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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Some Operas You Won’t Be Seeing at the Met
JNS.org - Here are three operas that won't get staged at the famed Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York City anytime soon. "Omar." The story of a...
Why the Kurds Are a Beacon of Hope in the Middle East
JNS.org - During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein...
Fatah-Hamas Government Reflects American Weakness
JNS.org - I've long argued that any proper understanding of the Palestinian conflict with Israel's legitimacy is compromised by not taking wider regional factors...
Is Rockefeller Brothers Fund Consciously Helping to Delegitimize Israel?
JNS.org - The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is one of the more august grant-making institutions in the United States. Founded in 1940 by the...
Why the Iraqi Jewish Archive Belongs in America
JNS.org - When I last wrote about the archive of Jewish treasures from Iraq rescued by U.S. forces in Baghdad in 2003, I noted that...
The Coming, Fearsome Test for French Jews
JNS.org - France has a rich Jewish history and a vibrant Jewish community of approximately 500,000 souls. At the same time, France is a...
Misplaced Optimism Over Iran
JNS.org - When Hassan Rouhani was elected as Iran's president in June 2013, you could hear the sighs of relief in Washington, in...
Enough is Enough: Time to Get Tough With Abbas
JNS.org - "I believe that President [Mahmoud] Abbas is sincere about his willingness to recognize Israel and its right to exist, to recognize Israel's...
Kansas Hate Crime Didn’t Emerge From a Vacuum
JNS.org - When you look at the image of Frazier Glenn Cross, AKA Glenn Miller, the shooter who cold-bloodedly murdered three Christians in a...
American Jews Must Wake Up to Anti-Semitism of Hungary’s Jobbik Party
JNS.org - When one in five people in a key European state votes for a neo-Nazi party, you might expect a furious response from...
Iran’s New U.N. Ambassador is Latest Outrage: Will U.S. Take Action?
JNS.org - As its next ambassador to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Iran has appointed a man who participated in the seizure...
The Stateless People You’ve Never Heard Of
JNS.org - Here's the setting: a Middle Eastern state filled with skyscrapers and luxury hotels, and blessed with a booming business environment and the...
Israel’s Identity as Jewish State at Heart of Mideast Conflict
JNS.org - Ah, the devious Benjamin Netanyahu! Just when we are on the cusp of a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations, Israel's slippery prime...
The Answer to BDS Bullies and ‘Open Hillel’
JNS.org - It's getting harder these days to survey the latest developments in the Middle East without feeling anxiety about the negative impact they...
