There's never a good time for anti-Semitism, but in the context of current efforts to delegitimize Israel and artists' boycotts of performances there, now is a particularly troubling time.Oliver Stone, the Oscar-winning film director, recently made egregious...
Polls are not good tools for protecting the Constitution.A recent Rasmussen Poll reports that 54 percent of respondents oppose the construction of an expanded Islamic community center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, while 20 percent favor its construction.As...
The provocative article written by Peter Beinert in the New York Review of Books this spring, and the piercing debate about it that followed, point to the prospect of tough slogging ahead between Israel and the Diaspora. The conversion bill now before...
Last week we published a front-page story by JTA's Ron Kampeas that was headlined: "Nice photo-op, but what did Obama and Bibi discuss?" Is anything other than pleasant platitudes to come of this recent meeting?Last March, the White House was smarting...
As former Israeli Air Force member Yonatan Shapira was defacing the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto with pro-Palestinian graffiti last week, we wonder if he took time to consider some of the choice words Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has uttered through the...
It was strangely ironic that the meteoric fall of the career of General Stanley McChrystal came during the very period of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, during which another distinguished and brilliant general, Douglas MacArthur, was relieved...
Several weeks ago we wrote about the so-called Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to strip Israel of foreign investment and support. We wrote that the more accurate appellation would be the DeLegitimize Israel (DLI) movement, since...
The expression "talking turkey" is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as "to discuss in a straightforward and direct manner." There is a more pungent Yiddish equivalent to the expression called "talking tachlis," or getting down to brass tacks....
Why does the world take solace in hate?When things go bad, we seem to revel in our loathing. We blame, we curse, we lash out, we condemn. We do just about anything other than accept personal responsibility.Thus, activists who send ships in to challenge...
Notwithstanding the ignominy of the June, 1964 trade that sent him to the Chicago Cubs for Hall of Famer-to-be Lou Brock, Ernie Broglio had been a fine pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. His almost immediate decline after the deal, alone with Brock's...
In our opinion, here's pretty much all you need to know about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which as we go to press has been discarded by both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee (and will go to the full Senate...
There have been few nominees for the United States Supreme Court more credentialed and impressive than Elena Kagan:•Current Solicitor General of the United States, who has argued several key cases before the High Court• Dean of the Harvard Law School...
