Q&A: Sochi 2014, Russia’s Gays and the Jewish Response
Yelena Goltsman, of RUSA LGBT, a support group for Russian-speaking gay people in the United States, on Russia’s anti-gay policies and the Sochi Olympics.
Q&A: Quebec Charter of Values Controversy
In the Canadian province of Quebec, religious groups have been up in arms over the past several months regarding a controversial piece of secularism legislation...
The Environment: A New Prospect for Peace in the Middle East
By Lucille Marshall
As Israelis and Palestinians embark on yet another round of negotiations this year, Shahar Sadeh, a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute,...
Israel’s Negev Bedouin Challenge and the Exploitation of Human Rights
By Emily Ziedman
The relationship between the state of Israel and the Bedouin population in the Negev is extremely complex, and is the subject of intense...
Q&A: Middle East Scholar Aaron David Miller on Syria and Israel
The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain reached a UN Security Council resolution this week to compel Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons stock...
Pilgrimage to Uman
Almost 200 years after Rebbe Nachman’s death, his followers flock to a once-closed Soviet town to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
by Nadine Epstein
I’m on a bus to...
A House Divided
Following the end of apartheid, students living in the dorms of the University of the Free State in South Africa heartily embraced integration. At first it went well, then the students chose to resegregate. What caused social progress to surge forward and then reverse course?
From Iraq With Love
by Sala Levin
Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a kettle of culinary confluence. Perhaps the...
Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?
“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...
South African Government Adopts BDS Measures
The African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa and the party of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, has voted in its annual conference to...
Clifford D. May: The Mirage of the Arab Spring
The Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab world.
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So...
Amy E. Schwartz: Turkey: Where Doth Erdogan Lead?
Turkish Jews—like everyone else—ponder Islam’s growing presence in a secular country.