Full text of Obama’s speech to the Muslim world below the jump, here is the clip about Israel and Palestine. (Note how “Palestine” and not
In her recent graduation speech at JTS, my boss Ruth Messinger called on us to “work for greater equity, for social justice, and for global
Many folks don’t know that The Forward editor Larry Cohler-Esses lived in Iran for five years and speaks fluent Farsi. So when he and Nathan
Read Rabbi Sid Schwartz’s enormously important piece in the Jewish Week in which he describes and comments on this chilling experience at a Salute to
I have been watching with enthralled pleasure as the Obama administration begins treating Israel not as a pampered toddler but as the adult country it
If you don’t know about my obsession with Sabra, the Jewish superhero, then just Google around — I’m kind of a sucker for her. I
Driving back from our Shavuos retreat weekend, BZ and I were talking about the [false] theological practice of substituting names for HaShem. BZ cited that
Avigdor Lieberman’s loyalty oath failed to pass a Knesset committee hearing. How one can swear a “pledge of loyalty to Israel as a Jewish, Zionist,
It is, of course, people who make up the cities of one’s imagination; the cities that we hold dearest and closest when we plot the