By Limor Shiponi It has happened that I’ve participated more than once in an event outside Israel, where people introduced me as, “please welcome Limor, she’s from Israel and she’s going to tell us Jewish stories”. My immediate inner reaction was, “hell not” which I didn’t speak out loud of course, but went on telling …
By Limor Shiponi Warsaw Ghetto, August 2, 1942 “We have no information about the fate of those who were expelled… Nothing we hear is based on exact information.” …
By Limor Shiponi This post is about politics and a different G story than what stable readers of this blog have been accustomed to lately. If you’re not interested, skip. If you’re not sure, try, it might elicit some thoughts. Current events, turmoil of public opinion, twitter feeds screaming anti-Semitism, pictures of destruction. At the …
By Limor Shiponi Conference on World Affairs 2012 panel, with Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Scott Olsen, Jay M. Parker and myself. In a way, coming from Israel and speaking about national service seemed a little too easy. Almost everybody knows that Israel is unique in that military service is compulsory for both males and females. Those who cannot serve in the …
By Limor Shiponi Ofra Gisella Kipnis (1.12.1927 – 3.8.2011) Ofra was born and raised in a secular bourgeois Jewish home in Tunisia. She drew her values and world view from her parents who emphasized the importance of general education, wide knowledge, socialism and humanism. Growing in the shadow of WWII, it became natural for her …