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Props to Tiffany Shlain, honorary Hollywood Jew (from San Francisco) for ‘The Tribe’ [VIDEO]
Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary ally, the United States.
Third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam’s sake
Americans (allegedly) don’t do atheism
Behind the scenes of American fundamentalism
Iran flexes its military muscles … I mean, missiles
‘Power in the Blood’: Praying for the electric chair
How many atheists believe in God?
Rick Warren, fascism and ‘The Family’
At AIPAC, Obama talks tough and promises an undivided Jerusalem
Olmert’s American visit: Parading an embarassment
Summer reading: ‘No god but God’
In the eye of a racial storm
Feuding community leaders smooch and make up
U.S. prez says Islam ‘fanatic and fraudulent’
U.S. sniper used Quran for target practice
Sitting down with NY’s most influential Muslim
Nation might not be safest but it’s the most interesting
Not too far from my home there's a street named for the German poet Heinrich Heine, a baptized Jew and metaphorical Marrano. Sometimes on Shabbat afternoons, I take a long Jerusalem walk with my son, soon to be a soldier, and Lizzie, our German shepherd, a breed of dog that in my wildest Diaspora dreams I could never imagine owning.
Obama: ‘Never waver in our unshakeable commitment to help Israel’
Ghost of holocaust haunts visitor exploring Germany
It took me more than a year to buy my ticket. My sister was living in Berlin, and I was supposed to visit her. What she didn't know each time she asked me to come see her was how present the Holocaust was for me in my work.
Egypt-born Arab-American woman fights Islamic culture of hate
Before Sept. 11, 2001, Nonie Darwish led the quiet life of a suburbanite with three kids, a husband and a dog. But that all changed when Darwish, just returned from a trip to Egypt the day before, discovered that one of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the United States was Muhammad Atta, an Egyptian from Cairo, her hometown.
Changing the National Day of Prayer
A closer look at Islamophobia
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 26-May 2
Winner of the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, "Jellyfish" is another example of the remarkable cinematic explosion of Israeli films garnering
Books: Leaving Russia behind—somewhat
When Perestroika came in 1985, anti-Jewish feeling in Russia became even more overt than it had been during the Soviet era.
Pope Benedict wins
The vanishing American Catholic
Americans think highest of Methodists and Jews
Pope Benedict’s White House address
The best rabbis in all the land
The president need not be a Christian
Christians fleeing Iraq; few entering U.S.
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews -- Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills
‘The Gaza Bombshell’
‘A man called Lemkin’
The tale of three former terrorists
Atheist soldier sues Army
Mainline churches at odds with Israel
It will take a miracle to sell your home
Which Jews get to decide the fate of Jerusalem
Americans change faiths frequently
Scholar: Muslims will vote Obama
Which religion will usher in an era of peace?
What’s the cure for ‘sudden-jihad syndrome?’
A godly athlete on sharing his faith
JewsChoose 2008: SuperTuesday results show no clear trend
‘Covering Islam remains a struggle’
‘Politics sort of is the Jewish religion’
Muslim piety and race policy collide *
Insider: UJC a ‘stumbling bureaucracy’
The American wives of Saudi men
‘Honor killing’ not Islam’s fault
Robertson predicts recession, stock crash
Congress’ only Holocaust survivor won’t run again
Silent nights without ‘Silent Night’
Muslim Americans feel left out of campaign Godtalk
‘Our Worst Ex-President’
A pig named Muhammad, er, Bill Keller
The apocalypse is upon us
‘Refighting the Wars of Religion’
‘Hook-nosed, bloodstained Jews out to trick peaceful Arabs at Annapolis summit’
Peace: Now or never?
Evangelicals takeover America
The New Nostradamus predicts the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Forward 50
When you’re wealthy, you don’t need God
An outsider’s view on our unpopular president
The self-proclaimed Nazi hunter
Being drunk in the Spirit or just spiritually drunk?
America is her God
Quote for the ages
Six-figure Persian weddings
If I stopped shaving and lived like an Israelite
Anti-American protests in Turkey
Godtalk in last night’s GOP debate?
‘HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!’
U.S. not a Christian nation
Dawkins’ Jew slander has hurt atheists
Why it mattered and didn’t that Jefferson was an atheist
Islam gains ‘foot’hold at NYU
Roaming Iraq with a heavy metal mercenary
Playboy, that anti-Israel rag
‘Aliens in America’ and ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’
Evangelicals to split from Republican Party?
No Jews allowed: Judenrein U.S. program
Books: A stranger on a journey
In Amy Bloom's novel "Away," Lillian Leyb makes her way from the Lower East Side to Seattle and then Alaska, hoping to get to Siberia to find her daughter.
Nixon’s Jewish paranoia
Anti-Semitic Patriot Dames
Live from Tehran … I mean Columbia U
Come to Columbia, Mein Fuhrer
God responds to senator’s lawsuit
Q & A with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
The fastest growing religion
Senator’s bathroom stall a tourist stop
The president’s own personal Jesus
Nebraska senator sues God
Bush’s message ‘a pig wearing makeup’
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled …
‘Israel lobby’ not working?
9/11 reflections
‘America to the Rescue’
Why Christians should love Israel
Craig Chronicles: Senator to resign
‘Who still talks of the extermination of the Armenians?’
Spin alert: Larry Craig chronicles
Pleading guilty means Larry Craig’s guilty
Televangelist loses broadcast after slamming Islam
Another GOP politician caught in sex scandal
Does ritual meditation belong in schools?
Months in making, AG Gonzales resigns
America’s next invasion: Vietnam
Michael Bloomberg’s religion problem
Jew becomes ‘radical Muslim’ and falls back
Bishop: Christians should call God ‘Allah’
Why New Yorkers don’t like Rudy, but Red Staters do
Joseph Smith for president
Karl Rove’s out—what’s next?
