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OP-ED: The Prisoner Release – the right thing at the wrong time

By SHERWIN POMERANTZ

Sunday’s vote by Israel’s Cabinet to approve the release of 104 Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands may have been the right move in the context of the re-started peace talks, but definitely at the...

OP-ED: U.S. and E.U. – Bad Cop and Worse Cop

By MARK LANGFAN

Some Israeli ministers are in shock at the European Union (E.U.) diktat attempting to impose the 1949 ceasefire line, also known as the  pre-1967 lines, as the proposed Israeli/Palestinian Authority border. The ministers, including Prime Minister Netanyau,...

OP-ED: Polish democracy may make missteps, but its goal of good Jewish relations remains clear

By TED TAUBE

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — For the past decade, the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture and I myself, as Poland’s honorary consul in the Bay Area, have been involved directly in furthering the renaissance of Jewish...

OP-ED: Kosher slaughter ban shows Poland has a Jewish problem

By LAWRENCE GROSSMAN

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, has a Jewish problem.

In a painful affront to the Jewish community, it recently defeated a government initiative to reinstate the legality of kosher...

OP-ED: Countering anti-Semitism during the month of Ramadan

By RASHAD HUSSEIN

WASHINGTON (JTA) — During Ramadan, Muslim communities around the world experience a month of fasting, devotion and increased consciousness of their faith. They also remember those who are suffering around the world and seek an end to...

OP-ED: Iran-Argentina pact erases idea of justice for AMIA victims

By EDUARDO KOHN

(JTA) — On July 18, the victims of the AMIA bombing will be killed again. Their families will feel the chilly winter and the cold reality of the chain of agreements made between Iran and Argentina that...

The Palestinian economy: why we should care

By ALAN ELSNER

A new report from the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University paints an alarming picture of a Palestinian economy on the West Bank on the verge of collapse.

The report, by Ephraim Lavie and Yitzhak Gal,...

The shanda goes to college

For decades we have heard of the horrors of abused children who have come forward to accuse their alleged pedophiles of unspeakable acts. The highest levels of the Catholic Church have been rocked by these kinds of accusations. Coverups designed...

OP-ED: Jewish values dictate protecting gay marriage

By EDGAR M. BRONFMAN

NEW YORK (JTA) — In the early 1970s, while I was CEO of the Seagram Company, public dialogue about gay rights was largely nonexistent in corporate America. Social discourse had not yet even evolved into the...

OP-ED: How the U.S. benefits from alliance with Israel

By DAVID POLLOCK and MICHAEL EISENSTADT

WASHINGTON (JTA) — When two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital found themselves well prepared for the aftermath.

Two years earlier, Israeli medical...