2008 Woodie Awards
I was talking to one of my roommates on the day that Olmert resigned, after the week that Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and Merrill Lynch was bought out, and it was determined that Mashiach [the Messiah] MUST be coming now, for what else could explain all the craziness? Thinking about the world right now as a graduating senior, and a business major, is a scary proposition.
This year's Israel club shabbaton promised to be a unique experience. The Israel Club brought in Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian woman whose father was the head of military operations in Gaza in the 1950s. She is a fascinating woman and told us of her childhood in Gaza and Egypt under extreme Islamic sharia [Islamic religious law.
To understand is not to condone. Unfortunately, this is difficult for some to comprehend. Some prefer to operate under the assumption that all things are equal, and nuance does not exist. In their minds, to write about a topic is to legitimize it, to discuss something forbidden is suddenly to claim it is permitted.