September 9, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on September 9, 2012

May 15, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 15, 2012

For the record: Sherman didn’t flip-flop to attack Berman

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on January 19, 2012

20 questions with John McCain

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 3, 2008

Interview with presidential candidate Senator John McCain and a transcript of remarks by the Senator to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

John McCain’s running mate

By Steve Greenberg
Published on April 3, 2008

Cartoon about Senator John McCain and the Iraq War.

The price of smugness

By Steve Greenberg
Published on March 20, 2008

Cartoon about gas prices and Iraq War.

Will Jews give Obama a chance?

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on March 13, 2008

Obama needs to tell his story about the Jewish community and Israel before his opponents tell their version. If he waits to respond to Clinton's charges, it may already be too late. He needs to discuss his experiences in Chicago's Jewish community, talk about his personal connections to Israel and provide reassurance in his own words.

Budget black hole

By Steve Greenberg
Published on February 28, 2008

Cartoon about cost of Iraq war.

New U.S. administration won’t mean new Mideast policy

By Michael Young
Published on February 21, 2008

For months, we've been hearing the presidential candidates promise American voters "change." But as the U.S. primaries move beyond their half-way point, here is a prediction: Whoever becomes president in 2008 will pursue the same policies as the Bush administration in the Middle East, because there is little latitude to do otherwise.

The NIE, Iran, presidential politics and the Jews

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on December 13, 2007

The release last week of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear ambitions stunned the nation's capital. After being buried for a year, the NIE has deflated the Bush administration's case on Iran by stating that Iran halted its program to develop a nuclear weapon in 2003.

Progressives should join Jews on Iran strategy

By Andrew Lachman
Published on November 8, 2007

Progressives need to reach out to their natural allies in the Jewish community by acknowledging that the threats of nuclear proliferation and international terrorism exist and support the same reasoned, international approach of sanctions and international pressure that has helped bring the North Korean nuclear program under control.

Briefs: Yavneh wants city to investigate Kol Nidrei incident; Congressmembers slam Moran for 'Jewish influence' comment

Published on October 4, 2007

Community briefs.

How Walt and Mearsheimer’s book got the pro-Israel lobby wrong

By Ron Kampeas
Published on September 20, 2007

Questions about how Jews, Israel, the pro-Israel lobby and the U.S. government interact are critically important and beg for a little light. But "The Israel Lobby" is not the place to start. All Walt and Mearsheimer have achieved with their massive diversion based on unfounded accusations of overly broad Jewish influence is to help those who want to shut down that discussion.

Petraeus here, Sir, with my surge report

By Steve Greenberg
Published on September 20, 2007

Cartoon.

Jew-Baiting

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 8, 2007

Five years ago, before the start of the Iraq War, I wrote an editorial titled "The Jewish War." If the Iraq War is a disaster, I wrote, mainstream voices will start blaming the Jews.

Shouldering the burden in Iraq

By Steve Greenberg
Published on July 12, 2007

Cartoon.

Bush’s ‘neocons’: far from the best and the brightest

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on July 12, 2007

Today's neocons are far from the best and the brightest. They are largely amateur armchair warriors given to cheap rhetoric and bombast. They toss around "regime change" as if governments will fall when they snap their fingers.

Light at the end of the tunnel

By Steve Greenberg
Published on May 10, 2007

Cartoon.

Tel Aviv trauma expert assists U.S. military

By Avi Hein
Published on April 26, 2007

An Israeli professor studying the long-term effects of war on the soldiers who fight is now sharing her knowledge with United States counterparts in an attempt to provide better therapy for American servicemen and women returning home from the battlefields of Iraq.

At Odds

By Steve Greenberg
Published on April 5, 2007

Cartoon.

Where are the other Jewish anti-war voices?

By Leonard Fein
Published on March 22, 2007

We must stand for victory In Iraq

By Paul Kujawsky
Published on March 22, 2007

It's gotten pretty lonely.

A convention of Democrats who still support the Iraq war could be held, if not in a phone booth, then in a medium-sized walk-in closet.

Dems win won’t hurt Israel but could impact Iran

By Ron Kampeas
Published on November 16, 2006

The tone of the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the same whoever controls Congress, but Democratic pledges to stringently oversee the Iraq war could affect how the United States confronts Iran. Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in Nov. 7 elections, the latter conclusively decided with Sen. George Allen's concession of the Virginia race on Nov. 9.Bipartisan support for Israel would be constant, Jewish and Israeli officials said, defying a pre-election barrage of Republic Jewish Coalition ads that insisted that the Democratic Party's support for Israel was eroding.

The End of Bush’s ‘Jewish Moment’

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on March 16, 2006

Republicans once had high hopes that George W. Bush would draw American Jews away from their historic affinity with Democrats into embracing the conservative party. They believed that Jews would be drawn to Bush's intense support for the State of Israel.

Nation & World Briefs

Published on November 24, 2005

National, International, World briefs, news. The Reform movement passed a resolution criticizing the handling of the Iraq war and seeking a partial troop withdrawal.

AJC Poll Punctures Political Wisdom

By James D. Besser
Published on January 15, 2004

The 2003 American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey of Jewish public opinion released this week was hard on the propagators of political conventional wisdom.

Jewish Values Guide Marine’s Life in Iraq

By Mordecai Finley
Published on August 7, 2003

We lost e-mail contact with our son, Kayitz, when he and his Marine unit disembarked from their ship on Feb. 24. From just about the beginning of the Iraq War, though, we knew what he was going through.