NEW YORK (JTA) — The recent Op-Ed championing human rights in Iran was very compelling but for two facts: It was co-authored by two of Israel’s greatest advocates, and they published it in JTA, a Jewish media...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last Friday’s Iranian presidential election was fraught with fraud and fear — candidates vetted for their loyalty to the Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guards, the press muzzled by the imprisonment...
NEW YORK (JTA) — For my Bar Mitzvah, my parents got me a laptop. For what I searched for on it, they got me a shrink. CyberSitter informed my computer-savvy parents that their son was searching gay...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — What could Goebbels have done with 140 characters? The question, disturbing as it might sound, can no longer be approached only as theoretical.
As the arch-propagandist of Nazism, Joseph Goebbels spread the demonic messages...
On Friday of last week Gideon Levy, a columnist and member of the editorial board of the generally left-leaning Ha’aretz newspaper here in Israel was verbally and physically attacked while walking in the Carmel Market in Tel...
In a March 9, 2013 Jerusalem Post op-ed title Narrowing the Gap between American and Israeli Jews, I presented some thoughts about how to forge closer bonds between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora to ensure that...
NEW YORK (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is correct to describe a new proposal by the Arab League to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as “a very big step forward.” Yet there will be...
At an Independence Day reception for foreign diplomats, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of Israel’s desire for peace with the Palestinians. “Peace will be based on the principle of two states for two peoples,” he said. “This...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — It’s that time of year, when Jewish institutions pull out their 2013-14 calendars and fill them with events. Many of the programs are very good, with clever names and slick marketing: Jews and...
