Burma Peace Talks Begin: A Letter From the Jewish Community
Peace talks between the Myanamar government and ethnic rebels from the south of the country kicked off Monday, as fighting between the two sides intensified...
I am a Muslim Turk and I Condemn the Jewish Holocaust: Guest Blogger Aylin Kocaman on Altruism in Nature
I am a Muslim Turk and I Condemn the Jewish Holocaust
By Aylin Kocaman
The world watched the slaughter of 6 million Jews during the Second World...
Film Review: “The Jews and the Longest Kiss in History”
MOMENT’S FILM REVIEW: “The Jews and the Longest Kiss in History”
By Samuel Warshaw
Frederique Cifuentes Morgan, a London-based, Parisian-born filmmaker, in Sudan to make a film...
Watch out DC: Dave Barry is Coming to Town
Fans of Dave Barry in Washington D.C. are in for a treat: the Pulitzer-Prize winning political satirist will be at Politics and Prose tomorrow night...
Divestment Comes to Brooklyn
An online petition is demanding that the political science department at Brooklyn College rescind its sponsorship of an anti-Israel divestment event.
The campaign has received wide...
Lawsuits Challenge Obama’s Birth Control Provision
The New York Times today reported about a spike in the number of lawsuits that are challenging a provision in President Obama's new health care...
Happy Birthday to the Egyptian Revolution
Egyptians today marked two years since the start of the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. But is the country better off now...
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day: Guest Blogger on the Irony of Time
By Yehuda Rothstein
I grew up in an Ultra-Orthodox or haredi community in upstate New York. This community could be considered a refugee colony because it...
Election Results Are In: How Will the Next Government Bridge Israel’s Religious-Secular Divide?
Yesh Atid, the newly formed political party headed by veteran journalist Yair Lapid was the surprise winner in yesterday’s elections in Israel. A centrist party...
Guest Blogger on Morsi, Jews, Pigs and Apes
By Aylin Kocaman
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s new head of state., called the Jews in 2010 “sons of apes and pigs”
Morsi addresses Jews in this way in...
New Poll Explains Why Obama Won the Jewish Vote
The majority of American Jewish voters believes that government regulation of business is necessary to protect the public interest and expressed a desire to reduce...
Gilad Shalit to Lone Soldiers: “I Admire Your Courage.”
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was abducted by Hamas and returned in a 2011 prisoner exchange, met with lone soldiers in Jerusalem today, calling...