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Sharansky’s manifesto
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky shares his views on the shortcomings and truths in the way Diaspora and Israeli Jews look at each other: Read more »
Tel Aviv subway, where art thou?
How is it that Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial, doesn’t have a subway? asks Aluf Benn in Ha’aretz: Read more »
Jews in Palestine
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: Read more »
Ariel Sharon’s twilight zone
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: Read more »
Human Rights Watch responds
Human Rights Watch responds to HRW founder Robert Bernstein’s critique in The New York Times of the group’s treatment of Israel: Read more »
Bolton: U.S. should quit U.N. Human Rights Council
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. Read more »
Goldstone’s motivation
Richard Goldstone explains the motivation behind his U.N. inquiry into the Gaza war. Read more »
In do-over on Goldstone, Human Rights Council ignores Hamas
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. Read more »
Follow up: ADL tracking Nazi comparisons in health-care debate
Yesterday, I cited New York magazine’s story, "The right calls Obama Hitler. Why aren’t Jewish groups making more noise?" Read more »
Abbas the collaborator
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: Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 11/07/09 @ 10:12PM EDT
- President Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations' General Assembly.
- The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.
- The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper.
- The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
- Obama cancels GA appearance
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Iran may have tested secret nuclear warhead design
- Report: U.S. stopped Israeli attack on weapons ship
- U.S. sees Abbas in continuing role
- Groups blast UNGA Goldstone vote
- Israel delivers swine flu vaccines to Palestinian Authority
- Abbas announces he won’t run for re-election
- 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
