Maskil is the pen name (keyboard name?) for Russell Cohen, a freelance writer and blogger in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Maskil is a progressive Jew and Green Zionist, and writes mainly on Jewish affairs, Israel, the environment and technology.
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Member since May 08, 2009, follows 1 people, 1 public groups, 2066 public bookmarks (2094 total).
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- ‘Let the Jewish people know we fought’ on 2011-02-15
- Siddur Baseball | Dennis Prager | Jewish Journal on 2010-08-23
- Unsettling - by Adam Kirsch > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life on 2010-08-17
- The upside of crowding on 2010-08-02
- Op-Ed: Conversion wars undermine Israel and its image | JTA - Jewish & Israel News on 2010-07-29
- Conversion Crises Could Threaten Pro-Israel Effort on 2010-07-22
- It is wrong to fast on Tisha B'Av (Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News) on 2010-07-20
- How Hasidism Went Astray: Arthur Green (Forward.com) on 2010-06-24
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ARZA Notebook: From the 36th World Zionist Congress, Our Many Accomplishments (Reform Judaism) on 2010-06-21
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- Overwhelming support to oppose the currently proposed changes in Israeli conversion law that will both negate the Law of Return and prejudice the rights of Jewish communities to act, each in its own way, regarding the conversion process.
- Equal funding for all Jewish religious streams within the WZO budget. This could mean an additional $500,000 for the IMPJ.
- 80% positive support stating that the Government of Israel should recognize all streams of Judaism and their right to perform marriages and conversion in Israel.
- Approved a new requirement that 30% of the membership in all WZO committees, boards, etc. must be women.
Our accomplishments through the resolutions process partially include:
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This was the first time that a charedi (ultra orthodox) group joined the WZO. In this case it was the Shas party that represents mostly the Sephardic community and more specifically Moroccan Jews. One of their agenda items at the Congress was to have the concept of Jewish pluralism deleted from the WZO body politic. They proposed resolutions to set up pre conversion institutions in the Diaspora to avoid our congregations and rabbis as well as those of the Conservative movement and modern Orthodox. They proposed that the WZO expend its limited funds on substantial projects in the West Bank to protect ancient Jewish religious sites. They opposed the serious inclusion of women.
Led by our delegation, all of the Shas efforts were soundly defeated. Will this affect Israeli Government policies that we would like to see changed? Perhaps. Our collective actions do, however, put the majority of affiliated Jews on record as being for pluralism, tolerance and the rule of law in a Jewish, civil, democratic state.
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Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History (The New York Review of Books) on 2010-06-09
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The Warsaw Uprising was a major example of armed Jewish resistance to the Germans during World War II. Indeed, it is quite possible that more people of Jewish origin took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 than in the Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
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