Universities are building new academic bridges to Israel in an effort to catch up with their students’ already connected imaginations and passions, writes the president and CEO of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.
The founder of the ZAKA Rescue and Recovery Organization equates the violence of some haredi Orthodox Jews against innocents to terrorism and calls upon leaders — in the community and elsewhere — to make their voices heard in deploring their actions.
With remarks by a Jerusalem mufti echoing a controversy from the World War II era, the co-author of an upcoming book about Herbert Hoover and the Jewish vote says all sides would do well to keep in mind what 1948 says about the potential electoral impact of Middle East politics.