As much as everyone is talking about Jewish/African-American relations these days, The Jerusalem Post blog presents an interesting new angle. Maybe Jewish/African-American relations in fact isn't as critical an issue this election cycle as everyone believes. Maybe the real issue is a reconciliation of Jewish and...
Despite the controversial prisoner swap two weeks ago and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ongoing trial, this has been a relatively quiet summer of Israeli news coverage in American papers. Surely this is because of the ongoing, if shaky, cease-fire. Although we all have our own opinions...
Placing his hand on the walls of the Kotel during his short visit to Jerusalem, Sen. Barack Obama shared his hopeful spirits with the people of Israel. In Sderot, the Amar family, the same host family to welcome Sen. John McCain back in March, was...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-oEOPUeEE] Guardian writer James Montague has done some serious homework in laying out the possibility of a 2018 World Cup hosted by both Israel and Palestine (see video above). Israeli filmmaker Eytan Heller and the international NGO OneVoice are behind the bid, which proposes games in Ramallah,...
Controversy has erupted regarding Sen. Barack Obama's recent trip to Israel, because an Israeli newspaper, Ma'ariv, published the note Obama put in the Kotel. Many people, including the staff of Yedihot Aharonot, a newspaper that also obtained Obama's note but decided not to publish it, feel...
Next time you place judgment on your old Sunday School friend who decided to get inked in college, or find it oxymoronic that your friend's father has a Jewish star tattooed on his forearm, think again. The New York Times published an article this week...
We are getting closer and closer to the Beijing Olympics next month, where all the Jews whose baseball teams have nothing left to play for will finally have summer sports worth watching again. In order to get you ready, we will have periodic updates on...
Perhaps you heard the vulgar story News of the World published a while back about Formula One chief Max Mosley—the son of British fascist Oswald Mosley, who was a friend of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s—and a nefarious orgy in which the participants purportedly play...
As Jews, we have a responsibility to deny any future genocide. That's why many Jewish groups applauded the arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadvic. Now it's up to the Hague to fulfill the justice due. Frum Satire wonders what is more Jewish: the bagel or...
Not long after Tuesday's bulldozer attack, an Orthodox Jewish mob went after two Palestinians after a store dispute in Jerusalem, according to Ynet and The Jerusalem Post. Click "more" to read excerpts from these stories. Ynet has this first-person perspective from the man who shielded the...