JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 25, 2010
If you believe that Middle East peace talks cannot succeed, you probably ought not read any further.We're not interested in mimicking the pundits who remind us again and again why talks are doomed to failure (see examples of such in Editor-in-Chief Emeritus...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 18, 2010
We've written about the proposed Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, and championed the concept of religious freedom. The subsequent dialogue about the project, however, prompts further discussion, not so much about the center...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 11, 2010
Two recent sickening examples of Taliban extremism demonstrate the darkest side of religious hatred, repression and intolerance. Sadly, such incidents make it that much more difficult for peace-minded believers to persuade the world of their intentions...
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...
