By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published September 28, 2011
After the mutual accusations of ethnic cleansing and the sarcastic posturing, the ball is back in the Palestinians' court. The upshot of last week's Lollapalooza of speechmaking at the United Nations is that the Obama administration has succeeded in persuading...
"I sent the club a wire stating, ‘Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.'" - Groucho MarxGroucho's form of comedy can best be described as calculated anarchy. He and his brothers struck fiercely...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA JERUSALEM
• Published September 14, 2011
Retired Israeli Air Force pilot Uri Dromi remembers the day 34 years ago when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel to tell the Israeli people that he was ready to make peace.Dromi, who had flown missions in the 1967 Six-Day War against Egypt,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published September 14, 2011
Several parents whose children attend either Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy (RJA) or Solomon Schechter Day School of St. Louis (SSDS) expressed cautious optimism in the wake of learning about a possible merger of the two schools for the...
To paraphrase a lyric of a pop song of a few years back, we "sure could use some good news" to balance so much bad and even terrible news coming out of the Middle East in recent days. The "Arab Spring" seems to be morphing into an "Israeli Winter" with...
The Palestinian Authority is using a year-old qualified statement by President Obama in a campaign for support for its statehood recognition bid. "When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2011
Rabbi James Bennett of Congregation Shaare Emeth can't help but chuckle a bit when asked if debate over Mideast policy is different inside the Jewish State than it is within the largest Jewish community in the world, the United States. "It's one of the...
In the Book of Enoch, a second century BCE Jewish Apocrypha, the Behemoth (who is also referenced in the Book of Job) is the land monster and Leviathan the sea monster (there's also Ziz, the sky monster, but we'll save him for another day).Last week on...
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...
The 42-year reign of terror and terrorism of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi at long last seems to be coming to an end. But will that end invite a democratic transition or portend something that more closely resembles the atrocities of Qaddafi's reign?Over...
By Gail Appleson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 17, 2011
NEW YORK - Tucked away in a congested street in the heart of New York City's Chinatown, squeezed between noisy restaurants, beauty salons and even a Buddhist temple, is an unexpected gem of American Jewish history. The Eldridge Street Synagogue, which...
BY ABBY ABRAMS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2011
Israel advocacy. Middle East policy updates. Young professionals.These subjects and much more will all be discussed at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Midwest Diplomatic Conference next month.The Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest will...
