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OP-ED: On Bari Weiss, Franklin Foer & the values that sustain our people

 

By DAVID SUISSA

 — Are Jews who like President Donald Trump’s policies on Israel making a deal with the devil?

Last Friday on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” New York Times op-ed editor and writer Bari Weiss made this...

OP-ED: Why Mike Pence’s prayer with ‘Christian’ Rabbi Loren Jacobs was so insulting to Jews

By RABBI HARRY PELL

In the summer of 2003, I was a chaplain candidate in the U.S. Navy, training to serve the religious needs of the Navy’s fighting men and women. There were about 40 of us in my 

OP-ED: The unthinkable becomes reality

The events of Saturday, October 27, are still raw and unsettling. Within a few hours, we knew the face and name of hate. It took almost 24 hours before we would learn the names and faces of his 11 victims...

OP-ED: Throwing Megyn Kelly under the bus

By ALAN SMASON

It would seem that holidays and NBC’s Megyn Kelly don’t necessarily agree with one another. A few years ago during the holiday season when she was still a Fox News host, Kelly infamously proclaimed that “Santa is...

OP-ED: Why are pro-Israel voices joining the whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi?

By RON KAMPEAS   WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two weeks after he disappeared, Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Washington Post columnist, is getting his reputation run through a wringer, and some pro-Israel voices are joining the...

OP-ED: Will U.S. continue Faustian bargain with Saudis?

By MITCHELL BARD

For decades, many in the United States looked the other way as the Saudis undermined U.S. values and interests. Then the Saudis committed an unpardonable sin that merited the media’s attention — they made a journalist disappear. Without the media uproar, it’s...

OP-ED: The Price of Saudi Friendship

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

 — In one sense, the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi after he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week is pretty much business as usual for the Riyadh regime. Saudi Arabia is a...

OP-ED: This is the gravest threat to the future of liberal Judaism

By RABBI AMMIEL HIRSCH

NEW YORK (JTA) — Something is rotten in the state of liberalism that threatens the future of progressive Judaism.

Jews who call themselves “liberal” join organizations seeking to boycott, divest and sanction Israel in disproportional numbers....

OP-ED: The Supreme Court vs. Our Souls

By ALAN SMASON

To many people, what’s at stake with the Judge Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court is nothing less than the future of our nation. Will we be a society that protects its weakest and most threatened...

OP-ED: The world laughed at Trump, but Iran and its enablers should not

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

(JNS.org) — The international community made no secret of its contempt for U.S. President Donald Trump when he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly this week. So it was little surprise that when the president uttered...