Jewish National Fund (JNF-USA) will host a Lawyers for Israel event on Thursday, Nov. 7 at Husch Blackwell, 190 Carondelet Plaza, Suite 600. This complimentary event will begin promptly at 11:30 a.m., with registration opening at 11, and will feature...
A recent economic summit conference in Bahrain was designed to further efforts toward peaceful dialogue among Jews, Muslims and Christians. But as Rabbi Marc Schneier, principal organizer of the meeting, told a St. Louis audience recently, the absence...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS.org
• Published June 1, 2017
In a seminal piece for The Atlantic last September, journalist Salena Zito explained a simple truth that most people hadn’t grasped about the man who was about to be elected the 45th president of the United States. Simply put, his numerous critics took...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 15, 2017
People, especially the young and women, have replaced oil as the greatest asset in the Middle East, according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Albright and Hadley, co-chairs of the Middle...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 1, 2017
President Donald Trump faces “unprecedented challenges” in the volatile Middle East, says Dennis Ross, who has served in key Middle East negotiating roles under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and as a special adviser for the Persian...
Nusach Hari B’nai Zion will welcome Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., for a presentation on “Middle East Policy in a Changing Middle East: Israel, Iran and the Arab Spring” as a special Synaplex Shabbat on Saturday, May 12. The Synaplex Shabbat series...
