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Cofounder of TAVtech, Phil Hayes, said the program allows people to have a positive impact and learn valuable programming skills that are increasingly relevant in today’s economy.
Yaakov Katz concluded his talk in Balche auditorium yesterday evening with some career advice: “I look for someone who is curious. Someone who asks questions. Someone who wants to learn…someone who sees something at the surface and says, you know what I can penetrate that, I can go deeper…” Seeing as how I am an aspiring writer and Katz is the Editor-in-Chief of the renowned Jerusalem Post, it would behoove me to take this sentiment as instruction. Let’s call it a one-sided job interview. Time to penetrate the surface of Katz’ “Israel in a Changing Middle East” talk.
“I think Israel is a nation of contradictions,” Katz said. “It is a country of radical religious extremists; ultra orthodox Jews and religious Muslims … but on the other hand it is the one country in the Middle East that affords equal rights, not just to men and women, but to homosexuals as well.”
The prevalence of the military in Israeli society creates a stigma implicit with refusal to serve, according to Yasmine Yablonko, one of the speakers.
Re: “Letter to the Editor: Israeli and Palestinian Leadership,” Opinion, Dec.1
In her letter, “Israeli and Palestinian leadership,” Sarene Shaked makes an important point: that there is “no moral equivalency” between Israel’s leadership and that of the Palestinians. Without question, Israel lives up to a standard met by few nations throughout the world. But true leaders know that. The real question is, what’s next? For Shaked, it seems the answer is close to nothing.
Re: “Pop Culture, Politics and Perception | Importing Hate,” Blogs, Nov. 4. These past few years, the Middle East has been exploding, figuratively and literally. But there is one country that has made news headlines since its foundation. Israel and her tumultuous relationship with her neighbors, especially Palestine, are at the forefront of the minds of most foreign journalists.
By KAYLEIGH RUBIN
“Do you identify as Jewish or American?”
Over Fall Break, a relative asked me this question during a conversation concerning religion. This immediately puzzled me as I could not understand why the two identities would be – and were forced to be – mutually exclusive. I was puzzled because I could not understand the need nor have the ability-to rank my loyalties. I was puzzled because I never considered myself to be “either/or,” I am and always will be both. I am Jewish and I am American.
To the Editor:
Re: “Students for Justice in Palestine Rally Draws Counterprotest,” News, Nov. 20
Over the past month, Jerusalem has not been safe. On Oct. 22, Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, rammed into a crowd of Israelis with his car, killing a three month old baby and injuring seven civilians. Fourteen days later, on Nov.
By JOSHUA POLLOCK
Yishai Goldflam — a member of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America — discussed media bias, specifically regarding events in the Middle East at a lecture in Anabel Taylor Hall Tuesday. The public’s perception of political events in the Middle East and Israel is often distorted by media bias, according to Goldflam, who spoke during a lecture hosted by the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee. Goldflam said he believes that Israel received a large share of negative bias during last summer’s conflict. “Israel [and the Middle East] is one of the most reported on topics, and I think it’s important to get the right picture or else it distorts the public’s opinion,” he said. “We don’t want to turn people into Israel-supporters, we’re just trying to correct the wrong facts in the news.”
Throughout his presentation, Goldflam showed the audience various news headlines about events in the Middle East.
By MELVIN LI
This summer, Prof. Lauren Monroe, Near Eastern Studies, led six student volunteers at an archaeological dig at the Israeli Biblical excavation site Tel Abel Beth Maacah. The volunteers were drawn from two classes Monroe taught last semester: Archaeology 4800: Archaeology of Gender in Syria-Palestine and Archaeology 2550: Origins of Monotheism. According to Monroe, the trip helped serve as a field component for both classes, giving students a chance to apply what they had learned about ancient Israelite culture to the real world. “[The trip was about] bringing to life aspects of the world in which the Bible and the Book of Monotheism emerged,” Monroe said. “For the students in the gender course, there was a more direct connection because those students were actually studying archaeological methods and then implementing those methods on the field.”
The excavation, held from June 24 to July 22, offered learning opportunities for non-archeology students — mainly those in Archaeology 2550 — as well, according to Monroe.