The world has truly become a theater of the absurd when Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad is considered a welcome guest at the UN-sponsored conference on racism that opens today in Geneva. Of course, the conference itself promises to make a mockery of the very concepts of the ideals that it purports to be combating, given that in all likelihood, it will once again turn into...
A childhood friend passed away earlier this week following a courageous, five-year battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS or Lou Gehrig‘s Disease, after the American baseball player who died from the disease in 1941. I hadn’t seen her since high school, and even in school we didn’t really run in the same circles. We did, however...
Several years ago, a good friend of mine found herself walking the streets of London during the early morning hours, trying to convince a Palestinian she’d met that his understanding of Zionist ideology was based on a definition that she, as someone living in Israel, simply could not share, that his views were based on what she considered to be a distortion of Zionism...
“There were a couple of Kadima activists here earlier, but it rained, so they left…” The best election day comment so far, said by a Green Movement-Meimad activist at my polling station this morning. There were no other party activists anywhere in the vicinity. Hardy bunch, those Kadima folks, aren’t they? Tweet
I was asked to share my thoughts on today’s Israeli elections. You can see who I voted for by scrolling down to the “Cool Stuff” section in the right-hand column of the blog and clicking the Hebrew-language banner (there’s only one), which takes you to the party’s English-language website. ******** This Tuesday, we’ll be holding elections...
Mommy: Little One, look at the television. Do you see that man? This is a very important moment that we’re watching. We’re watching history being made. Barack Obama is the first black president of the United States. Little One: Mommy, do you know what a Mercedes is? I do… Sigh… Tweet
Overheard… Husband: No way, José! Little One: Way! Yet another notch on the American slang bedpost, my friends… Tweet
What follows below is the text for my final daily diary entry for the BBC World Service radio show “The World Today“. The audio link for this show can be found here, and includes a response from one of my counterparts in Gaza, Mr. Omar Sha’ban, an economist and father who lives in central Gaza. ************** This is Liza Rosenberg, keeping an audio diary for...
What follows is the text from Sunday’s audio diary entry for the BBC World Service radio show “The World Today”. This essay was written specifically for the BBC World Service. ************* This is Liza Rosenberg, keeping an audio diary for the World Today. On Friday morning, I had the pleasure of participating in the birthday celebration for one of my...
The essay below is the transcript from my January 8th audio diary entry (filed on Wednesday evening, January 7th), written specifically for the BBC World Service radio show “The World Today“. Currently, two of my three diary entries can be found online here. ************ This is Liza Rosenberg, keeping an audio diary for the World Today. I find it ironic that on...