Renee Garfinkel

If you've ever had contact with universitites, take the time to read Brett Stephens' Stanford address to their new Israel Studies program. It's worth your time. Here's the Link: sapirjournal.org/aspiration-ii/… #university, #antizionism, #logic

Acclaimed author of the classic, "Getting to Yes!", William Ury, talks about what he has learned from 50 years of negotiating conflict. newbooksnetwork.com/possible

Check out your therapist's politics before you commit: jpost.com/opinion/articl…

Francesca Albanese: “It will be hard to prove or disprove this number…. 380,000 Palestinian infants under 5 got killed” Facts: In 2023, the total number of infants under 5 living in Gaza was 340,000. These are the “scholars” and “experts” of the UN… What a SCAM

Some uncomfortable truths about Muslims and slavery from the late great Christopher Hitchens. Galloway’s face is a picture 😂

Dalia Zaida is an Egyptian Middle East scholar whose insights are important and worth your time to read jcpa.org/if-palestine-i…

Bringing justice where there had been betrayal jpost.com/opinion/articl…

“Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board, My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days. On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival. For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels. So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha. This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities. You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered. Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial. This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.” @EmilyDamari1

Trust is the foundation of every relationship, including democracy: jpost.com/opinion/articl…

The mental health groups pouring salt in the wound of Jewish trauma blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-mental-hea…

Mental health resources in Israel are strained to the limit. Here are some ideas about stretching the talent we have: jpost.com/opinion/articl…

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80 years ago the Arabs were Arabs and the Palestinians were Jews. What changed? Western ignorance

If you've been distracted by images of the descruction of Gaza, here's chance to take another look at the goals, ideology and practice of these terrorists who still control the people of Gaza, and the hostages of Israeli and other nationalities. newbooksnetwork.com/hamas

074-775-1433 will connect the caller to the Tikva Helpline, a 24-hour phone support service staffed by volunteers with mental health credentials. Keep and share the number with your circles. It has already helped save lives.

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Top Podcasts of 2024 🎧 The Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel is thrilled to share our Episodes of the Year! We interviewed the experts on Assad, Hamas and the October 7 War. We hosted Marilynne Robinson on Reading Genesis...and more!

Here is a question. Medical charities that work in Gaza and NGOs such as the ICRC should have all asked for access to the hostages. It's likely that through international mediation they could have gotten access to the hostages. But have you noticed that none of the NGOs or the intl community ever even tried to do this?

israel's minor incursion into a buffer zone on the Golan, where no people live, is being portrayed as a major story; while Ankara attacking Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Kobani and killing civilians and displacing tens of thousands of people, primarily Kurds, is not even covered.