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Op-Ed: Kristallnacht in Munich, then and now
Kristallnacht came early to Munich in 1938, but seven decades later a Jewish community has reinvented itself, with allegiance to the past and promise for the future, an American Jewish Committee official writes. Read more »
Op-Ed: Israel must break growing stranglehold of religion
The increased stranglehold of religion on Israel has a dire impact on the nation, write the leaders of Hiddush, a new advocacy organization that aims to ensure equal civil and political rights for all regardless of religion. Read more »
Op-Ed: Growing Birthright Israel should be a no-brainer
With a recently released study showing that Birthright Israel trips represent a truly effective way to change the course of Jewish history, increasing the number of participants should become a top priority of Jewish philanthropy, write Miriam and Sheldon Adelson. Read more »
Op-Ed: What Israelis need to know about intermarriage in North America
The CEO of InterfaithFamily.com writes that helping Israelis to learn not to think and talk about intermarriage as the equivalent of assimilation will contribute to increased Jewish identity and connection among intermarried families -- something that is of vital interest to the Jewish communities of both North America and Israel. Read more »
Op-Ed: Government must help save domestic violence programs
Efforts to end domestic violence and aid its victims have more hard times ahead, but Congress and state governments can help by prioritizing the life-saving emergency services for the most vulnerable, writes the president of the National Council of Jewish Women. Read more »
Op-Ed: What’s really on trial in the Goldstone Report?
Reports like the Goldstone report not only harm nation states in the war against terror, but harm the prospects for peace in the Middle East, writes the spokesman for the Consulate General of Israel in New York. Read more »
Op-Ed: Support for Israel comes in a multitude of voices
The pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy camp can serve as a bridge between the American Jewish and Israeli communities at a time when such a bridge is sorely needed, says the incoming CEO of the New Israel Fund. Read more »
Op-Ed: AIPAC, J Street or JDate?
A former deputy national security adviser in Israel says the U.S.-Israel relationship has largely had one voice in Washington: AIPAC. And it doesn't get any better. Read more »
Op-Ed: On Jerusalem, the U.S. still indulges Palestinian fantasies
President Obama must recognize that the seat of government for Israel is in Jerusalem and the seat of government for the Palestinians is in Ramallah -- and announce that he is placing American diplomats at offices in both those cities and only those cities -- writes one-time presidential appointee Cheryl Halpern. Read more »
Op-Ed: Time for straight talk about assimilation
Rather than view a killed Masa ad on assimilation solely as a dragon successfully slain, the Jewish community should see it as an opportunity to ask tough questions about the best ways to draw in disengaged Jews, Jewish Theological Seminary professor Jack Wertheimer writes. Read more »
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- Jerusalem mayor: U.S., Israel should improve communication
- Norway drops war crimes case against Israel
- Palestinians knock down portion of security wall
- Evangelical leader to speak at Birthright Next event
- Obama, Netanyahu to meet, Israeli newspaper reports
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Attacks on J Street as parley approaches
