Shavuot supper – Special guest speaker
Westminster Synagogue SW1
Author Archives: Elon Perry
5th May 2014
YOM HAZIKARON – The annual memorial day for Israeli war victims
South Hampstead Synagogue
18th January 2014
Elon Perry in conversation with Rabbi Neil Janes:
The Jewish state – Politics and conflicts
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue St John’s Wood Road London NW8 7HA
UN PARTITION PLAN
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UN Partition Plan
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ARIEL SHARON
Ariel Sharon was known as The Bulldozer: a larger-than-life, blustering figure who came to dominate the domestic political scene as much by his sheer physical presence as by his rhetoric.
Reconsidering the two-state solution
By Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem
A “two-state solution” to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is the declared goal of their leaders and many international diplomats and politicians.
It is the snappy shorthand for a final settlement that would see the creation of an independent state of Palestine on pre-1967 ceasefire lines in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem living peacefully alongside Israel.
The United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union, Russia and the United States routinely restate their commitment to the concept, and US President Barack Obama is sure to do so once again as he visits Jerusalem and Ramallah this week.
But many experts, as well as ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, now believe the two-state option should be abandoned or at least reconsidered.
Twenty years after the breakthrough Oslo Accords there is no sign of a final agreement.
8 of the Greatest Quotes About Israel and the Jews
Nelson Mandela
In 1990, Nelson Mandela was invited to come to the United States to receive the hero’s welcome he so richly deserved. There was a planned a ticker tape parade in New York City, congratulatory rallies, meetings with important political figures and extensive media coverage. However, because of his warm relationships with Gaddafi and Arafat and statements he made about Israel as an occupier of the Palestinian homeland, there was concern among some leaders in the Black community, that his visit to New York City would not get the whole hearted participation from the Jewish Community it warranted.
Jews, Muslims show unity through bike ride
Interfaith group of cyclists tours Chicago mosque, synagogue
July 08, 2012|By Erin Meyer, Chicago Tribune reporter
A group of Muslim and Jewish cyclists found common ground Sunday on Chicago pavement as they biked across the city from a downtown mosque to a North Side synagogue.