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Hiddush – Freedom Of Religion for Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 19, 2009, 12:00 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 o...
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Remembrance Day in Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 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 (a...
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Remembrance Day in Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 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 (a...
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The Last Days of Greater Israel – A Response to Uzi Silber

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 9, 2009, 8:00 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 ...
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The Last Days of Greater Israel – A Response to Uzi Silber

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 9, 2009, 8:00 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 ...
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Last days of Apartheid South Africa – Lessons for Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Nov 4, 2009, 12:00 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 numbe...
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Last days of Apartheid South Africa – Lessons for Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Nov 4, 2009, 12:00 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 numbe...
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The Pitfalls of Cloud Computing

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 23, 2009, 3:30 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 st...
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Only Aliya can save Israel. Oh really?

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 21, 2009, 1:00 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 Jewi...
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Only Aliya can save Israel. Oh really?

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 21, 2009, 1:00 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 Jewi...
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Israel Needs a Palestinian Entity

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 19, 2009, 1:00 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 le...
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Israel Needs a Palestinian Entity

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 19, 2009, 1:00 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 le...
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easyComment – Firefox Add-On for the Serial Commenter

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 am
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 light...
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Another Milestone for Maskil – My First Anti-Semitic Hate Comment

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Oct 8, 2009, 1:00 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 com...
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Another Milestone for Maskil – My First Anti-Semitic Hate Comment

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 8, 2009, 1:00 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 com...
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Intermarriage – Straight Talk or Just More of the Same? (Part 2)

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 6, 2009, 1:00 pm
Image by bowbrick via Flickr (Part 1 of “Intermarriage – Straight Talk or Just More of the Same?” appeared here.) My belief is that most of us are not absorbing an Adult Judaism by the time we...
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Intermarriage – Straight Talk or Just More of the Same? (Part 1)

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 5, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia With a challenging title like “Time for Straight-Talk about Assimilation”, I expected some real ground-breaking stuff from this article. Instead, it ended up being just more o...
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Time for Straight-Talk About Assimilation?

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Oct 2, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia I posted the comment below in response to an article with this title (without the question mark) which appeared in the electronic pages of (The Jewish Daily) Forward and on the eJ...
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Greening the Negev – Lessons from the Sahel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 29, 2009, 1:00 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 t...
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Greening the Negev – Lessons from the Sahel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 29, 2009, 1:00 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 t...
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Kidnapping of IDF Soldiers – Not Just Resistance, but Rescue

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 22, 2009, 11:00 am
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 eng...
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Kidnapping of IDF Soldiers – Not Just Resistance, but Rescue

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 22, 2009, 11:00 am
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 eng...
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Blogger And WordPress – Feature Comparison For The Non-Technical Blogger

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 14, 2009, 1:00 am
In a post a couple of weeks ago, I endorsed the conventional wisdom that serious or professional bloggers should favour WordPress, while those blogging as a hobby or sideline can safely continue using...
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Zionism – A Mission for the 21st Century

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 8, 2009, 9:00 am
Image via Wikipedia For the better part of a century, Zionism in its various forms managed to engage and embrace some of the finest minds and spirits amongst the Jewish people. It also enjoyed widesp...
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Zionism – A Mission for the 21st Century

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 8, 2009, 9:00 am
Image via Wikipedia For the better part of a century, Zionism in its various forms managed to engage and embrace some of the finest minds and spirits amongst the Jewish people. It also enjoyed widesp...
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Russell Cohen - Nice look and feel. I particularly liked the common look and feel/integration between the blog and the rest of the site. Picked up a few typos in the content. Maybe some more attention to proofreading? Good first impression!
Sep 7, 2009, 11:14 am

Fighting the 2nd World War All Over Again

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 3, 2009, 1:00 am
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Fighting the 2nd World War All Over Again

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Sep 3, 2009, 1:00 am
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It's OK to Blog on Blogger

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Sep 1, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via CrunchBase While I’m very happy with my decision to (finally) migrate from Blogger/Blogspot to self-hosted WordPress (apart from losing two years worth of “Google Juice”), looking at ...
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Oppose Farouk Hosni as UNESCO's Director-General

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Aug 27, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia In a sane world, we would not have to oppose the appointment of a self-avowed book-burner as Director-General of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizati...
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Oppose Farouk Hosni as UNESCO's Director-General

