BERKELEY, Calif. (JTA) — A bill being weighed in Congress that would target boycotts of Israel and its settlements is sparking widespread outrage, especially after investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald claimed it “criminalizes free speech.” The post relied...
Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters has spent the last decade disparaging the Jewish state. Labeled an anti-Semite by the Anti-Defamation League, Waters compares Jews to Nazi collaborators and claims that Israel is a “racist apartheid regime” that practices “ethnic...
(JTA) — Last year, I wrote an opinion piece for JTA about a term and a trend few Jews over the age of 30 had ever heard of: intersectionality. Coined in the late 1980s, intersectionality posits that various forms of...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Over the weekend, JTA and others reported on a “blacklist of rabbis” maintained by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. The list contains the names of more than 160 rabbis whom the rabbinate does not trust to...
During my college years there was probably no bigger fan of Pink Floyd than me. I was a longtime devotee of their particular mix of electronic sounds coupled with traditional rock trappings which elevated their unique music...
This Independence Day we in New Orleans have much to be thankful for. Coming off the entire month of June, designated as “Pride Month,” we note that the once hidden and repressed LGBT community has never enjoyed more freedom and...
(JNS.org) — Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word about a new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet have much...
(JTA) — Nazi death marches crippled Mr. Cohen’s knees. The 94-year-old who survived Auschwitz now felt defeated trying to climb the stairs to his walk-up condo. He and his wife of 66 years used...
I always enjoy listening to former ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer discuss U.S. policy because he eruditely expresses the essence of the Arabist point of view. Speaking on a panel at the Association of Israel Studies conference...
(JTA) — The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement has demanded that we all ask ourselves where we stand on questions of climate change, global warming and our collective responsibility for the planet...
