Douglas Altabef
ARTICLES BY: Douglas Altabef
Addressing Israel’s Cost of Living Is a Zionist Imperative
JNS.org – There is a tendency in Israel to associate certain issues with specific parts of the population or the political spectrum. The large social justice...
The 11th Lost Tribe
JNS.org - The recently updated Pew Research Center survey of American Jewry is notable for its data showing dramatic growth in the number of Jews...
Deconstructing Peace
“I am totally in favor of a realistic two-state solution. There is no alternative but a two-state solution.” This conviction is often stated with the distant...
Future Crimes We Are Committing Now
Verbal abuse of computer systems like Siri or Alexa. Mistreating your iRobot vacuum cleaner. Hurting your grass by using lawn mowers. These daily incidents --...
The Difference Between History and News
From a PR perspective, Israel seemed to have forfeited a great day of celebration, due to the insistence of several media outlets on juxtaposing the ceremony...
Something Is Rotten in Israel: It’s the New Israel Fund
The New Israel Fund (NIF) is ecstatic over its victory dismantling the Israeli government’s plan to deport illegal migrants from Africa back to friendly, third-party...
Don’t Let the ‘What Ifs’ Scare Us
These are exciting times in Israel -- economically, militarily and diplomatically. Yet, no matter how successful we might be on a certain front, there will...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Encountering Vile Antisemitism at NY’s Whitney Museum
It has become part of my family's post-aliyah ritual: the annual trip back to the Old Country, to visit the family and friends that we left behind. Landing...
Holy Secularism: A Visit to the Tavor Academy
One of the defining characteristics of life in Israel is the ongoing encounter and grappling with Judaism and Jewish identity. Largely unnoticed outside of the...
The Two-State Solution Blindspot
Barack Obama and John Kerry regard the two-state solution as nothing less than divinely ordained. The "Solution," as we will call it, is self-apparent: two...
‘Anyone but Bibi’ Is No Way to Run Our Country
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu is arguably a victim of his own success. Having served as PM for 10-plus years, he inevitably is being...
At 68, Israel Is Growing Comfortable in Its Own Skin
We are just completing the emotionally intensive and exhausting week that begins with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and ends with its equal and opposite emotional bookend,...
Two Cheers for Ted
Politics is called the art of the possible. You work with what you have. Sometimes, you have to make the best of what you are...
A Less Obvious Reason for Why Israelis Love Purim
While Israelis are excited to embrace the cornucopia of Jewish holidays, there is little doubt that Purim holds a special place in our collective and...
