Iran election offers choice, but little change

Published on June 11, 2013

Friday's presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose supreme leader has ensured hardline candidates dominate the field. But the sole moderate could yet upset the race.

The Turkic Islamic world uniting with Israel as a sovereign entity

Published on March 1, 2013

Over the last few years, one of the questions that I have been often asked is: Is Turkey leaving the West? Is Turkey's axis shifting? Is Turkey turning its back on the West?

Despite Morsi changes, Egypt’s opposition protesting draft constitution

Published on December 10, 2012

Egypt's opposition said it would continue to protest an upcoming referendum on a draft constitution even after President Mohamed Morsi canceled decrees that gave him virtually unlimited power.

Iran stirring tensions in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province

Published on August 21, 2012

In the restive city of Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the older Shiites are quiet. They had once cheered the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran and had hoped their time had come for greater equality in the kingdom. But that dream has faded.

Islamic school loses right to use building over anti-Semitic teachings

Published on May 17, 2012

A Toronto Islamic school has lost the right to use a public school for its classes after anti-Semitic teachings were discovered in its curriculum and posted on its website.

French Islamic militants planned to kidnap Jewish judge

Published on April 3, 2012

Suspected Islamic militants arrested throughout France were planning terrorist attacks including kidnapping a Jewish judge.

France arrests suspected Islamic militants

Published on March 30, 2012

Police commandos arrested 19 suspected Islamic militants in raids on Friday in several French cities including Toulouse, where seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman this month.

Arrests in France, Sarkozy compares shooting trauma to 9/11

Published on March 30, 2012

Following a sweep of arrests of suspected Islamic militants, French President Nicolas Sarkozy compared the fatal attack outside a Jewish school in Toulouse to the trauma of 9/11.

Santorum spokeswoman: Obama’s ‘radical Islamic policies’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 21, 2012

Israel police arrest Hamas lawmaker in East Jerusalem

Published on September 26, 2011

Israeli police arrested a Hamas lawmaker on Monday who had been sheltering for more than a year in the International Red Cross (ICRC) offices in East Jerusalem, a police spokesman said.

NATION/WORLD Briefs: Netanyahu Asks Peres for Coalition Help, Teachers Reject Israel Boycott

Published on March 18, 2009

Escape, exile, rebirth: Iranian Jewish diaspora alive and well in Los Angeles

By Karmel Melamed
Published on September 4, 2008

Thirty years have passed since the massive and violent demonstrations against the Shah of Iran that began in September 1978, and for many, the start of that country's bloody revolution might seem a faded memory. Yet I have carried those shattering events with me all of my life: I was born on in Tehran on Sept. 11, 1978, as chaos unfolded on the streets outside

Sion Ebrahami: I was taken hostage by the moujahadeen

By Karmel Melamed
Published on September 4, 2008

With the passage of time, we realized that these people were from three factions within the firm, which included the Mojahedeen faction, the communist faction and there were the very fanatic pro-Khomeini faction

PBS ‘Resurgence’ documentary explores reappearance of anti-Semitism

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 4, 2007

PBS 'Resurgence' documentary explores reappearance of anti-Semitism.

‘Dumb Jews’ react, more politics, more Israel

Published on October 26, 2006

Reaction to "Dumb Jews" cover story and other letters to the Editor

Maher Hathout—partner for peace or anti-Semite in centrist clothing?

By Marc Ballon
Published on September 14, 2006

Dr. Maher Hathout, like no other local Muslim leader in recent memory, has divided the Jewish community, exposing fissures between Jews who fervently believe in reviving the frayed Jewish-Muslim dialogue and those who have lost faith.

Left Coast peacemakers mourn 9/11 in many languages

By Naomi Glauberman
Published on September 14, 2006

Quartet of Movies to Tell Pearl’s Story

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 1, 2006

Filmmakers are currently wrestling with four different projects to document or dramatize the story of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in early 2002, leaving behind a pregnant wife.

