Posts Tagged: American Jewish community
Romney’s Jewish Surge: Jeff Ballabon Returns to Rallying Orthodox Jewish Republicans (INTERVIEW)
Mitt Romney is sweating. Polls show the election will be very close, and he must carry either Ohio or Florida to rack up enough Electoral College...
Jimmy Carter Blames Israel for ‘Vanishing’ Peace
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lamented the "vanishing" prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace during a trip to Jerusalem this week, blaming Israeli policies. Carter called the current...
Foreign Policy Debate: What American Jewish Leaders Would Like to Ask the Candidates
With hours to go before President Obama will go head to head against challenger Mitt Romney in the third and final presidential debate of the...
The Failure of the American Jewish Left
In early September 2012, many in the pro-Israel camp were disturbed by a series of events at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. First, the...
The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...
Tongue Tied on Terrorism—Again
The controversy over how to define the attack on the American consulate in Libya is not the first time the U.S. government has raised eyebrows...
Opinion: Jerusalem and US Politics
One of the strangest episodes at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the controversy that erupted over how Jerusalem would appear in...
American Jewish Organizations Must Support Government Funding For Jewish Schools
Government provides aid to Jewish schools in Australia, Britain and Canada - and it is high time that the Jewish community in America demands the...
Norman Finkelstein: The BBC Legitimizes a Crank
The BBC has a strange set of editorial guidelines. According to a leaked memo sent to BBC staff by the network's senior manager, Abu Qatada...
Anti-Israel Norman Finkelstein on BBC’s Hardtalk Claims American Jews are Deserting Israel (VIDEO)
Norman Finkelstein continued his ongoing criticism of Israel in a recent appearance on the BBC's Hardtalk program. He started off by saying that surveys show...
Koch: My End of Year Lament
Almost everyone who lives in New York City knows that I am Jewish. Most know that I am a secular Jew who believes in God,...
Obama’s Secret Remarks About Netanyahu
So French President Nicolas Sarkozy, not knowing his microphone is hot, expresses his contempt for Bibi Netanyahu, calls him a liar, and President...
France’s UNESCO Shame
The French vote yesterday in favor of the admission of 'Palestine' as a member state of UNESCO was a big disappointment to many...
