Accept Friend Request?
by Amanda Walgrove
It's Complicated between Israel and Egypt. After Israel Unfriended Turkey last year, she has only had one longstanding friend remaining in the Middle...
NGOs Fail Palestinian Women at the UN
By Paula Kweskin
In April 2010, a 32-year-old woman was shot to death in a town in the northern Gaza Strip. Several men, including her father,...
Jews Support Both Life and Choice
By Steven Philp
On Friday the House of Representatives passed a measure to suspend $330 million of Title X federal funding for Planned Parenthood on the...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
Let My People Vote!
By Steven Philp
Egypt may lack a president, but it is not bereft of direction. Meeting two primary demands of pro-democracy protestors, Egyptian military leaders have...
The South Sudanese Are ‘The Jews of Our Time’
By Charles Jacobs
The stars in Wanyjok’s sky blazed so bright it seemed as though God himself had switched on the lights in the vast blackness....
The Combative Pacifism and Poetry of Grace Paley
by Amanda Walgrove
Grace Paley was a Jewish pacifist accused of having an Irish temper. Armed with a strong Bronx accent and a stronger rhetorical voice,...
A Revolution By Any Other Name
By Niv Elis
For the Czech Republic it was Velvet. For Serbia, it was a Bulldozer. For Iran, it was distinctly Islamic. But nobody has yet...
Czech Out Those Jews: Judaism in the Czech Republic
By Kayla Green
How is it possible to judge the attitude toward Jews in the Czech Republic, a country where Jews have in recent history suffered...
For Israel, Tough Choices on Egypt
By Steven Philp
On Saturday Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a defense of beleaguered Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, on the grounds that his rule has been...
Who Says Jews Don’t Have Soul?
By Beth Kissileff
No one could have predicted thirty years ago that the cantorial school at Hebrew Union College would one day be named for Debbie...
Yoo-hoo, Ms. Rivers!
by Amanda Walgrove
As she’d be the first to joke about, Joan Rivers has tough skin. While her 2010 documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,...