Iranian Colored Band Report Discredited

By Karmel Melamed
Published on May 25, 2006

Rumors of anti-Semitic laws in Iran have disturbed local Iranian Jews who have been increasingly concerned for the safety of roughly 25,000 Jews still living in Iran since Ahmadinejad denied the existence of the Holocaust and called for Israel to "wiped off the map" late last year.

The Ties That Bind Two Schools of Faith

By Susan Josephs
Published on September 22, 2005

For the past four years, Kadosh and Alfi have been meeting regularly to exchange pedagogical advice, offer insight into each other's communities, pay visits to the other's turf and, above all, continually affirm how educators of different faiths can help each other.

These two women have formed a solid friendship, and whether or not that will eventually lead to an enduring bridge between Jewish and Arab educators in Los Angeles, they have set an important precedent.

Q & A With Richard Z.Chesnoff

By Marc Ballon
Published on September 8, 2005

n his decades as a journalist, foreign correspondent Richard Z. Chesnoff has reported from around the globe, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Over the years, Chesnoff -- a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report, columnist for the New York Daily News and author of several acclaimed books, including "Pack of Thieves: How Hitler & Europe Plundered the Jews" (Anchor, 2001) -- has chronicled such historic events as the birth of the PLO, the Vietnam peace talks, the 1967 Six-Day War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and, more recently, the rising tide of Islamic terrorism.

Immigration Plan Poses Challenges

By Ira Mehlman
Published on January 22, 2004

President Bush's Jan. 7 proposal to dramatically expand immigration to the United States ignited a national debate about this highly emotional issue. While this is a critical policy that will profoundly affect all Americans, it is a policy that must be of particular concern to American Jews.

Morocco Bombings Shock Emigres

By Philip Carmel
Published on May 22, 2003

"We are deeply shocked, but we are not afraid," Serge Berdugo said. "People here know it is a global fight against the terrorists, the same for Muslims as for Jews. There were no victims from our own community, but this has come like a bolt from the blue."

Ninth Circuit Misses on Iran

By Nathan D. Wirtschafter
Published on December 12, 2002

I once appeared in court to ask that three additional defendants be held liable on a judgment.

Get Out Your Crystal Ball

By Jonathan S. Tobin
Published on September 12, 2002

As the Jewish Exponent went to press with its Rosh Hashana issue last year, Islamic terrorists launched their war on the United States on Sept. 11, and everything changed.

Homeland Insecurity

By Boaz Ganor
Published on August 15, 2002

In November of 1994, PBS aired nationwide an unforgettable documentary titled, "Jihad in America." Recognizing as it did -- a year after the first attack on the World Trade Center -- the concrete dangers posed by the radical Islam network beginning to burgeon in the United States, the film caused an upheaval in the perceptions of many viewers -- just the reaction Steven Emerson wanted.

Homeland Insecurity

By Boaz Ganor
Published on August 15, 2002

In November of 1994, PBS aired nationwide an unforgettable documentary titled, "Jihad in America."

Control Issues

By Gil Sedan
Published on March 28, 2002

Suppose for a second that Israel strikes a cease-fire deal with Yasser Arafat. Would the Palestinian Authority president be able to deliver? Arafat himself may not know for sure, as the extent of control he retains over the many military factions he has created or allowed to flourish in his territory is unclear.

The Man Who Knows Too Much

By Jonathan S. Tobin
Published on March 21, 2002

It began by happenstance. CNN reporter Steve Emerson was stuck in Oklahoma City on Christmas 1992 with nothing to do and wandered by the city's convention center, where a gathering of the Muslim Arab Youth Association was taking place.

Your Letters

Published on August 16, 2001

>I long for the day when the editor of any mainstream Palestinian or Islamic publication feels both the need and the license to chastise his readership as Rob Eshman did ("The Other Sides," Aug. 3) by asserting, "It's time for Jewish leaders and organizations to stop oversimplifying the complex equation that must eventually work itself out in the Middle East."