Posts Tagged: Jewish
Obama’s New Anti-Israel Advisory Crew
Recently, President Obama consulted a group of nine journalists on Mid-East policy - some among this crew are downright Anti-Israel, and thus unrepresentative of overall...
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...
Documenting ‘Hourly’ Arab Terror
When Yehudit Tayar's weekly email arrives in my inbox, I feel a sensation of dread in the pit of my stomach. While I enjoy hearing...
The Defriender: A Short Mother’s Day Film (VIDEO)
This Mother's day wouldn't be the same if we didn't find a way to scoff at the hilarious and ridiculous social age that we live...
Palestinian Authority Rejects Netanyahu’s Proposal to Renew Peace Talks
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to resume negotiations without preconditions on Sunday, prolonging the impasse in the peace process, Israel...
Where the Wild Things Were
Where will the wild things go now? More than children's literature lost out with the death of Maurice Sendak, a world-famous artist and...
One Year Later: The Case of Yanky Ostreicher, Held in Bolivia Without Charge
Yanky Ostreicher , an American-Jewish citizen from New York state was arrested in Bolivia nearly one year ago and has been held by federal authorities...
New Brooklyn Gallery Features $175,000 Hassidic Art
A new fine art gallery in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn will display work by Hassidic artists. Although the Betzalel Gallery will focus on...
Israeli Medical Advances to Showcase at BioMed 2012
Tel Aviv will be hosting the BioMed 2012 conference May 21-23 to display advancements in the biotechnology industry, including in stem-cell research. Sixty...
Israeli Could Become World Chess Champion
Boris Gelfand, originally from Belarus, could become the first Israeli to win the World Chess Federation championship. He will attempt to defeat the...
How Not To Succeed
The Economist of May 5th has a fascinating piece on why the Mormons, a relatively small USA religious sect, with a very strange history,...
The Rights of Indigenous People and the Rest of Us
In early 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would sign the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Now the U.N. wants...
The Myths of Past Middle East Peace Negotiations
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interviewed last Friday by CNN's Christiana Ammanpour and sought to give his audience the impression that ...
