Posts Tagged: Jews
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 ...
Anti-Semitism & Its Antidotes
Tonight I begin teaching an eight-week course called "Anti-Semitism and its Antidotes: From Talk to Action" as a part of a Limmud-inspired, cross-communal...
Abbas Denies Jerusalem’s Jewish History
Palestinian Authroity President Mahmoud Abbas recently called Israel's presence in Jerusalem "Judaization," accusing Israel of stealing "cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian religious history," Palestinian...
Polanski to Bring “Dreyfus Affair” to the Big Screen
The iconic and controversial French-Polish director Roman Polanski is about to bring The Dreyfus Affair, one of the most famous cases of anti-Semitism in modern...
U.S. Court Upholds New York “Kosher Law”
A U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that New York's "Kosher Act" does not violate the constitution, upholding a previous ruling by a lower court. The...
Drake and Jones, Hollywood’s New Jewish Power Couple?
Drake, who made no secret of his love for Judaism in a recent hip-hop video, is rumored to be in a relationship with another famous...
New Kadima Chairman Blasts Livni for Failure
Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Kadima party's new chairmain who recently entered a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud, said he...
Books Vilifying Jews in Canada Produced by Iran
Law enforcement has discovered that textbooks vilifying Jews used by a Toronto Islamic school were produced with Iranian support. The books contrast Islam...
“Rabbi to the Diplomats” Honored by South Korean President in Seoul
Arthur Schneier, the "Rabbi to the Diplomats", was in South Korea recently following a personal invitation from President Lee Myung Bak. "President Lee and First Lady,...
Congress Mulls New Restrictions to Egypt, PA Aid
The House of Representatives' Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee passed a $40.1 billion budget for 2013 with new stipulations for U.S. funds that go to Egypt and...
Social Media for the Observant Jew
On a Friday evening, I tweeted three times and posted three Facebook updates at three separate times -- and I wasn't even online. Tools like...
Privileged to Serve the Nation and Protect Its Land
One of the key issues that almost brought on early elections in Israel is the exemption from the mandatory draft that certain political powers wish...
Noah Meets Katrina in “Watershed”
How difficult is it to imagine a truly devastating catastrophe? Will calamity come from an instantaneous, even violent change in the landscape, or a slow transformation...
