http://jta.org/news/ en moster@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-08T20:17:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/26/1008726/sharanskys-manifesto http://jta.org/site/sharanskys-manifesto/#When:13:40:00Z Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky shares his views on the shortcomings and truths in the way Diaspora and Israeli Jews look at each other: Featured 2009-10-26T13:40:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/21/1008640/tel-aviv-subway-where-art-thou http://jta.org/site/tel-aviv-subway-where-art-thou/#When:15:14:00Z How is it that Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial, doesn’t have a subway? asks Aluf Benn in Ha’aretz: 2009-10-21T15:14:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/21/1008639/jews-in-palestine http://jta.org/site/jews-in-palestine/#When:15:00:01Z A columnist for Lebanon’s Daily Star proposes an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in which Jews who refuse to leave the West Bank would become citizens of Palestine, with the right to leave and immigrate to Israel whenever they choose. Bill Glucroft writes: 2009-10-21T15:00:01-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/21/1008638/ariel-sharons-twilight-zone http://jta.org/site/ariel-sharons-twilight-zone/#When:14:54:00Z Too healthy to die, too injured to rule, Israel’s legendary warrior and former prime minister lives in a comatose limbo—just like the Middle East peace process, writes Lynn Sherr in The Daily Beast: Featured 2009-10-21T14:54:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/20/1008627/human-rights-watch-responds http://jta.org/site/human-rights-watch-responds/#When:21:17:00Z Human Rights Watch responds to HRW founder Robert Bernstein’s critique in The New York Times of the group’s treatment of Israel: 2009-10-20T21:17:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/19/1008585/bolton-us-should-quit-un-human-rights-council http://jta.org/site/bolton-us-should-quit-un-human-rights-council/#When:14:34:00Z Last Friday’s endorsement by the U.N. Human Rights Council of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war shows that it was a mistake for the United States to join the flawed council, writes John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in The Wall Street Journal. 2009-10-19T14:34:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/19/1008583/goldstones-motivation http://jta.org/site/goldstones-motivation/#When:14:11:00Z Richard Goldstone explains the motivation behind his U.N. inquiry into the Gaza war. Featured 2009-10-19T14:11:00-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/19/1008556/in-do-over-on-goldstone-human-rights-council-ignores-hamas http://jta.org/site/in-do-over-on-goldstone-human-rights-council-ignores-hamas/#When:12:02:00Z The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva took aim at Israel in a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. But the move was rebuked by the report's author, Richard Goldstone, over the lack of condemnation of Hamas. Frontpage Sub Headline, Politics, Middle East 2009-10-19T12:02:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/10/16/1008554/follow-up-adl-tracking-nazi-comparisons-in-health-care-debate http://jta.org/site/follow-up-adl-tracking-nazi-comparisons-in-health-care-debate/#When:17:06:00Z Yesterday, I cited New York magazine’s story, "The right calls Obama Hitler. Why aren’t Jewish groups making more noise?" 2009-10-16T17:06:00-05:00 http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/16/1008547/abbas-the-collaborator http://jta.org/site/abbas-the-collaborator/#When:14:29:00Z The Israeli government turned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from a partner into collaborator—and in the process they’re killing him, writes Yossi Sarid in Ha’aretz: 2009-10-16T14:29:00-05:00