Jewish History
A New Image for Israel
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Coming to Israel
The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...
Force or Diplomacy?
Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...
From Midway to the Mideast
In the latest issue of Newsweek, NYC District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a professor at the ...
Kurt Waldheim, Dead at 88
This just in: Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German ...
Is the PA Disbanding?
GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...
Don’t call it a comeback
Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...
Come fly the unfriendly skies
El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...
Boycotting Israel
Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...
Poverty & Racism in Israel
POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...
Hebrew school revisited
PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...
Finkelstein Denied Tenure
The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...