Why is the Jewish Council for Public Affairs making a nuclear-armed Iran its principal concern in the year to come? Keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a goal that unites people of diverse races, ethnic backgrounds, nationalities and religions....
S. Erwin Jacobs ChesterfieldM
• Published May 8, 2007
Librescu saved lives It is both ironic and profoundly tragic that Holocaust survivor, Professor Liviu Librescu, would lose his life in the Virginia Tech massacres on April 16, which is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This date in the Jewish calendar...
Troubles seem to mount by the minute for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Less than a year after he succeeded his larger-than-life predecessor Ariel Sharon when the latter was felled by a stroke, Olmert, who had attempted to continue the centrist values...
However damning Judge Eliyahu Winograd's report may be regarding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's conduct of the second war in Lebanon, it would be far more damning and destructive for Israel if the political leaders seeking to replace Mr. Olmert lose sight...
We're at it again, defining the lines of who's in and who's out as the debate on Jewish continuity in America rages on. Steven M. Cohen's latest sociological study on intermarriage, titled "The Tale of Two Jewries," argues that intermarriage is the single...
Alexander Sukhodolsky University City
• Published May 1, 2007
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By a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court, in a ruling described by dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as "alarming," upheld for the first time a restriction on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, by approving a ban on what is called "partial...
The New Jewish Theatre has reason to kvell over the recent Kevin Kline Award to Donna Weinsting who played the mother in the three generation play From Door to Door. Donna, who was honored for her "Outstanding Performance by an Actress", was in competition...
Surprised, pleased and flattered as we at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), were to learn that our Israel operation had won the esteemed Israel Prize this year, we took time to thank our well-wishers, then sat down to ask ourselves:...
The recent flap over former radio-TV "shock-jock" Don Imus over racist and sexist words he used to defame the Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team is only the most recent example of the maxim that words can cause real harm and hurt, especially when...
The ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan has already claimed the lives of at least 200,000 innocent men, women and children, and perhaps as many as 400,000, and uprooted 2.5 million people from their homes. Efforts by the international community...
The U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the usual cries of protest from abortion rights advocates and, also as usual, they include an assortment of Jewish groups and The New York Times.That latter...
