NEW YORK (JTA)—When news outlets began reporting last Friday that the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times had published an opinion column seemingly suggesting that Israel might be wise to assassinate President Obama, the response from prominent American...
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz, JTA
• Published January 13, 2012
WASHINGTON -- About a year and half ago, I participated in a fact-finding mission to Israel sponsored by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arabs (IATF). Established in 2006 as a consortium of some of the major organizations in American Jewish life...
A Brooklyn jewelry store owner agreed to stop selling swastika earrings amid criticism from Jewish leaders. Young Sook Kim, the owner Bejeweled in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, had initially defended the earrings claiming that the swastikas represented...
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe renewed the posting of Rabbi Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee to its top anti-Semitism post. On Wednesday, AJC said that the OSCE had reappointed Baker to be its personal representative...
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of religious institutions to use "ministerial exception" to fire staff, but stopped short of setting its parameters. A number of Jewish groups had closely watched the case called Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran...
The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. Its subject was an 8-year-old girl harassed by Haredi men on the way to her Modern Orthodox girls' school in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh. The Israeli...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, Washington
• Published July 19, 2011
Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britainand Australia are warily watching the unfolding of thephone-hacking scandal that is threatening to engulf the mediaempire of Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corp (see relatededitorial on page 8).Murdoch's...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2011
A local business executive with a history of community and federation involvement has been named as the next president of the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis. Bob Millstone, 48, president of the the Millstone Company and grandson of noted community...
By Alex Weisler, JTA, New York
• Published June 22, 2011
When it comes to passing a gay marriage bill in New York State, even many supporters acknowledge that wide-reaching religious exemptions are crucial. After all, this is the state with the nation's second-largest number of Catholics and largest number...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, Washington
• Published June 22, 2011
Among the issues the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when it reconvenes next October is whether an American born in Jerusalem may list his birthplace as Israel in his passport. That case probably will garner the most Jewish attention in a fall docket...
By Sue Fishkoff, JTA, SAN FRANCISCO
• Published June 1, 2011
In November, San Franciscans will vote on a ballot measure that would outlaw circumcision on boys under the age of 18.Although experts say it is highly unlikely the measure will pass-very few state propositions pass, much less one this controversial-the...
In Texas Hold ‘Em parlance, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gone all in. In his Monday opinion piece in the New York Times, Abbas has said to the world that the future of Israel doesn't matter one iota. In essence, he's proven that...
