Editor's note: This commentary is part of a new Point-Counterpoint series in the Light. Read Galit Lev Harir's counterpoint commentary here.Many in the American Jewish community as well as in the Israeli Jewish community were encouraged and even delighted...
Editor's note: This commentary is part of a new Point-Counterpoint series in the Light. Read Robert Gerchen's counterpoint commentary here.On May 14, President Donald Trump officially moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv....
By Pinchas Goldschmidt
• Published August 23, 2018
Israel’s passage of the nation-state law brought another round of barrages across the Atlantic underlining the growing alienation of the world’s two largest Jewish communities. The issues are increasingly familiar: American pluralism versus Jewish...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — PepsiCo will acquire the Israeli home soda maker manufacturer SodaStream for $3.2 billion, the soft drink giant said Monday.PepsiCo plans to maintain the Israeli company’s current base of operations in the Negev. SodaStream will...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published August 16, 2018
August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...
Henry Berger’s Aug. 1 commentary (“Israel has evolved from democracy to theocracy”) demonstrates a lack of understanding and knowledge of the Israeli political system and current issues. Berger attacks the new “basic law” as giving Jews exclusive...
We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — After firing more than 180 rockets into civilian areas, armed terror groups in Gaza said Thursday afternoon that they would refrain from firing on southern Israel if Israel also maintains the calm.Shortly after the announcement, however,...
TEL AVIV — Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I was proud to join tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday night in a peaceful, unifying protest led by...
I was not quite 11 years old May 14, 1948, when the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was read by David Ben-Gurion on the eve of Shabbat and rebroadcast the following night on my great aunt’s shortwave radio. We had just finished...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli lawmaker who was suspended temporarily from the Labor Party amid allegations of sexual harassment filed a libel lawsuit against party leader Avi Gabbay.Eitan Broshi filed the $82,000 lawsuit on Wednesday in the Tel Aviv...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem Post defended its decision to stop using the work of cartoonist Avi Katz after he depicted a group of Israeli lawmakers as pigs.An editorial Tuesday said Katz had “blatantly crossed” the Post’s ethical and editorial...
