Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Jul 5, 2010, 10:00 am
Image via Wikipedia (This blog post was originally drafted in response to the piece “Next year in occupied East Jerusalem!”, which appeared in the Jewish Journal (Los Angeles) in March 2010. The draft was on a USB memory stick that disappeared at the time and has just reappeared. While it’s n...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 5, 2010, 10:00 am
Image via Wikipedia (This blog post was originally drafted in response to the piece “Next year in occupied East Jerusalem!”, which appeared in the Jewish Journal (Los Angeles) in March 2010. The draft was on a USB memory stick that disappeared at the time and has just reappeared. While it’s n...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jun 8, 2010, 12:00 pm
Image via Wikipedia The requirement sounds like a simple one: synchronise my Outlook (2003) Calendar and Contacts (especially) with Gmail, Hotmail, or another secure, reliable Webmail or other service. As a lifelong corporate IT person, I still like using Outlook as my e-mail and PIM client (althou...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jun 3, 2010, 10:00 am
Image via Wikipedia I recently volunteered to become the Webmaster and all-round IT Guy for our local community police forum, the Norwood Community Police Forum (NCPF). (Officially, “The Norwood Community Police Forum (NCPF) is a community based organization that works in close harmony with commu...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - May 31, 2010, 10:00 am
Although, strictly speaking, there are many “tribes” in Israel (to use Bernard Avishai’s terminology), just as there are many streams or denominations within Judaism, in effect we can reduce this to only two Israels, and two Judaisms. Which Israel is yours, and which Judaism? One is welcoming...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Dec 23, 2009, 1:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Dec 23, 2009, 1:00 am
In my previous post, I talked about the (relatively) new organisation, Hiddush (Freedom Of Religion for Israel) and ways in which you can support it (both morally and in more tangible forms). Nikki responded, and pointed out that Hiddush had just kicked off its first campaign, aimed at Israel’s C...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 19, 2009, 1:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 19, 2009, 1:00 am
In a couple of posts back in March 2008, I mourned the demise of Shinui at a time when it was needed more then ever. I also suggested that the political scene could benefit greatly from the founding of a “single issue” NGO to address the Haredi threat to Israeli society. What I referred to as t...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 11, 2009, 9:00 am
Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day, Poppy Day or Veterans Day in various countries – is observed throughout most of the Western World. It is not officially commemorated in Israel (although it is remembered by Jewish war veterans in accordance with their own their own countries’ cust...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 11, 2009, 9:00 am
Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day, Poppy Day or Veterans Day in various countries – is observed throughout most of the Western World. It is not officially commemorated in Israel (although it is remembered by Jewish war veterans in accordance with their own their own countries’ cust...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 11, 2009, 7:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 11, 2009, 7:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 9, 2009, 9:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 9, 2009, 9:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 9, 2009, 9:00 am
Image via Wikipedia In my previous blog post, I looked at the last days of Apartheid South Africa, and the eerie parallels between the attitudes of White South Africans at the time, and the apparent mindset of much of Israel today. In both cases, there was/is the widespread belief that (a) we can s...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 9, 2009, 9:00 am
Image via Wikipedia In my previous blog post, I looked at the last days of Apartheid South Africa, and the eerie parallels between the attitudes of White South Africans at the time, and the apparent mindset of much of Israel today. In both cases, there was/is the widespread belief that (a) we can s...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 4, 2009, 1:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 4, 2009, 1:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 4, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia What does this have to do with a blog on Israel and Jewish affairs? Having lived through the fall of Apartheid and the all-too brief honeymoon period that followed, I find a number of eerie parallels between attitudes and beliefs held by White South Africans at the time, and Isr...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 4, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia What does this have to do with a blog on Israel and Jewish affairs? Having lived through the fall of Apartheid and the all-too brief honeymoon period that followed, I find a number of eerie parallels between attitudes and beliefs held by White South Africans at the time, and Isr...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 23, 2009, 4:30 am
Image via CrunchBase Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Web Services, Web 2.0. Each has its own definition, overlapping with the others to a greater or lesser extent. What it means to the man on the street (or on his or her laptop or mobile), though, is that we’re increasing trusting our valuable (...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 23, 2009, 4:30 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 21, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 21, 2009, 2:00 am
Image via Wikipedia According to the concluding paragraph of an article entitled “Only aliyah can save Israel” by Uzi Silber: So what then is the solution? Barring unforeseen miracles, mass Jewish immigration to Israel by the hundreds of thousands remains the only viable way of ensuring that t...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 21, 2009, 2:00 am
Image via Wikipedia According to the concluding paragraph of an article entitled “Only aliyah can save Israel” by Uzi Silber: So what then is the solution? Barring unforeseen miracles, mass Jewish immigration to Israel by the hundreds of thousands remains the only viable way of ensuring that t...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 21, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 19, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 19, 2009, 2:00 am
I think there needs to be a Palestinian state (or a Palestinian entity that’s something less than a state). Not because the Palestinians desire or deserve it; they don’t (there has never been a less deserving people). Rather, because Israel deserves it. What do I mean by this? Palestinian autono...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 19, 2009, 2:00 am
I think there needs to be a Palestinian state (or a Palestinian entity that’s something less than a state). Not because the Palestinians desire or deserve it; they don’t (there has never been a less deserving people). Rather, because Israel deserves it. What do I mean by this? Palestinian autono...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 19, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 12, 2009, 2:30 pm
Image via Wikipedia In June this year, I posted a user specification for what I termed The Ultimate Comment Tracking System or UCTS (a digital stream for the commentosphere). The idea was for a lightweight desktop application (backed up by a Cloud service) to compile, submit and track comments and ...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 12, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 8, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 8, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 8, 2009, 2:00 am
I’m pleased to announce that Maskil just reached another auspicious milestone – the first anti-Semitic “hate-mail” comment – from someone calling himself Adam979 (in Hampshire?). The comment appeared on “Google Knol: The Next Big Thing for anti-Semitism 2.0?”, which I posted more than ...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 6, 2009, 2:00 pm
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 5, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 2, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 29, 2009, 2:00 am
Image via Wikipedia The latest BBC Earth Report (entitled Down to Earth) gave a fascinating glimpse into local efforts to re-green the West African portion of the Sahel.  It described three of the techniques being used to achieve this (diguettes, so-called half-moons and zai).  From the transcrip...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 29, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 29, 2009, 2:00 am
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
Image via Wikipedia According to an item on the Haaretz Israeli news Website (Should IDF shoot terrorists holding soldier captive? ), we should expect to see a change in the official IDF rules of engagement regarding attempts to kidnap soldiers. In future, IDF units and members will be required to...
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
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Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
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