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What, pray tell, has Knesset Members talking so tough? Qassams in Sderot? Civil rights? Poverty? Peace? No, plastic bags is the topic of the day! According to this article:
A bill proposing to oblige stores to provide customers with paper bags instead of nylon ones passed its first reading at the Knesset Wednesday. According to the […]

The Jerusalem Pride Rally made the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

There has been a lot of discussion in the Israeli English blogoshpere about the upcoming Jerusalem Pride March. Nominally Challenged, Adam, Robbie, Idan, Stefanella, and even the folks at Jewlicious have gotten in on the conversation. The long and short of it is that after delaying the march last year because of the pullout and […]

There’s an interesting Op-ed in Haaretz about the Jerusalem Pride Parade.
Pride and prejudice
By Yoav Sivan
After the cease-fire agreement was reached in August, it took only a few days for the Jerusalem Open House to reschedule a gay pride parade in town, after the WorldPride march was put off indefinitely because of the war. It took […]

In a recent post, Treppenwitz discussed how he can’t “get used to hearing secular Israelis complain loudly and unabashedly about ‘those religious people.’” I agree with him and I don’t think that we should ever tune out broad generalizations about any group. A little more compassion and understanding is a good thing all around.
Trepp goes […]