Posts Tagged: israel
Israel Film Festival Celebrates Silver Anniversary
For 25 years the Israel Film Festival has enriched the American vision of Israeli life and culture through the powerful medium of film. It is the...
When Terror is Only “Terror”
When is a terror attack not a terror attack but just a "terror attack?" September 11, of course that's a terror attack - no dispute...
Divided Matzah, Divided People: The Secret of the Afikoman
Afikoman For children, it is the highlight of the seder. Over the years they discovered that because the seder could not be concluded until this...
Israel on the Offensive
For many it has long been a given, for others a progressive journey of discovery and others still a startling and sudden realization. Whatever the...
Samantha Power Clarifies Her Comments on Israel
In a column last week I shared my disappointment in discovering that one of the people whose thought and books have been a formative influence...
Judaism & Marketing: Evolution, Not Revolution
We are living in precarious times. Between the economy and the hectic pace of day-to-day life, everything seems to present daily challenges. Balance is a...
Israel Under Siege: Is It Different This Time?
I haven't written about Israel for a while, partly because I've been uncertain about what I want to say. A picture on the front page of...
Hizballah Takes Aim at Tel Aviv
Hizballah plans to empty its storehouse of 40,000 missiles in a new war with Israel, including sending 100 missiles per day toward Tel Aviv, U.S....
Retraction, Renunciation, Rejection, Repudiation: Reconsidering the Goldstone Report
At the close of a week heavy with international change, natural and political trauma, as the American nation awaited news about its economy and its...
Goldstone’s Apology and Samantha Power’s Problem with Israel
On my recent lecture tour in South Africa the subject of Judge Richard Goldstone came up quite a lot. Whether it was the dinner in...
The Goldstone Mea Culpa
One would surely have expected that when Richard Goldstone felt impelled to belatedly retract his previous appalling defamation of Israel, he might have selected a...
Netanyahu Demands Cancellation of Goldstone Report
At his April 3, 2011 cabinet meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the Washington Post printed remarks of Judge Richard Goldstone, saying "There are very few...
Reagan’s Real Legacy
As Prepared for Delivery to the Leadership Program of the Rockies—March 11, 2011—Aurora, Colorado I want to talk about how we use our conservative principles;...
Nicole Krauss and the Fascist State of Israel
To understand nothing about Israel and to be certain that you understand everything better than the natives is, perhaps, one of the least admirable traits...
