The Turn the Tide Foundation and Dr. Katz encourage you to ‘Unjunk Yourself’ with this hilarious and adorable music video. The video is the first of a series of music videos that the foundation will release to deliver empowering messages about health, nutrition, and exercise as part of its UnJunk Yourself campaign to empower teens and tweens to lead healthy lives.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Julianna Storch
Stu Eizenstat recently launched a book on a fascinating and weighty subject. “The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States” promises to be an interesting read and can be purchased on Amazon.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Adeena Cohen
Years ago on my honeymoon, playing volleyball in the beach in Ko So Moi in Thailand, I was told I tore my ACL and would need surgery. Fortunately I visited Dr. Jordan Metzl, and he helped me heal without surgery. To this date, I do some exercises that help me keep my knees strong. Dr. Metzl has helped me for years to learn how to heal myself from athletic injuries.
Dr. Metzl just came out with a book, “The Athlete’s Book of Home Remedies,” available on Amazon, and I wondered if it would live up to his excellent guidance in person. Then yesterday I develop a deep pain in my heel – on the bottom of my foot, and couldn’t walk. I thought I would have to visit Dr. Metzl but I looked at the book just in case. Within minutes I followed his guidance, and started getting on the road to recovery following his advice, and building on it with a very good video from YouTube that further elaborated on exercises to overcome plantar fasciitis.
I highly recommend Dr. Metzl’s book – it is comprehensive, easy to read, and a real solid resource.
Reader’s Digest calls the snackers of the world to rejoice in the release of KIND’s new Nuts & Spice bars! The bars’ bold spices, like vanilla and ginger, deliver great taste without the need for added sugars. The editors recommended Madagascar Vanilla Almond and Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Pecan as their favorite guilt-free indulgences to get them through the day.
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This June, InStyle recommends KIND as a snack that will “fill up your tank without adding junk to your trunk.” InStyle loves KIND for being “the real deal – all-natural, low-sugar, low-carb – and they taste divine.” It seems like InStyle has really raised the bar on how to slim down for the summer!
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Check out these stunning images of Kate Moss dripping in Maiyet!
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Adeena Cohen
The article below by Ron Pundak contains at least two deep lessons. The clearest one is of course what he shares: that “anti-normalization” efforts that seek to boycott any cooperative efforts and engagement among Palestinian and Israeli civil society organizations and people can only bring harm to the people of the region who want to resolve the conflict, to end the occupation, and to achieve a two state solution.
But there is a deeper lesson I must confess to. Until reading this article, my attitude has been to defend efforts like those of OneVoice, which clearly works to end the occupation, to change the status quo, and to achieve Israeli-Palestinian agreement. I have quietly acquiesced to, and empathized with, Palestinian concerns about “dialogue” groups whose effort is just to humanize the other, understanding that Palestinians may not want to “dialogue” with the enemy – they want to end the occupation and do not want to endorse the status quo in any way. I still of course understand this. But I now also recognize that is a cowardly position, convenient to me because that is the approach I feel is worthy of support as that is what OneVoice does. But it fails to stand up to defend and recognize that those “dialogue” efforts are also vital to fostering understanding and respect of the “other”, and that often Israelis and Palestinians are first exposed to the other side through these socio-cultural groups and in a very direct way may then be inspired to get more involved in changing the status quo because of the human bonds that they have established.
The same thing happened to me, if I go back to 1989, when I was a student at Hebrew University and I met Palestinian students whose humanity I began to appreciate more.
This reminds me of the old statement by pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
A new poll reaffirms the uphill battle to get Israelis and Palestinians to overcome their skepticism about each other, and to be able to visualize that a two state solution can come about. According to the Peace Index, we have our work cut out for ourselves. Here is a summary:
Poll: Israelis Want Peace Negotiations But Don’t Believe They Will Succeed (Peace Index)
While 71% of the Israeli public favors holding peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 67% do not believe that negotiations will lead to peace in the coming years, according to the April 2012 Peace Index survey of the Evens Program for Conflict Resolution at Tel Aviv University and the Israel Democracy Institute.
58% said they did not believe there is a real chance to resolve the conflict in accordance with the "two states for two peoples" formula in the next ten years.
SS+K created a remarkably clever and effective campaign for a Korean-based Pizza chain that deserves recognition. From their newsletter – make sure to watch their video:
Clifford May wrote an article worth reading for all those who are determined to truly address the refugee issue and resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to the points made in the article, it is important to track the real numbers of refugees, EVEN if I you count their descendants. Some of the estimates regularly shared are inflated beyond belief. A way to confirm this is simply by tracking how many Palestinians were living in total prior to 1948, then tracking how many of them left and how many of them stayed at the time, and how many are there today, and compare to the estimated number who is considered a refugee today. Even if everyone who left, and everyone of their descendants were to considered a refugee, and even if their birthrate was far higher than the one in the West Bank and Gaza and within Israel, the discrepancies would still be quite apparent.