Community Voices: Fayyad Resigned–But Did He?
Salam Fayyad was 55 years old when they found him six years ago. "They" are the secretary of state and the European donors who wanted...
From the Back of the Bus to Segregated Beaches at Brandeis University
This weekend marked the fifth annual Gender and Human Rights lecture and conference at Brandeis University. Named for Diane (Dina) Markowicz, a student with a...
Israel: Secularizing, But Not Secular
About 15 years ago, the late writer and journalist Israel Segal, who left the ultra-Orthodox world at a young age, provided a pessimistic account of...
Women Warned Not to Say Kaddish at the Western Wall
The Jerusalem police commissioner sent a letter to Women of the Wall today warning that it would enforce the law prohibiting women's public prayer at...
The View from Istanbul: Why Iran Might Be a Threat
This was a very old plan. Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, communists diligently planned to establish a Marxist state in one or more...
Omar Meets Omer
Today, there's more proof that The Wire--the obscure HBO series about Baltimore's drug dealers, cops, newspaper reporters that one day will get a lot of...
Jews and Booze
Professor Marni Davis (University of Georgia) got the idea to write her Ph.D. thesis –subsequently a book – on the relationship between American Jews and...
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The New York Times reports that Israel "moved closer to its goal of energy independence on Sunday as natural gas from a large offshore field...
The View from Istanbul: Peace Always Wins
People who claim to have “won” a war are lying. There are no winners in war. War may seem to have brought victory to one...
Most Americans Support Immigration Reform With a Path to Citizenship, Survey Shows
The majority of Americans support immigration reform with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to the findings of a new survey released by...
Passover in Bejing: Does Sichuan Food Count As Bitter Herbs?
As Passover approaches, we all recall that we are strangers in a strange land. And boy, are we. As expats living in Beijing for the...
The View from Istanbul: Why Radical Propaganda Hurts Everyone
The mainstream media love fundamentalists. Why? Because they are such effective tools.
Talk of peace or peaceful people seldom appear in the media. Bloodshed, hateful talk,...