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Aug 27, 2009, 1:00 am
Image via Wikipedia In a sane world, we would not have to oppose the appointment of a self-avowed book-burner as Director-General of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizati...
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The South African Machal Volunteers

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Aug 25, 2009, 1:00 am
In a brief post at this time last year, I mentioned the book SOUTH AFRICA’S 800, The Story of South African Volunteers in Israel’s War of Birth. I offered to provide contact details should...
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New Vision For The JNF: A Billion Trees By 2100

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Aug 18, 2009, 1:00 am
JNF Achievements And Challenges The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was founded in 1901 – a little over a century ago – and began planting trees seriously in 1908 (in Hulda, in memory of Theodor Herzl...
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New Vision For The JNF: A Billion Trees By 2100

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Aug 18, 2009, 1:00 am
JNF Achievements And Challenges The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was founded in 1901 – a little over a century ago – and began planting trees seriously in 1908 (in Hulda, in memory of Theodor Herzl...
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The Machers and the Rebbes

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Aug 10, 2009, 1:00 am
Reading this NYTimes.com article (highlighted on the FailedMessiah.com whistle-blower website) had me wondering again why so many of our “Machers” – highly successful and powerful businessmen an...
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A Premonition Of Israel's Demise

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Aug 4, 2009, 9:00 am
Along with the rest of the world (or a sizeable part of it), I see daily images of Israel such as those on this euronews insert. There is bias, propaganda, a lack of objectivity, half-truths, untruths...
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A Premonition Of Israel's Demise

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Aug 4, 2009, 9:00 am
Along with the rest of the world (or a sizeable part of it), I see daily images of Israel such as those on this euronews insert. There is bias, propaganda, a lack of objectivity, half-truths, untruths...
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Gender segregation on Israeli Buses

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 28, 2009, 9:00 am
The issue of gender segregation on certain Israeli bus lines (branching out from the so-called Mehadrin lines) will seemingly not go away, with both observant and non-observant women being forced to s...
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Maskil Has a New Home on the Web

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Jul 26, 2009, 1:00 am
Those who’ve been following any of my legacy Blogger blogs (Altneuland, Cafe Birkenreis, J-Blogosphere or Plant More Trees) via RSS feed or e-mail may not be aware that I’ve consolidated most of m...
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Maskil Has a New Home on the Web

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 26, 2009, 1:00 am
Those who’ve been following any of my legacy Blogger blogs (Altneuland, Cafe Birkenreis, J-Blogosphere or Plant More Trees) via RSS feed or e-mail may not be aware that I’ve consolidated most of m...
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The Settlement Enterprise Is a Disaster for Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 23, 2009, 1:00 am
There, I’ve said it. Until now, I’ve avoided any in-depth discussion regarding “The Settlements” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”; the widest river bank in the world!), because it’...
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The Settlement Enterprise Is a Disaster for Israel

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Jul 23, 2009, 1:00 am
There, I’ve said it. Until now, I’ve avoided any in-depth discussion regarding “The Settlements” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”; the widest river bank in the world!), because it’...
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Google Chrome OS: I Called It Right

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 21, 2009, 1:00 am
I just have to point out that I called it right in September 2008, when I predicted that the launch of the Google Chrome browser could be the prelude to an incursion into the PC operating system space...
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Conversion, Outreach and Proselytising

Russell Cohen posted an article on Maskil - Jul 15, 2009, 1:00 am
Sociological Conversion Both in Israel and the Diaspora (and within different contexts and for entirely different reasons) a phenomenon known as “sociological conversion” is taking place. With re...
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Lance the Boil of Haredi Lawbreaking

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Jul 7, 2009, 9:00 am
JPost’s BlogCentral recently featured an excellent article by Prof. Gil Troy. In a nutshell, Prof. Troy called on the Modern Orthodox in the Diaspora and religious Zionists within Israel to cut off ...
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Dead Sea, 7 Wonders of Nature and Settlements

Russell Cohen posted an article on Altneuland - Jul 1, 2009, 1:00 am
In May 2008, I posted an item regarding the Holy Land sites (Israel and surrounding areas) that had been nominated for inclusion in the New 7 Wonders of Nature list. I was therefore appalled to read...
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About Me

Maskil is the keyboard name for a freelance writer and blogger in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Maskil is a progressive Jew and Green Zionist, and writes mainly on Jewish affairs, Israel, the environment and technology.
Please contact at my profile e-mail address regarding writing assignments.

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