Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, on the roots of Jewish terrorism and what can be done to address it.
President Barack Obama on Friday will keynote a live webcast hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America and the member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
Prison reform is having a legislative moment — a step in the right direction, Jewish organizations say.
“I think that it has much more positive to offer than negative,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. “But we have to keep a careful eye.”
Ally would have been a more effective book if Oren had taken the time to consider the impact of his take-no-prisoners approach, writes Glenn Frankel.
Moment spoke with Ronald Goldfarb, editor of After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age about the USA Freedom Act, what it means, and whether Snowden has yet won his battle for privacy.
