Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen
Circumcision is Under Attack in Europe
JNS.org - This week, as Jews across the world celebrate Hanukkah, they also remember the victory of the Maccabees against the brutal rule...
Christian IDF Recruitment Numbers Affirm Israeli Democracy
JNS.org - Over the summer, the Israeli media highlighted a phenomenon that is both intriguing and encouraging: a movement among Israel's Christian Arabs advocating...
Abandon the Syrian Civil War? Isolation is Never Splendid
JNS.org - Among the handful of post-war leaders who could always be relied upon to support the United States unstintingly, the name of Tony...
Hezbollah: From Terrorism to War Crimes
JNS.org - An unexpected obstacle to efforts within the European Union (EU) to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization emerged last week when the new...
More Peace, Less Process: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has already visited the Middle East four times since President Barack Obama named him to the post back in...
The Church of Scotland’s War on Judaism
In a recent, exhaustive study of anti-Semitism, the German scholar Clemens Heni explains the significance for Christian theology of the story of Ahasver, a Jewish...
What is the Motivation Behind Erdogan Visiting Gaza and Snubbing Kerry?
Of all the half-truths and misconceptions that mar the American debate over the level of influence exercised by Israel on U.S. Middle East policy, the...
Korea, Iran, and the Dual-Loyalty Myth
Here's a term that rarely crops up in discussions of American policy towards northeast Asia: the Korea Lobby. And as for the pejorative term "Korea...
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013: How to Say ‘Never Again’ and Mean It
As we mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 8 for the 60th consecutive year—this somber day was first placed onto the Jewish...
Will Pope Francis I Become the Savior of the Persecuted Church?
Christianity is the world's largest religion. And with more than 1 billion members, the Roman Catholic Church is its largest denomination. Anyone who watched the...
Police Deny Taliban Involvement in Murder of Swedish Christian Aid Worker in Pakistan
Police continue to deny that Swedish Christian aid worker Birgitta Almby—who was fatally shot by two assailants outside of her Lahore, Pakistan home this month...
Time to Challenge the ‘Palestine-Firsters’
Between June and October of this year, Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip launched almost 260 attacks, the vast majority involving rockets and missiles,...
Four More Years of Middle East Noise
Back in September, when it seemed as if there was everything to play for in the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama likened Israeli...
Assault From Gaza Highlights Myriad Threats to Israel
I cannot be the only person wondering whether we would have watched a rather different presidential debate on foreign policy had the last Obama-Romney encounter...
