A hospice in Jerusalem offers its services to both Arabs and Israelis. The article makes it seem like this place is the only site ever of coexistence.
Two Israeli mothers appeared in Jerusalem courts this week for separate, but equally grisly cases. There is a larger story here, the one of the Beit Shemesh woman who began advocating full-length burkas for Jewish women. This is an issue in itself, but the icing on the cake is that this zealot was caught abusing her children in unimaginable ways. This is freakin lamentable because this can be seen to represent the entire religious Jewish Israeli community. And its not! Some religious Jews are really nice people, I promise.
The Sephardi-Hasidic blogger/up-and-coming-hip-hop-star Y-Love has an old post about the Jewish burka phenomenon here.
The blog Jewlicious has an interesting story about a clothing manufacturer, No Sweat Apparel, which is trying to revolutionize the global clothing industry. I don't know much about the company, but it buys clothing from all sorts of textile factories, one which is a Jewish-owned shop in Bethlehem. Check it.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I'll see you on Tuesday.
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This Adam Neiman (founder of the clothing company) may be on to something with his economic diplomacy. Meanwhile there are people sitting in board rooms hypothesizing about solutions... and he is actually creating jobs. Have you heard of American Apparel founder Dov Charney? Not quite as noble a character, but a somewhat related and interesting story.
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