Did Biden’s visit bury a ‘special relationship’?
March 17, 2010
How to interpret events in Israel over the past week? There are the facts, the spin, and the analyses. First, here are the facts as I understand them. Read More
Squandering a precious asset: America’s trust
March 17, 2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Interior Minister Eli Yishai did more to harm United States-Israel relations than all of Israel’s detractors around the world ever could when they decided it is more important to build 1,600 houses in east Jerusalem than to have good relations with one house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Read More
A Palestinian pretext to undermine our identity
March 10, 2010
Imagine if someone forbade you from seeing your loved ones or banned you from visiting the graves of your grandparents. Imagine they told you that you have no right to come to your family home and your identity was simply a figment of your imagination. Israelis deal with claims like these as a nation each and every day. Read More
In the Mideast, no one people ‘owns’ the past
March 10, 2010
Israel’s decision to include the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb on the list of National Heritage Sites would, at first glance, appear to be one about which every Jew should be pleased. Read More
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Religious freedom — don’t take it for granted
March 3, 2010
I never expected to feel the need to struggle personally for religious freedom — until I visited Israel with members of the board of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel and learned that I — along with many of our Israeli brothers and sisters — do not have full religious freedom there. Read More
When Israel’s legitimacy is under attack
March 3, 2010
The organized American Jewish community and our non-Jewish allies, with broad representation from across political and religious lines, are poised to launch a major initiative to counter the campaign to delegitimize Israel. Read More
What ‘truths’ are our college students learning?
March 3, 2010
Education is central to the Jewish neshama, soul. In the typical American-Jewish family, it is automatically assumed that children will go on to college for at least one degree, if not more. Read More
No single movement owns halachic Judaism
February 24, 2010
As our community was making Purim preparations, we confronted an unexpected conversation. Following the authoritative voices of the Talmud and the normative legal codifiers — including, among others, Maimonides — who allow women to read the Megillat Ester, we decided to host a women’s reading on Sunday morning of Purim. Read More
When leaders lose their sense of mission
February 24, 2010
Sen. John Kerry may not have convinced voters that he was America’s national solution, but at least he correctly diagnosed the government’s problem. “Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people.” Read More
What we talk about when we talk about peace
February 17, 2010
Can anyone tell me what it means to be “pro-peace,” as used by J Street? Jews supposedly were always about peace. Read More
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