WASHINGTON -- Gary Ackerman, one of the veteran Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced he would not run again. Ackerman, who has served 29 years as a Democrat from Queens/Long Island, said he was stepping down at a time that his...
How you perceive South African Judge Richard Goldstone's recent opinion piece in the Washington Post probably depends on who you see when you look in the mirror.If you're a closed-minded, "defend Israel and the Israeli government no matter what" sort,...
With Richard Goldstone himself admitting that the infamous Goldstone Report was critically flawed, this is the best opportunity we have had in two years to bring to light the misconceptions of Operation Cast Lead.In his April 2 op-ed in The Washington...
By Leslie Susser, JTA JERUSALEM
• Published April 13, 2011
Despite Israel's rejection of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war a year-and-a-half ago, the international criticism it engendered has led the Israel Defense Forces to make a number of significant changes in policy and doctrine. And they'll stay even...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 13, 2011
Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and Rabbi Steve Gutow, president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, became close friends when each worked in St. Louis before assuming...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA NEW YORK
• Published April 6, 2011
Richard Goldstone's original U.N. report on the Gaza war of 2008-09 landed like a bombshell in the PR war over Israel, damaging Israel's reputation around the world with its finding that Israel potentially committed war crimes and crimes against humanity...
By Ron Kampeas and Marcy Oster, JTA
• Published April 4, 2011
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would launch an international campaign to cancel the Goldstone Report after its author, ex-South African Judge Richard Goldstone, wrote in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that Israel did not...
