Friday, April 19th 2024 |
By ALAN SMASON, Editor
Senator Cory Booker (D – N.J.) has been touted as a possible Democratic Party standard-bearer, a man who might follow in the steps of Barack Obama as a progressive, charismatic leader capable of taking back the White House from the Republicans.
But when Booker, the former mayor of Newark, posed this past week here in New Orleans with what he thought was a sign that pushed...
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) — In ancient times, people looked to portents involving the heavens and earthbound events in order to try to understand the baffling world in which we live, as well as to discern the will of their Creator. In the 21st century—armed with science, sophisticated technology and mass communication, we’re much smarter than that. Instead of pondering the stars, we now expect the fall of a...
By ALAN SMASON, Editor
Last Saturday night, there was both personal and public vindication of my efforts as the editor of the Crescent City Jewish News. The judging of three articles I had written in my capacity as editor were not only deemed good enough to be in competition with those of my journalistic peers, but one, in particular, was deemed worthy to be selected as one of the top...
By ROB ESHMAN
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Jonathan Gold was more than a food writer. Every obituary will tell you that, and so would he.
“Food is a way to look at the world,” he told me once. “I mean, everybody eats.”
Gold, who died July 21 at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer, leveraged that truism into a career that not only established him as one of the great...
By ARIEL PICARD
JERUSALEM (JTA) — There are many problems with the Nationality Law nearing passage as the Knesset wraps up its summer session on Sunday, not the least of which is that there is no reason for it. No Israelis challenge the Jewishness of the state, thus the law is unnecessary.
Unfortunately, something unnecessary can also be harmful. The language of the bill, which is officially called “Basic Law: Israel as the...
By CINDY SHER
CHICAGO (JTA) — My sister was married on a beautiful summer day many years ago.
Those of us in the wedding party took pictures in a garden before the ceremony. As maid of honor, one of my duties was to hold up the train of her dress so it wouldn’t drag through the dirt. But there was a lot of dirt, and the dress was soiled despite...
By MORDECHAI HARELI
(JNS.org) — I know there is a dialogue taking place between the Israeli and Polish governments over Poland’s recently enacted Holocaust law, but a few historical points must not be ignored.
Last week’s joint statement from the prime ministers of Israel and Poland notes that “the governments of Poland and Israel call for a return to civil and respectful dialogue in the public discourse.”
It is important to me to...
By INA DAVIS and MADDIE FIREMAN, Special to the CCJN
The retirement of Justice Kennedy bodes ill for the future of many issues the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) cares deeply about and that affect all Americans and others living in our country. From reproductive rights to civil rights, from immigration to civil liberties and to many other matters of urgent concern, we have reason to be alarmed about...
By RABBI JILL JACOBS
NEW YORK (JTA) — Last week, I visited McAllen, Texas, with a group of clergy — including 10 rabbis — to bear witness to the situation on the border, where new policies are forcing the detention and separation of families and the refusal to hear asylum claims from victims of gang and domestic violence. These practices violate both international refugee conventions signed by the United States, and basic...
(JTA) — On June 10, 2002, Charles Krauthammer delivered the Distinguished Rennert Lecture upon receiving the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies. Below is an excerpt from the lecture titled “He Tarries: Jewish Messianism and the Oslo Peace.”
In the 1990s, America slept and Israel dreamed.
The United States awoke on Sept. 11, 2001. Israel awoke in September 2000.
Like the left and like the...
