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Facing Tomorrow — and Yesterday
There were many surreal moments last Wednesday night, when Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference celebrated the American-Israeli relationship, an evening ...
Baruch Goldstein
The perpetrator of the Hebron massacre is both vilified and celebrated.
Galveston, Sweet Galveston
The story of Jewry and Galveston is one that fascinates me. Many people, even those well-versed in American Jewish history, ...
Blogging Avot: Wieseltier on Identity
At the President’s Conference yesterday, I attended a session called “Jewish Identity: Unraveling or Renewing?” a panel discussion featuring — ...
Go West, Young Man
Recently the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs released an interesting report on the Jewish Communities of the Western United States. ...
Kissinger Faces Tomorrow
I’m currently in Jerusalem at a conference convened by Shimon Peres, entitled Facing Tomorrow, in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday. ...
Just Say No to Bamba
I rarely agree with the Haredim, but recently they have instituted a boycott against Bamba and other Israeli snacks: The ...
Negotiating Peace
Reviewing the efforts of Carter, Jerome M. Segal argues that while “Hamas has indeed said it will never recognize Israel, ...
Conversion Controversy
-The High Rabbinical Court of Israel has ruled that all of the thousands of conversions conducted since 1999 by Rabbi ...
A Hero In Heaven
Today is Yom Hazikaron, Israeli’s Memorial Day. I’d like to take the opportunity to tell our readers about the life ...
Israel’s Memorial & Independence Days
-The last surviving person to have attended the historical afternoon session when Ben Gurion read the scroll establishing the Jewish ...
Jewish Stars, Wives, and Rosaries
-In an earlier day, the Flag of Morocco had the 6-pointed Star of David, “known in Arabic as Khatam Suleyman ...