Thursday, March 18, 2010
How About an Arab ‘Settlement’ Freeze?
Wall Street Journal
When she is surrounded by a swirl of conversation she cannot understand, my two-year-old granddaughter turns to me expectantly: "What they talking . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What’s Wrong With Israel’s Proposed Conversion Bill
Seth Farber
Only in Israel. On the day that the U.S. vice president arrived in Israel, reportedly to thwart Israel’s bombing of Iran, and following two days of . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
New housing units
By Steve Greenberg
New Housing . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Letters: Dennis Prager, Marty Kaplan, “Jewish” Journal
Heritage Listings Necessary
Avi Davis is correct to argue that Israel’s heritage listing of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
A Tennis Lesson for the World
by Leonard A. Cole, JTA
The news out of Dubai has been rife with speculation about who assassinated Hamas terrorist commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a local hotel. Israeli . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Tormenting Israel
By David Suissa
I’ve never understood why the world goes absolutely bonkers when Jews try to build homes in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Take the latest . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
American Jewry behaving like teenagers
By Rob Eshman
First, let’s establish that what Israel did by announcing the construction of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem during the visit of Vice . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
A welcome or a wall?
by David Harris
Oy!
In the Knesset, there is an attempt to bar any non-Jew who ever visited Israel from claiming Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, if . . .
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
It’s not about settlements, stupid, it’s about trust
By Douglas Bloomfield
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Interior Minister Eli Yishai did more to harm U.S.-Israel relations than all of Israel’s detractors . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
No rap over the knuckles this time
By Avi Davis
We might have put this behind us.
That’s what some members of the Obama administration should have been thinking this week as the brouhaha over . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
Biden’s failed mission
by Mitchell Bard
In its determination to prove it is not the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration has gone out of its way to curry favor with the Arabs and . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
Why is the U.S. undermining the sovereignty of Israel?
By Gary A. Aminoff
Here are a few questions that I would like answers . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
I Got the Broadcast Blues
By Marty Kaplan
Local TV news is the number one source of news for Americans. Seventy-eight percent of the country turns to it to find out what’s going on. The . . .
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Post-Biden Visit: Accountability Needed in the Mideast
By Peter A. Joseph, President, Israel Policy Forum
The Israeli announcement of 1,600 new housing units to be built in East Jerusalem has potentially derailed the proximity talks, and in doing so, . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
After Biden’s Israel Contretemps, Stepping Back
By Abraham H. Foxman
On some level, it couldn't have been worse. We have a situation where the most trusted member of the U.S. administration, Vice President Joe Biden, . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
Purim Government
By Michael Berenbaum
I have just breathed a sigh of relief. Good news: the world is a less dangerous place; the Jewish people are more . . .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Free Debate vs. Political Sport on Campus
By Kenneth Stern
NEW YORK – For many students, political passion is an essential part of the college experience. But, when such passion makes one feel that . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Unorthodox Rules
By Steve Greenberg
and Non-Orthodox . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Rethinking Palestine: A Paradigm Shift From the Political to the Humanitarian
by Martin Sherman
It is time for the proponents of the two-state solution to admit that the Palestinians have failed the test of history in staking their claim for . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Rahm Emanuel Show
By Raphael J. Sonenshein
It was a very strange sight. There in The Washington Post was an article by reporter Dana Milbank making a case that White House Chief of Staff Rahm . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jews and God — a Troubled Relationship
By Dennis Prager
We Jews need to face a sad, even tragic, fact. Things are not going very well in the relationship between God and most Jews.
All polling data agree . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Birthright Judaism
By David Suissa
Why is it so expensive to live a Jewish life? Since Jewish continuity and vitality are such communal priorities, and since the great majority of . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Seismic Jew
By Rob Eshman
The last time I saw Christopher Hitchens speak publicly in Los Angeles, he argued against God and religion. This time, delivering the eighth annual . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Letters to the Editor: “Inglourious Basterds,” UC Irvine, Purim Cover, Dennis Prager
Re: “Ultimate Revenge: Jews Get the Last Word as Tarantino's ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Rewrites History” (March 5): A great article about a . . .
