1. All of them flup flupping it’s a windy, a delicious day 2. If I die in a suicide bombing please do not remember me as a Suicide Bombed. 3. Outside of the hall, six […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Eviction
“We have nine children.” Rueful lip-slant; how calm eyes! Un-homed, de-housed: Leave. — Khaled and Lubna Natche and their family were evicted from their house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina last week by […]
Eviction in Beit Hanina: New Site of East Jerusalem Settlement
This piece was orginially published on +972 Magazine. Beit Hanina – Wednesday morning, a Palestinian family of 11, the Natche family, was evicted from their home in Beit Hanina (Hebrew report). The legal process behind the eviction was launched […]
A HuffPoem on the Omer, War and Lovingkindness
— This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post as part of HuffPo’s special liveblog section on Counting the Omer. Each day of the Omer has a mystical This was written for Day 8, חסד שבגבורה or, […]
Project Hayei Sarah: Matzah Covers from a Palestinian Women’s Co-op in Hebron
Check it out: What is Project Hayei Sarah? “We are a group of rabbinical students, rabbis, Jewish educators & lay-leaders who have spent time in Hebron and are grappling with the difficult realities we encountered […]
Why J Street is (still) so important
This piece was originally published on Common Ground News Service, and was the second piece I wrote following the 2012 J Street Conference in DC. The first, J Street third annual conference marks shift to the […]
Why “Hunger Games” is Pro-Violence
The government is run by sleek, despicable rulers. It is housed in a hi-tech city of luxury, but the sheen of the city is not bright enough to cover up the Empty caged in its […]
ראיון ראדיו איתי באתר דוגרינט
מוריאל רוטמן: בדמוקרטיה כולם אחראים חדוה ליבנת פורסם: 01.04.2012 \ עדכון אחרון: 01.04.2012 http://dugrinet.co.il/14180/blog/2012/april/01 “בדמוקרטיה חלק קטן מהאנשים אשמים אבל כולם אחראים” (הרב אהברם יהושוע השל) מוריאל נולד בישראל וחי בה 5 שנים, אחר-כך חי 12 […]
J Street: If we lose our Leftist values, we lose what is left of our value
[this piece was originally published on +972 magazine] I have attended all three J Street conferences since the organization formed in 2008 with the dual objectives of pushing the US government to take an active […]
A Moment of Left-Wing Frustration
I am very tired of the discourse in the media which goes as follows: X article/book/statement/rodent received heavy criticism both from the Left and from the Right, thereby, readers should realize that X falls nicely in […]
