NEW YORK (JTA) — The recent decision by the Israeli government both to produce a “blacklist” of organizations that support BDS in order to prevent their leaders’ entry to Israel, as well as to share this blacklist with the media, is difficult...
NEW YORK (JTA) — On Season 3 of “The West Wing,” a bomb goes off outside a cafe on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, killing two American students.“What were they doing there?” asks C.J., the White House press secretary.C.J.’s question always...
NEW YORK — Arguably the world’s greatest writer of fiction about the world’s foremost nonfiction atrocity, the Holocaust, died Thursday in Israel. Aharon Appelfeld, a Holocaust survivor himself and one of the icons of Israel’s first generation,...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published January 4, 2018
In a demonstration of how completely at odds his views are from those of the foreign policy establishment, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman reportedly asked the State Department to stop using the term “occupied territories” and instead refer...
Preserve crucial foreign assistance fundingYour Dec. 27 editorial “Persistence, not Petulance “ notes the need for international cooperation to counter global threats, and quotes President Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy blueprint for the...
BY RABBI YONASON GOLDSON
• Published December 28, 2017
Parents worry about children. It’s what we do.When they’re infants, we worry about every sniffle and cough. When they’re in grade school, we worry about bumps and bruises. When they enter adolescence, we worry about their hormones and teenage...
The reality of climate changeProfessor Marty Rochester’s Dec. 20 commentary contains so many misstatements that I almost don’t know where to begin. To his credit, Rochester acknowledges that man-made climate change is real and is a potentially very...
PORTLAND, Ore. — As a 27-year-old female Hillel executive director, I spend my days focused on enriching the lives of Jewish students in my community. Working for an organization with a mission and vision so closely aligned with my values is a privilege....
I read with special interest the New York Times front page report Nov. 14 that George David Banks, “special adviser to President Trump on international energy issues, led a panel with top American energy executives” at the United Nations conference...
Editor’s note: Commentary writer Merrick Felder is the grandson of World War I veteran William Rothman (1890-1988). Items from Rothman’s time in the service are included in the exhibition, “Untold Sacrifices: The St. Louis Jewish Community in the...
By Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch
• Published December 18, 2017
We were wrong.As Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky pointed out, “The Reform response to the recognition of Jerusalem was terrible. When … a superpower recognizes Jerusalem, first you … welcome it, then offer disagreement. Here it was the opposite.”Sharansky...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published December 14, 2017
If there is one thing the overwhelmingly liberal American Jewish community generally agrees on these days, it’s President Donald Trump. The vast majority of Jews are loyal Democrats and, for the most part, supportive of the anti-Trump “resistance.”...
