Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel: Megiddo, an ancient city overseeing the mountain pass from Mesopotamia across the Jezreel Valley, supposedly saw some of history's fiercest battles. Indeed, many Christians expect an even bigger conflagration there, as the site is also called "Armageddon," a variant...
Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel: Jerusalem's had work done. Well, not the Old City, which changes little from day t--- er, century to century. In the Old City, it can take 500 years for a new layer of architecture and culture...
Jewish Rep. Steve Cohen—he of the House resolution condemning slavery and Jim Crow laws that we covered recently—has overcome his opponent Nikki Tinker and her advertising attacks to win the Democratic primary in Tennessee's Ninth District. The district's tiny Republican contingent means the primary victory...
When we discovered that David Duke, the Holocaust denier, former KKK grand wizard, and anti-Semite extraordinaire, and the White Nationalist online community Stormfront picked up on an article in the current issue of Moment Magazine entitled "When Money Grows On Jewish Trees," our...
The Agriprocessor, Inc., saga continues. But this time it looks like something positive has emerged from the fracas. The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has announced its policy for the ethical hekhsher tsedek, which will be placed on foods deriving from companies complying with a...
You have no doubt heard that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, embattled in a corruption investigation and still taking heat from the 2006 Lebanon War, announced he will step down yesterday. What do you think? Is this a good thing for Israel? Who should take Olmert's...
When Dinko Sakić, the last living Holocaust concentration camp director, died last week, Jewish organizations and others hoped that his funeral would not be used as an opportunity for far-right groups to celebrate the actions of this mass murderer. Instead, The Simon Wiesenthal Center and...
Just when you thought we were finished with Jewish/African-American issues...
Israel will get a radar system to bolster her short-range missile defenses, according to CNN.com and Ha'aretz. Says the latter: Signaling willingness to focus on defensive measures, [Israeli Defense Minister Ehud] Barak said he had secured the Pentagon's agreement to post a powerful radar, known as...
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Kotel rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has sent Sen. Barack Obama a letter apologizing for the publication of the note the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee left in the Kotel last week: "As the rabbi of the Western Wall and the...