Do not let U.N. Security Council resolution divide our communityThe Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis believes in the power of people to come together to influence change in our region. Our capacity to make an impact is based on our ability...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published August 31, 2016
Some of the harshest critics of Israel have, as we have mentioned in these pages, repeatedly accused the Jewish State of “genocide” toward the Palestinians. The Movement for Black Lives recently produced a platform containing this false and inappropriate...
Sadistic Syrian leader Bashar Assad must be ousted from power at the earliest possible date, to stop the blatant atrocities occurring in that nation. To do so, the international community must put vastly more pressure on Assad’s regime, both diplomatically...
By Jay Sekulow and Robert Ash, JTA
• Published March 11, 2012
WASHINGTON—In a world where nuclear weapons could soon be in the hands of a rogue nation like Iran, an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be fully justified. Despite its ban on aggressive war, Article 51 of the United Nations...
NEW YORK -- The U.N. Security Council condemned the attack on an Israeli official in India. In a statement released Thursday by the council's rotating president, Kodjo Menan of Togo, council members "condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack...
JERUSALEM -- Iran denied involvement in recent attacks on Israeli diplomats and accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientists, in a letter to the United Nations Security Council. Israel has made "unfounded allegations and distortions" against...
By Zach Silberman, JTA
• Published February 22, 2012
WASHINGTON—As the Syrian government intensifies its assault on opposition strongholds, the debate is heating up in Washington over how to end the bloody crackdown and bring about regime change.The Obama administration has tried to ratchet up pressure...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Arabs demonstrated against Syrian President Bashar Assad a day after the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning his crackdown on dissenters. The General Assembly voted Feb. 16 by a vote of 137 to 12 with...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 28, 2011
There have been oceans of ink, forests of paper and countless electronic communications about last week's drama at the United Nations, where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presented a formal request to the United Nations Security Council...
Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the organization, are able and willing to carry out those obligations. What is "peace-loving"?Peace...
How does a country become a U.N. Member?Membership in the United Nations, according to Chapter II, Article 4, Section 1., of the United Nations Charter "is open to all....peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the .....Charter and,...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published August 17, 2011
On Sept. 20, when the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present a Palestinian request for statehood recognition to the U.N. Security...
