CAP's "God in Politics" Forum
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
The Center for American Progress in Washington, DC hosted a forum earlier this week on “God and Politics: Examining Religion in the...
Embracing Rosh Hodesh
By Scott Fox
I love Hanukkah: the presents, wintertime, dreidels, candle lighting. I love all of it. I was born on the fourth day of Hanukkah...
Beit Shemesh Rhapsody
Does Freddie Mercury have the power to heal religious and sociopolitical tensions? A group of 250 women and girls in Beit Shemesh tested the premise...
Israel Still Has the Power to Change
By Scott Fox
The beginning of 2012 means the nearing of elections in Israel and the United States. In both, incumbents have surprisingly maintained a strong...
The Iranian Question: Nuclear Power or Nuclear Warheads?
By Leigh Nusbaum
Watching what’s happening from the Middle East to the Midwest over the past few weeks, it seems that everyone has an opinion about...
The Case for Alan Gross
by Maddie Ulanow
Alan Gross is a 60-year-old resident of Potomac, Maryland, a quiet Washington suburb with a thriving Jewish community. A father of two and...
Should We Remove the "Israel Filter" When Studying the Middle East? It's Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syria, particularly when...
Should We Remove the “Israel Filter” When Studying the Middle East? It’s Worth Trying.
By Leigh Nusbaum
A few weeks ago, my class on the contemporary politics in the Middle East was discussing the domestic future of Syria, particularly when...
The Long and Winding Road to Interfaith Dialogue
by Steven Philp
While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that day in 2001, small groups of...
Israel Takes on Wikimania
by Charles Kopel
“Education is a human right,” declared Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner to an applauding crowd of six hundred last week in the...
Going for Gold at the Jewish Olympics
Since 1932, the Maccabiah Games have drawn the finest Jewish athletes to participate in a wide array of events.
Reflecting on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
by Symi Rom-Rymer
One hundred years ago today, 146 immigrant women, primarily Jewish and Italian, died while trying to escape a fire that raged through the...