My meeting with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
Remembering evangelicals for Iraq
Evangelical vote a ‘jump ball’ in ‘08
Why be Jewish?
Jews and Arabs working together
Which nation persecutes Bible distributors?
Giving up on Israel—‘The Apostate’
Rudy not pro-choice?
The evangelical problem
Second Coming: ‘I hope he comes tomorrow’
Polygamy, that’s more a Mid East Islam thing
Muslim meatpackers fired for praying
‘Keeping those Muslims out of our country’
Aliyah to New Orleans
Dept. of No-Duh
Remember the Days of Remembrance
The reason I tell this story is not to talk about me. Rather, it is to reflect on the greatness of this nation that has opened its arms to the Jewish people and to so many others. There is no other country in the world where this could happen. None. On Thursday, April 19, Yom HaShoah will again be marked by a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. The day before, President Bush will pay a personal visit to our nation's Holocaust Memorial Museum. So in addition to lighting a yahrtzeit candle Saturday night, please remember to say a prayer and thank God for the privilege of living in this great land.
America’s next top rabbi
Gangs of N.Y.—and L.A.
The gang violence that has recently wracked parts of Los Angeles compels me to ask this question: Where are all the Jewish gangs?
I'm not being cute.
New ‘big idea’ for Mideast could be big trouble
If globalization wasn't going to cure the Middle East, what would? Obvious, said the neoconservatives: democracy. The root cause of the problems in Middle East, they said, is the absence of democracy and the continued rule of dictators.
Books: Max Apple is a bard of the background
One of the best American short story writers, Apple has just published "The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories" (Johns Hopkins Press), his first collection of stories in 20 years. He writes with the same playful imagination and comic intelligence as in his earlier stories, layered with irony and an infallible sense of detail.
Yehoram Uziel: A Lifeline to Mexico
When he was sent by his high-tech company to America in 1989, it was only natural that he would begin to search for more volunteer opportunities. An experienced pilot, Uziel, 56, began working for various medical aid organizations, flying needy sick people, as well as medical equipment and doctors around the country.
New approaches in Iraq could <I>help</I> Israel
Israel is now stuck between Iraq and a hard place; those in the administration who most uncritically support Israel don't know what they're doing, and those who have better ideas are more critical of Israel.
I’m… dreaming… of a white… Chri—ummm, holidays
Christmas, you know (unless you've all forgotten, which is increasingly possible), doesn't celebrate the birth of Santa, but the birth of Jesus, and Jesus was a Jew.
missFlag shuns politics for love in Israel’s indie rock scene
missFlag, an up-and-coming indie band from Israel, hopes to receive some special attention of its own when it makes its first stab at securing a place in the history of commercial pop music success stories.
The Diaspora may be moving, but it isn’t going away any time soon
The changes in the Diaspora community.
In the ‘hood, the treat is no trick
Halloween is seen as the crowning achievement of secular emptiness. You celebrate, glorify, trivialize and idolize something as deep and holy as death, and in return, your kids get to gorge on KitKats and day-glow jawbreakers.
The Ranking of Jewish Groups
These Jewish organizations on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy 400 (excluding The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, which the Chronicle accidentally omitted).
Democrats have no beitzim
The most engaging, hard-hitting liberals in this country right now are Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher. But they're not leaders, they're jesters. They tell funny bedtime stories so that about 2 million New York Times readers can fall asleep believing the world hasn't really gone to hell.
Illegal aliens; Dems and Reps; Shocked, just shocked!
Letters to the Editor.
If it wasn’t for Jews, Las Vegas wouldn’t be the town it is today
Located nearly 700 miles east of the The Strip, and founded 70 years before Sin City was first established as a railroad town, Las Vegas, N.M., was an early destination for Jewish settlers hoping to stake a claim in the burgeoning West. Today Las Vegas is largely a Latino town of about 16,000, located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, an hour's drive east of Santa Fe.
Living and Working [Il]legally in America—It’s Not Just for Latinos Anymore
According to statistics compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during 2004 alone, 540 Israelis were deported or about to be deported. If that many Israelis were caught, it stands to reason that there are many thousands more -- in Los Angeles as well as the rest of the United States -- who have not yet been located by authorities.
Rosenbergs’ Granddaughter Tackles Washington ‘Hill’
The Rosenbergs were executed for spying for the Soviet Union in June 1953. Their personal story was told 51 years later by their granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol, in the powerful 2004 documentary, "Heir to an Execution."
More Jewish Parents Picking Secular Path to Camp
"Our images of Jewish camping are formed by people who are heavy Jewish campers, but there are lots of people who are light Jewish campers and campers at non-Jewish camps, and this study accessed their views on Jewish camping," Steven M. Cohen, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion sociologist who authored the study, told The Jewish Journal. "I think we learned that there are diverse incentives and obstacles to participation in Jewish camping."
Hush Falls Over Jewish Hollywood Post-’Mad Mel’
Bernie Brillstein, a veteran talent agent, manager and resident iconoclast, said, "Hollywood is a small company town and you figure everyone is entitled to his position. Anyway, everybody takes it for granted that Gibson is an anti-Semite, so people say, 'Well, he did it again.'"
Cover Story
Cover Story.
Optimistic? Yep.
The most remarkable aspect of the war Israel is fighting now in Lebanon is not who Israel's enemy is, but who its friends are.
My World Cup Runneth Over
Soccer's World Cup, played every four years, is being contested in Germany by 32 national teams from all parts of the world. One week of competition has gone by, three weeks to go before the championship game on July 9. The world is riveted. But not the American sports public, which has reacted with its usual collective yawn.
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Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary
Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited
I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs
Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity
Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.
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Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always
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