TEL AVIV - Amid global events of the past few years that are changing the world - the rising power of the BRICs economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the global economic crisis, the rise of social networks and, most recently, the popular uprisings...
By Edgar M. Bronfman and Adam R. Bronfman
• Published August 10, 2011
NEW YORK - For the Arab Spring, Israel represents the hope that in the Middle East, a nation can be both a national homeland and a free society. Israel is a modern, thriving democracy amid a region dominated by despotic regimes that brutally oppress their...
I recently spent two weeks in Israel. Although things are quite good economically and day to day, this is a moment of very serious concern.The most immediate issue is a likely Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), and request for admission...
By Leslie Susser, JTA, Jerusalem
• Published June 22, 2011
The pressure on Mahmoud Abbas to back down from plans to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September is intensifying.Squeezed by a combination of concerted American pressure and intense Israeli diplomacy, some top Palestinian...
HOLON, Israel-Just two days earlier but a world away, 8-year-old Salha Farjalla Khamis said goodbye to her parents and four siblings in her village on the African island of Zanzibar.Later, in a hospital in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon, tears roll silently...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
If anyone still has questions about how Israel has lost the public relations campaign against the Palestinians, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin explain in non-judgmental prose what has happened since 2000 to isolate the Jewish state. In the introduction...
Interfaith understanding and ‘Klinghoffer' operaI commend the efforts of the Jewish Light, through its articles in the current issue, in addressing issues raised by the scheduled performance of "The Death of Klinghoffer" by Opera Theatre of St. Louis.The...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published June 1, 2011
Remember the tension a couple of weeks ago between Israel and the United States? That was all about avoiding tension between Israel and the rest of the world. That's what Obama administration officials are telling Jewish officials looking ahead to September,...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 25, 2011
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, prolific author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said he does "not believe President Barack Obama is anti-Israel." He added that the president's controversial speech last week at the State Department calling for a peace...
New York, NY - The American Jewish Committee is a global advocacy organization that has long been committed to achieving a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a two-state accord.In that effort, we have met countless times...
One of the most powerful and memorable books I ever read was "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, which provides glimpses into the relationships between black and white women in 1962 Mississippi. After I finished the book, I spent a lot of time thinking about...
One would think that the terrorist group Hamas could never appear to be relatively "moderate" or more accurately less extreme than other factions in the Gaza Strip. But the recent murder of pro-Palestinian Hamas supporter and Italian activist Vittorio...
