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Checkpoint Watch

Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

By: Judith Keshet

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Checkpoint Watch

Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

By: Judith Keshet

This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation Wall, with analysis of the bureaucracy that supports the ongoing occupation. Keshet demonstrates the link between Israeli bureaucracy and the closure system as integral to a wider project of ethnic cleansing. As co-founder of the group, Keshet critically reviews the organisation's transformation from a feminist, radical protest movement to one both reclaimed by, and reclaiming, the consensus. Illustrating the nature of Israeli mainstream discourse as both anodyne and cruel, the book also analyses Israeli media representation of Checkpoint Watch and human rights activism in general. Keshet contends that the dilemmas of these Israeli women, torn between opposition to the Occupation and their loyalty to the state, reflects political divisions within Israel society as a whole.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848136250

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Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel

The Ultimate Family Sourcebook

By: Judith Isaacson,Deborah Rosenbloom

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Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Israel

The Ultimate Family Sourcebook

By: Judith Isaacson,Deborah Rosenbloom

This is the sourcebook for families of any Jewish denomination who are interested in celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah in Israel. It provides a good picture of the sites available and the options at each location.

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134

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Israel Info-Access

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0966087704

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9780966087703

Torah Queeries

Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible

By: Gregg Drinkwater,Joshua Lesser,Judith Plaskow,David Shneer

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Torah Queeries

Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible

By: Gregg Drinkwater,Joshua Lesser,Judith Plaskow,David Shneer

A modernized, queer reading of the Torah. In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world’s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a “bent lens.” With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings collected here open stimulating new insights and highlight previously neglected perspectives. This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life. Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at times, provoke them, Torah Queeries examines topics as divergent as the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the experience of the Exodus, the rape of Dinah, the life of Joseph, and the ritual practices of the ancient Israelites. Most powerfully, the commentaries here chart a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition. A labor of intellectual rigor, social justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish communities, and an essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.

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351

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NYU Press

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0814741096

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9780814741092

Vegf and Cancer

By: Judith H. Harmey

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Vegf and Cancer

By: Judith H. Harmey

VEGF and Canceris a comprehensive and up to date review of current knowledge on the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in cancer. Key Features: -Discussion of VEGF as potent angiogenic factor and its role in tumor angiogenesis, -Review of the biology, molecular properties and regulation of VEGF, -Discussion of the role of VEGF in a range of different tumor types, both solid tumors and haematological cancers, -Review of the therapeutic potential of different approaches to block VEGF, -Review of recent evidence that in addition to its role as an endothelial cell mitogen, VEGF may also be an autocrine growth factor for tumor cells, regulating survival and invasion. This book is aimed at scientists new to angiogenesis and VEGF biology and provides new information for established researchers and scientists. It will also be a useful text for clinicians interested in anti-angiogenic therapy for treatment of human cancers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306479885

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9780306479885

Perfect Heroes

The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory

By: Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz,Judith Baumel-Schwartz

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The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory

By: Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz,Judith Baumel-Schwartz

During World War II, the British military dropped several dozen parachutists from Palestine, including three women, behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. These young soldiers, most of whom had fled Europe only a few years earlier, faced a double challenge: their British mission was to find pilots who had jettisoned over enemy territory and assist them in returning to Allied-occupied lands; their Zionist mission was to contact Jewish communities, assist them in rebuilding the local Zionist movement, and, when necessary, help their members escape from the Nazis. Seven of the parachutists lost their lives in this effort. In Perfect Heroes, an expanded and updated English adaptation of her Hebrew book Giborim le-mofet, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz recounts the history of these parachutists' wartime escapades and also analyzes the ways that various segments of Israeli society—military, political, legal, educational, youth, literary, and artistic—used the parachutists' story over the course of fifty years to build a nationalist narrative and to promote their own partisan and, at times, contradictory agendas. Baumel-Schwartz also offers broader comparative discussions of how individuals were commemorated as WWII heroes and heroines in many countries, in service of national mythologizing and collective memory.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299234835

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9780299234836

Checkpoint Watch

Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

By: Judith Keshet

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Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

By: Judith Keshet

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Perfect Heroes

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