On Life After Zionist Summer Camp
@MikeBarthel and anyone else interested - Small point, but it sounds like the author attended a Young Judea camp. While I wouldn't call it right-wing by any means, I'd put that sort of camp very much in-line with AIPAC. That's not the only flavor of socialist-Zionist Jewish youth movements. I went to a socialist Zionist camp run by a lefty youth movement that taught us all about Israel, but not at the expense of learning about the Palestinians as well. We were taught to think for ourselves and to come to our own conclusions, and our Zionism was about believing that the Jews and Palestinians both had the right to live in peace according to their own laws within greater-Israel.
Not here to argue the politics, just to point out that Zionism isn't synonymous with anti-Palestinian. It certainly wasn't at my camp.
All that said, great article and it's wonderful to have this great shared childhood experience with so many others. Not to get all Stand By Me, but my best friends are still the ones I had when I was 12. And as an East Coast Jew, we weren't that cute either.
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On 'Pet Sematary': A Reminder That Zombie Cats Make Terrible Pets
@Mr. B
Undeniably Good Stephen King Movies:
- The Shining
- Misery
- Stand By Me
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Carrie
- The Green Mile
- The Dead Zone
Semi-Good Stephen King Movies
- Apt Pupil
- Storm of the Century
- Christine
- Hearts in Atlantis
- Dolores Claiborne
- The Running Man
That's a solid list. There have been a lot of bad ones of course, but he's written SO MUCH that that's only to be expected. Considering that most people consider The Shining, Misery, Shawshank and Stand by Me to be classics, the guy's doing okay.