squabble over the mantle of historic victimhood - young Americans committed to God and Zion may find comfort in a world of Death-eaters and wizards...